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THE   EAGLE 


A    MAGAZINE 


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MEMBERS    OF    ST    JOHN'S    COLLEGE 


VOL    XVI 

(CONTAINING  NOS.   XC— XCV) 


Cambribge : 

E.  JOHNSON  TRINITY  STREET 

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CONTENTS. 


FrontUpUa  (The  New  Organ  Screen) 

The  InTentor  of  the  Stockingofirame 

Early  Law  and  Custom  of  the  University 

The  Souldeme  Ghost-Story    . 

Romany  .... 

RomaaiGhiU  ,  .  .  . 

A  Gypsy  Ballad 

The  Poet  and  the  Philosopher  in  the  Lake  District 

Express  Trains 

Obituaiy : 

Rev  Canon  F.  C.  Cook   . 

Rev  Dr  L.  Stephenson 

Rev  F.  W.  P.  Collison   . 

Rev  Thomas  Crofts  Ward 

Alexander  William  Potts  LL.D. 
Vexillo  Opns  Est :  Convolabnnt 
Epigram  . 
On  the  Cliff     . 
Coi  1  espondence 
OorChronide  . 
The  Library 
List  of  Subscribers 
Thomas  Ashe  (with  portrait  J 
Notes  from  the  College  Records    . 
The  College  Pictures  at  the  Tudor  Exhibition 
Resident  EsuridUs  Ferias 
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VI  CONTENTS. 

On  the  Broads  in  March  ..... 

Obituary : 

Sir  John  Robert  Townscnd,  Earl  Sydney,  G.C.B.  (with  portrait  J 

Francis  Herbert  Hohnes  .... 

The  Yen  Archdeacon  Jones     .... 

Cambridge  Revisited  ..... 

Landes  Temporis  Acti     ..... 

Lyrics       ....... 

Correspondence  ..... 

Our  Chronicle  .  .  .  . 

The  Library     ...... 

The  New  Organ  Screen  ..... 

The  Choral  Services  in  Chapel       .... 

Notes  from  the  College  Records  (continued) 

On  the  Broads  in  March  {continued) 

*«  Lenten  Indults "  .  .  .  .  . 

"Soapsuds"    ...... 

Portrait  of  Professor  Mayor    .  .  .  .  . 

Ob  tuary ; 

The  Rev  F.  E.  Gretton  .... 

Reuben  Buttress  ..... 

To  Gladstone  Revisiting  Oxford     .... 

Theocritus  ...... 

It  might  have  been  ..... 

A  Summer  Thought  ..... 

Chance  ...... 

A  Lay  of  the  Thames  and  Cam 

Thamesina        ...... 

Correspondence       .  .  .  .   "  . 

Our  Chronicle  ..... 

The  Library  ...... 

Portrait  of  Bishop  Fisher 

The  Portraits  of  Bishop  Fisher       .... 

Bishop  Fisher  and  the  New  Roman  Catholic  Church 
Notes  from  the  College  Records  (continued) 


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The  First  Athletic  Sports  in  Cambridge 
"  A  Pacquet  of  Good  Advice  •* 
Science  at  Sea 
Obituary : 

The  Rev  Canon  Charles  Tower  M.  A. 

The  Rev  Arthur  Beard  M.A. 

The  Rev  John  Davies  M.A.    . 

Theodore  Coppock  M.A.  LL.B.     . 

Wathen  Mark  Wilks  Call  M.A 
The  First  Week  in  June  1890 
Our  Chronicle  . 
The  Library 

The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth 
Johnian  Worthies  at  the  Guelph  Exhibition 
The  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club 
On  Natural  History  and  other  Puris  Naturalibus 
Notes  from  the  College  Records  (continued) 
Obituary : 

Samuel  John  Nathaniel  Greenidge  B.A. 

Sir  James~  Meek 

The  Rev  Canon  Molesworth  M.A. 

The  Rev  John  Howard  Marsden  B.D. 
Chansonnette 
The  Inner  Life 

Sonnets    .... 
Jaffiu* 

Correspondence 
Our  Chronicle  . 
TheLibraiy 

Notes  from  the  College  Records  {continued) 
The  Lake  District  Revisited  . 
Disillusion 

Rain        .... 
A  Johnian  Jacobite 


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Sonatina  Poetica     .              .              .              .              . 

rAOB 

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The  Insularity  of  a  NoQ-conductor               .               « 

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History  of  the  Lady  Margaiet  Boat  Clab 

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Correspondence               .               •               •               • 

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The  Right  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Fowls     4 

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The  Right  Honourable  Lord  Heytesbnxy 

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Sir  Patrick  Colquhoun    .               .               .              . 

.       567 

The  Rev  Vincent  John  Stanton             •               « 

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The  ReT  Canon  Beadon 

.       573 

The  Rev  Samuel  Savage  Lewis             •               • 

575 

The  Rev  Wijliara  James  Kennedy 

.       576 

The  Freshman  and  the  Logic-paper 

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Epigramma  Grsocum              •              •              •              • 

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Our  Chronicle                 .... 

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The  Library            .               .               .               .               . 

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The  Inventor  of  the  Stocking-frame     • 

Early  Law  and  Custom  of  the  UniTcrsity 

The  Sonldcme  Ghoat-Stoty     - 

Romany  -  -  •  - 

RomaniGhiU    -  -  -  • 

A  Gypsy  Ballad 

The  Poet  and  the  Philosopher  in  (he  Lake  District 

Express  Tirains  - 

Ofaitoary: 

Re?  Canon  F.C.  Cook      - 

Rev  Dr  L.  Stephenson      - 

Rev.  F.  W.  P.  CoUison     • 

Rev  Thomas  Crofts  Ward 

Alexander  William  Potts  LL.D. 
Vexillo  Opus  Est :  Convolabunt 
Epigram 
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THE     EAGLE. 


THE  INVENTOR  OF  THE  STOCKING-FRAME. 

jT  a  Public  Meeting,  held  under  the  presidency 
of  the  Mayor  of  Nottingham  in  the  Council 
Chamber  of  that  Borough,  on  November  7,  1888, 
it  was  unanimously  resolved  that  an  effort  should  be 
made  to  raise  a  memorial  to  the  Inventor  of  the 
Stocking-frame,  from  which  was  also  developed  the 
Lace-making  machine.  Moreover,  it  was  agreed  that 
this  memorial  should  take  the  form,  in  the  first  place, 
of  an  Institute,  providing  Reading  Room,  Library,  &c., 
for  the  village  of  Calverton,  of  which  parish  the 
inventor,  the  Rev  William  Lee,  of  St  John's  College, 
Cambridge,  was  Vicar  in  the  year  1589,  the  year  of 
the  invention. 

William  Lee  was  bom  at  Woodborough  in  Notting^ 
hamshire,  and  is  said  to  have  been  heir  to  a  good 
estate.  He  matriculated  as  a  sizar  of  Christ's  College 
in  May  1579.  He  subsequently  migrated  to  St  John's, 
and  as  appears  from  the  University  records  graduated 
as  a  member  of  the  College  in  1582  as  an  ordinary 
B.A.,  not  getting  honours.  He  is  believed  to  have 
taken  his  M.A.  degree  in  1586,  but  on  this  point  there 
is  some  ambiguity  in  the  University  record. 

In  1589,  at  which  time  he  was  curate  of  Calverton, 
about  five  miles  from  Nottingham,  he  invented  the 
Stocking-frame.  One  tradition  is  that  he  was  deeply 
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2  The  Inventor  of  the  Stocking-frame. 

in  love  with  a  young  woman  at  or  near  Calverton; 
but  she,  whenever  he  went  to  visit  her,  seemed  more 
mindful  of  her  knitting*  than  of  his  addresses.  This 
creating  an  aversion  on  his  part  to  knitting  by  hand, 
he  determined  to  contrive  a  machine  which  should  turn 
out  work  enough  to  render  the  coipmon  mode  of 
knittipg  an  unprofitable  employment.       * 

The  origin  of  the  Stocking-frame  forms  the  subject 
of  a  painting  by  Alfred  Elmore  A.R.A.  exhibited  at 
the  Royal  Academy  in  1847.  This  picture,  which  was 
greatly  admired,  has  been  engraved  by  F.  Holl,  and 
a  copy  of  the  engraving  now  hangs  in  the  smaller 
Combination  Room.  In  this  he  is  represented  as 
watching  his  wife  knitting,  and  the  inscription  states 
that  he  was  ^^  expelled  from  the  University  for  marrying 
contrary  to  the  statutes :  having  no  fortune  the  wife  was 
obliged  to  contribute  to  their  joint  support  by  knittings  and 
^  -^  ^  Lee  while  watching  the  movement  of  her  fingers  conceived 

the  idea  of  imitating  these  movements  by  a  machine" 
^  This  prqbably  means  that  he  lost  a  Fellowship  by 

marriage,  but  he  was  never  a  Fellow  of  St  John's. 

In  the  Stocking-weavers'  Hall,  Red  Cross  Street, 
London,  used  to  hang  a  picture  by  Balderston,  repre- 
senting a  man  in  collegiate  costume,  in  the  act  of 
pointing  to  an  iron  stocking-frame  and  addressing  a 
woman  who  is  knitting  with  needles  by  hand.  It 
bore  this  inscription:  "/«  the  year  1589  the  ingenious 
William  Lee  A.M.  of  St  John's  College  Cambridge^ 
devised  the  profitable  art  for  stockings^  [but  being  despised^ 
went  to  France)  yet  of  iron  to  himself  but  to  us  &  to 
others  of  gold ;  in  memory  of  whom  this  is  here  painted*' 
The  original  picture  appears  to  be  now  lost.  An 
engraving  from  it  is  in  the  Gallery  of  Portraits  of 
Inventors,  Discoverers,  and  Introducers  of  useful  arts, 
in  the  Museum  of  the  Commissioners  of  Patents  at 
South  Kensington. 

According  to  the  accepted  view  of  his  subsequent 
history   he  taught  his  brother  James    and  others   to 


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The  Inventor  of  the  Stocking-frame.  3 

"Work  under  him,  and  for  some  time  practised  his  new 
art  at  Calverton.  Here  his  brother  exhibited  the 
machine  at  work  to  Queen  Elizabeth.  His  invention 
was  slighted  and  discouraged  by  his  countrymen- 
Henry  IV  of  France  invited  him  to  settle  in  that 
country,  promising  him  great  rewards,  privileges,  and 
honours.  He  with  nine  workmen  accordingly  estab- 
lished themselves  with  as  many  frames  at  Rouen^ 
where  they  carried  on  the  manufacture  of  stockings 
with  success  and  approbation  under  the  King's  pro- 
tection. The  assassination  of  Henry  IV,  and  the 
troubles  which  ensued  in  France,  disappointed  Lee's 
hopes  of  obtaining  the  promised  privileges,  and  he 
died  of  grief  at  Paris  in  or  soon  after  16 10.  Upon 
his  decease  seven  of  his  workmen  returned  to  England^ 
and  they  with  one  Aston,  of  Calverton,  who  had  been 
his  apprentice,  laid  the  foundation  of  the  manufacture 
in  England. 

The  above  account  is  principally  obtained  from  the 
unpublished  sheets  of  Cooper's  Athenae  CantabrigtenseSi 
Dr  Luard  having  kindly  verified  in  the  University 
Records  the  fact  that  Lee  graduated  at  St  John's. 

There  seems  to  be  reasonable  doubt  as  to  some 
of  these  statements,  and  the  following  extracts  from  a 
letter  of  the  Rev  T.  Woollen  Smith,  Vicar  of  Calverton, 
may  be  of  interest  to  antiquarians.  ' 

"You  are  probably  aware  that  Thoroton,  who  lived 
in  the  neighbourhood,  and  wrote  not  more  than 
60  years  after  the  invention,  states  that  Lee  was  a 
native  of  Calverton.  It  is  a  dispute  which  I  fear  will 
never  be  quite  satisfactorily  settled.  Unfortunately 
the  Registers  do  not  go  quite  back  enough  either 
here  or  at  Woodborough  to  shew  the  Baptism  or 
Marriage  of  Wm.  Lee.  But  in  1565  a  widow  Oliver 
of  Calverton,  (probably  widow  of  Wm.  Oliver  who 
was  Vicar  in  1536)  appoints  as  one  of  the  Trustees 
of  her  grandson  John  DoihbuU  *my  sonne  in  lawe 
William  Lee/  presumably  of  Calverton  as  no  plac© 


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4  The  Inventor  of  the  Stocking-frame. 

is  specified.  John  DombuU  was  apparently  son  of 
*  George  DombuU  Clerk,'  which  may  imply  *  Vicar' 
in  1569,  George  DombuU  and  Wm.  Lee  each  having 
married  a  daughter  of  Oliver,  a  wholly  ecclesiastical 
connection.  In  1574  Wm.  Lee  had  a  son  baptised 
Edward,  and  he  a  son  baptized  William  in  1606.  So 
that  during  the  period  including  the  time  of  Wm.  Lee's 
vicariate  and  invention  we  have  four  generations. 

1.  Wm.  Lee  the  elder  {^ue.  father  of  another  Wm. 
Lee)  died  March  1595. 

2.  Wm.  Lee  the  elder  (his  grandson  WiUiam  being 
bom  the  previous  year)  died  May  1607. 

3.  Edward  Lee  son  of  Wm.  Lee  was  baptized  Feb. 

1574/ 

4.  Wm.  Sonne  of  Edw.  Lee  baptized  Nov.  1606. 

"It  seems  pretty  conclusive  that  the  second  Wm.  Lee 
was  the  Vicar ;  he  was  Uncle  to  a  child  whose  Baptism 
is  I  think  the  2nd  entry  in  our  Register,  or  certainly 
in  the  second  year  (we  commence  in  1568):  no  mention 
is  made  of  his  not  belonging  to  Calverton,  to  which 
his  wife  certainly  did  belong,  and  his  father  was 
certainly  living  here  afterwards  and  was  buried  in  1595. 

"His  death  also  raises  a  difl&culty.  Thoroton  and 
the  historians  following  say  that  he  died  in  Paris.  But 
they  seem  agreed  also  in  believing  that  when  his 
brother  James  arrived  at  Paris  no  one  could  tell  him 
where  he  was  buried.  Tradition  seems  always  to  have 
held  that  he  was  buried  here.  And  this  seems  to  me 
to  be  certain  if  the  Wm.  Lee  of  our  Registers  is  in 
any  place  the  Vicar.  And  if  he  be  not,  then  as  this 
is  plainly  one  family  for  four  generations,  the  Vicar's 
(Inventor's)  family  is  never  mentioned  at  all,  which 
seems  incredible.  Indeed  all  the  historians  have  taken 
this  to  be  the  Inventor's  family.  But  as  far  as  I  can 
ascertain  no  one  seems  to  have  noticed  the  second 
Wm.  Lee,  who  died  12  years  after  his  father,  and 
whose  age,  as  shewn  by  his  children  and  grand- 
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that  he  and  not  the  elder  Wm.  Lee  was  the  Inventor- 
Vicar.  But  if  so  he  was  buried  at  Calverton  the 
28th  daye  of  Maye  1607.  I  cannot  help  thinking  that 
he  managed  to  get  back  from  France,  and  that  this 
is  the  man.  'Anne  wife  of  Wm.  Lee  was  buried 
Jany-  1590/  that  is  I  suppose  the  Vicar's  wife,  or 
Wm.  Lee  N<*  2.  Two  years  later  Joane  wife  of  Wm. 
Lee,  not  now  necessarily  marked  as  *  y«  Elder,'  because 
the  wife  of  the  son  was  dead,  and  the  3rd  Wm.  was 
not  yet  bom,  was  buried  Aug.  15,  1592.  If  there 
could  be  found  any  record  of  the  Inventor's  parents' 
names,  it  would  help  to  prove  or  disprove  this 
suggestion." 

A  banking  account  has  been  opened  at  Messrs 
Smith's  Bank  in  Nottingham  for  the  Lee  Memorial 
Institute,  Calverton. 

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EARLY  LAW  AND  CUSTOM  OF  THE 
UNIVERSITY. 

Respectfully  dedicated  to  the  Ghost  of  Sir  H.nry  M.  .ne. 

EAST  term  an  event  occurred  which  will  be 
recognised  by  future  historians  as  a  landmark 
in  the  history  of  the  University.  Many  years 
ago  a  patent  law-making  machine  was  set  up  in  the 
Senate-House.  Its  construction  is  complicated,  but  the 
apparatus  by  which  it  is  worked  is  simple,  consisting 
only  of  a  Vice  and  a  pair  of  Proctors.  It  is  generally 
run  upon  Thursdays,  and  produces  batches  of  new 
laws  weekly  to  the  huge  satisfaction  of  the  Masters 
of  Arts.  As  long  as  the  Masters  of  Arts  were  the 
only  persons  affected  by  the  operations  of  this  machine, 
we  noticed  it  but  with  a  languid  curiosity.  It  was 
pleasant  to  see  their  innocent  gambols  as  they  took 
turns  at  grinding  the  handle  and  watching  the  result ; 
but  the  deeper  interests  of  the  university  were  not 
involved,  and  therefore  the  undergraduate  world 
maintained  its  accustomed  attitude  of  dignified  repose. 
But  by  some  accident  to  the  machinery,  due  doubtless 
to  careless  handling  on  the  part  of  the  persons  in 
charge,  what  went  into  the  machine  as  a  Grace 
adopting  the  report  of  a  special  syndicate  appointed 
to  regulate  the  tips  of  the  University  Marshal,  came 
out  as  an  Edict  prohibiting  undergraduates  from 
*  working  the  wary  dog-cart '  upon  the  Sabbath  day. 

By  this  accident  our  liberties  were  endangered,  and 
at  the  same  time  our  attention  was  turned  to  the  basis 
of  that  system    of  Law  and   Custom  by  which   oiu: 


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conduct  has  hitherto  been  regulated.  To  historical 
students  the  problem  suggested  was  one  of  the  pro- 
founddlt  interest,  and  a  few  of  us  embarked  upon  an 
investigation  which  has  been  attended  with  remarkable 
success.  To  sum  up  the  results  of  a  series  of  researches 
extending  over  several  months,  it  will  suffice  to  say- 
that  it  became  clear  to  us  that  the  conduct  of  the 
Undergraduate  has,  as  a  matter  of  history,  been 
regulated,  not  by  Legislation,  but  by  Customary  Law 
of  the  best  ancestor-make,  dating  from  a  period  long 
anterior  to  the  patenting  of  the  Senate-house  machine. 
It  was  thus  evident  that  the  Edict  to  which  reference 
has  already  been  made  was  an  unwarrantable  invasion 
of  the  sphere  of  Custom  by  Legislation — an  invasion 
which  we  were  bound  to  resist.  Masters  of  Colleges 
we  know,  and  Proctors  we  know,  but  we  have  accepted 
their  authority  from  time  immemorial  because  it  rests 
upon  a  sound  customary  basis ;  for  were  not  the  former 
'sprung  from  the  head,  which  is  the  most  excellent 
part  of  Brahm'  and  the  latter  from  his  arms,  while 
Undergraduates  originated  only  from  his  feet  (Manu). 
We  have  always  admitted  that  no  persons  in  statu 
pupillari  are  allowed  to  absent  themselves  from  Hall 
during  the  races  at  Newmarket,  and  we  are  aware 
that  all  who  offend  against  this  ceremonial  rule  are 
likely  to  expiate  their  sin  in  succeeding  transmigra- 
tions; but  this  also  is  a  prohibition  of  Customary 
Law,  and  co-eval  with  the  Dawn  of  Time.  But 
the  Edict  aforesaid  has  no  such  justification,  and  thus 
in  determining  to  resist  it  we  took  an  unassailable 
position.  We  might  have  argued  that  we  ought  not  to 
be  bound  by  a  prohibition  which  was  in  the  first 
instance  the  result  of  an  accident  to  machinery :  we 
might  have  enlarged  upon  the  irreparable  loss  which 
would  accrue  to  the  neighbourhood  of  Cambridge 
when  the  plaintive  melodies  of  the  post-horn  should 
cease  to  wake  soft  echoes  in  the  woods  of  Madingley, 
&nd  when  the  swains  of  Magdalene  should  go  forth 


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no  more  to  woo  the  shepherd  maidens  of  Saint  Ives. 
But  we  preferred  to  take  our  stand  upon  the  firmer 
ground  of  History,  and  fight  the  EDICT  as  an  inlrusion 
of  Legislation  into  the  domain  hitherto  sacred  to 
Customary  Law — relying  on  the  goodness  of  our  cause, 
and  invoking  to  our  help  the  shade  of  the  most 
enchanting  of  departed  jurists. 

The  issue  of  that  conflict  is  not  yet  decided,  and 
we  do  not  propose  to  discuss  here  the  precise  problems 
involved.  It  will  be  enough  to  say  that  having  had 
our  attention  thus  turned  to  the  Early  Law  and  Custom 
of  the  University,  we  were  led  to  prosecute  our  researches 
still  fiirther,  and  to  enquire  more  fully  than  we  had 
hitherto  done  into  the  contents  of  those  ancient  codes 
of  Customary  Law  which  our  Thursday  legislation 
had  attempted  to  supersede.  Seeking  a  learned  pundit, 
who  is  initiated  into  the  Vedas  and  has  fathomed 
the  mysteries  of  the  sacred  texts,  we  sat  for  the  Long 
Vacation  at  his  feet.  Beginning  with  the  code  of 
Manu,  the  greatest  of  them  all,  we  passed  to  the 
Institutes  of  Vishnu,  (the  Dharma'SitUra  of  the  K4rd- 
yaniya-KatYias^  who  ponder  the  Black  Yagur^Veda 
day  and  night):  thence  to  VasisMha^  Batidh6,yanaf 
and  Apastamba^-^vAierem  lieth  the  secret  of  life — and 
having  at  last  reached  the  Institutes  of  Gautama, 
we  attained  unto  the  sum  of  knowledge  of  what  the  law 
requires  of  the  Perfect  Undergraduate. 

And,  behold,  when  we  had  completed  this  cycle  of 
studies,  we  knew  that  we  of  the  present  day  had  lapsed 
from  the  virtues  of  former  men,  leaving  undone  things 
prescribed  by  the  sacred  texts  to  be  done,  and  doing 
such  things  as  the  sacred  texts  forbid.  Wherefore  we 
took  unto  ourselves  a  pen  and  five  quires  of  ^Hieratica,' 
and  sitting  down  upon  a  bench  sought  to  set  forth 
the  true  contents  of  the  Customary  Law,  if  perchance 
other  Johnians  by  obeying  it  should  attain,  like  our- 
selves unto  the  estate  of  the  Perfect  Undergraduate, 
The  neglected  precepts  of  the  Ancient  Codes  we  have 


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therefore  set  forth  in  order,  that  he  who  runs  may- 
read  thereof  and  be  enlightened,  as  well  as  Boating 
Men  and  other  Members  of  the  Amalgamation. 

(i)  Of  the  demeanour  of  the  Perfect  Undergraduate. 

(a)  *  Let  him  not  look  at  dancing.  Let  him  not  go  to 
assemblies  for  gambling,  nor  to  crowds  assembled 
at  festivals.  Let  him  not  be  addicted  to  gossiping. 
Let  him  be  discreet.'    {Apastamba  1.  i.  3.  11 — 14.) 

(b)  *He  must  not  speak  to  barbarians  or  low-caste 
persons.'    (^Vishnu  LXXI.  59.) 

{c)    *Even    though    he    lacks    firewood    or    the    like 
necessaries  he  must  not  say  to  another  man  *I 
have  got  none."    ( Vishnu  Lxxi.  10.) 
{d)    *  He  must  not  dance  or  sing.     He  must  not  make 
a  noise  by  slapping  his    left  arm,   after  having 
placed  it  upon  his  right  shoulder,  with  his  right 
hand.     He  must  not  make  vulgar  speeches.     He 
must    not    tell   an    untruth.      He    must    not    say 
disagreeable  things.'    ( Vishnu  LXXI.  70^74.) 
(e)    *A    student  must  not  shampoo  the    [head]    of  his 
teacher's  son.*    {Manu.) 
On  this  great  stress  is  rightly  laid  by  the  code.    The 
general    flavour   is   that  of   Ahn's   French   Exercises. 
•Has  the  aunt  of  your  female  gardener  pens,  ink, 
and  paper.*     *No,  but  the  female  cousin  of  Henry's 
maternal  uncle  has  pens,  ink,  and  paper.* 
{f)    *He  shall  not  smile.     If  he  smiles,  he  shall  smile 
covering  the   mouth  with  his  hand.'     {Apastamba 
L  ii.  7.  6—7.) 

(2)  Of  the  Dress  of  the  Perfect  Undergraduate. 

(a)  *He  must  not  wear  a  worn-out-dress  if  he  has 
means  to  procure  a  new  one.*    ( Vishnu  LXXi.  9.) 

(i)    *  He  shall  avoid  all  dyed  dresses,  and  all  naturally 
black  cloth.     He  shall  wear  a  dress  that  is  neither 
shining  nor  despicable,  if  he  is  able  to  afford  it.' 
{Apastamba  I.  xi.  30.  10 — 13.) 
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{fi)    *  He  shall  avoid  the  use  of  shoes,  of  an  umbrella, 
a  chariot,  and  the  like.'    {Apastamba  I.  ii.  7.  5.) 
This    settles    the    great    umbrella    controversy    which 
pervaded  the  Review  for  a  term  or  two  some  time 
back. 
(4)    'Some  declare  that  students  who  have  returned 
home  on    completion    of  their   studentship  shall 
never  shave,  except  if  engaged  in  the  initiation 
to  a  iSrauta  sacrifice/    {Apastamba  I.  iii.  10.  7.) 

(3)  Of  his  Drinks. 

(a)  <  Griving  false  evi4ence,  and  killing  a  friend :  these 
two  crimes  are  equal  to  the  drinking  of  spirituous 
liquor.'    ( Vphnu  ^xvi.  2.) 

(i)  *  A  drinker  of  spirituous  liquor  shall  drink  exceed- 
ingly hot  liquor  so  that  he  dies.*  {Apastamba 
I.  ix.  23.  3.) 

(4)  Of  his  Cold  Tub. 

[a)  *H[e  who  regularly  takes  the  prescribed  bath 
every  morning  does  not  e:^perience  the  tortures 
of  Yama's  hell.  By  the  regular  bath  criminals  even 
obtain  their  absolution.'    ( Vishnu  ixiv.  42.) 

{b)  'Bathing  is  also  ordained  after.  ...bad  dreams 
(of  having  been  mounted  on  an  ass  or  the  like). . . . 
also  after  haying  had  your  hair  cut  and  after 
having  touched.  ••  .a  sacrificial  post/  {Vishnu 
XXII.  67 — 69.) 

(5)  Of  his  Having  Other  Men  to  Breakfast. 

{a)  *  At  a  iSrAddha  offering  he  must  enquire  as  closely 
as  possible  into  the  qualities  and  descent  of  a 
Brahma^a  whoin  he  means  to  invite.  He  must 
not  invite  such  as  have  a  limb  too  little,  or  a  limb 
too  much ;  nor  those  who  act  deceitfully,  like  cats ; 
nor  astrologers;  nor  physicians;  nor  those  who 
work  on  holidays ;  nor  those  who  teach  the  Veda 
for  a  fee ;  nor  those  who  neglect  their  daily  study 


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of  the  Veda;  nor  those  who  neglect  their  morning 
and  evening  prayers;  nor  those  who  are  in  the 
King's  service;  nor  naked  persons/  {Vishnu 
Lxxxn.  passim.) 
(i)  *A  professional  physician  is  a  person  whose  food 
must  not  be  eaten ;  nor  that  of  men  who  live  by 

A 

letting    lodgings    or    land/      (Apastamia    I.    vi. 

l8.   20 21.) 

(c)  'He  shall  eat  after  his  guests.  He  shall  not 
consume  all  the  flavoured  liquids  in  the  house, 
so  as  to  leave  nothing  for  guests.'  {Apastamba 
n.  iv.  8.  2—3.) 

{d)  'Eight  mouthfuls  make  the  meal  of  an  ascetic, 
sixteen  that  of  a  hermit  in  the  woods,  thirty-two 
that  of  a  householder,  an  unlimited  quantity  that 
of  a  student/    (Baudhdyana  H.  x.  18.  3.) 

{e)  *He  who  entertains  guests  for  one  night  obtains 
earthly  happiness,  a  second  night  gains  the  middle 
air,  a  third  heavenly  bliss,  a  fourth  the  world  of 
unsurpassable  bliss;  many  nights  procure  endless 
worlds.  That  has  been  declared  in  the  Vedas/ 
{Apastamba  H.  iii.  7.  16.) 

(6)  0/  the  Status  of  a  College  Lecturer. 

'A  maternal  aunt,  the  wife  of  a  maternal  uncle, 

a  mother-in-law,   and  a  paternal  aunt,   must  be 

honoured  like  the  wife  of  one's  teacher;  they  are 

equal  to  the  wife  of  one's  teacher/    (Manu.) 

The  precise  problem  involved  in  this  precept  may  be 

left  to  the  mathematicians.     *  If  the  wife  of  a  college 

lecturer  ^  an  undergraduate's  mother-in-law,  what  will 

be  the  social  position  of  the  lecturer  himself  (a)  where 

he  has,  and  (d)  where  he  has  not  a  wife  ? 

(7)  Of  ^^  respect  due  from  the  Perfect  Undergraduate 
to  a  College  Lecturer. 

(a)  'Every  day  he  shall  put  his  teacher  to  bed  after 
having. ..  .rubbed  him/    {Apastamba  I.  ii.  6.  i.) 


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(b)  *He  shall  approach  his  teacher  with  the  same 
reverence  as  a  deity,  without  telling  idle  stories, 
attentive  and  listening  early  to  his  words.' 
(Apastamba  I.  ii.  6.  13.) 

(c)  *In  the  presence  of  his  teacher  let  him  always 
eat  less,  wear  a  less  valuable  dress  and  ornaments 
than  the  former,  and  let  him  rise  earlier  from  his 
bed  and  go  to  rest  later. . .  .within  sight  of  his 
teacher  he  shall  not  sit  carelessly  at  ease. .,  .Let 
him  not  pronounce  the  mere  name  of  his  teacher 
without  adding  an  honorific  title — ^behind  his  back 
even — and  let  him  not  mimic  his  gait,  speech,  and 
deportment.  By  censuring  his  teacher,  though 
justly,  he  will  become  in  his  next  birth  an  ass; 
by  falsely  defaming  him,  a  dog;  he  who  lives 
on  his  teacher's  substance  will  become  a  worm; 
and  he  who  is  envious  of  his  merit  a  larger  insect.' 
{Manu.) 

(d)  *He  shall  not  sit  on  a  seat  higher  than  that  of 
his  teacher;  nor  on  a  seat  that  has  more  legs; 
nor  on  a  seat  that  stands  more  firmly  fixed  on 
the  ground.'    (Apastamba  I.  ii.  8.  8 — 10.) 

{e)    *  After  the  salutation   he  must  mention  his   own 
name  and   add  the  word  bhos  (Venerable  Sir)  at 
the  end  of  his  address.'    ( Vishnu  xxvm.  1 7.) 
The  Americans  spell  it  *  boss.' 

(8)  0/  his  Deportment  at  a  Lecture. 

(a)  *At  the  beginning  and  at  the  end  of  a  lecture 
let  the  pupil  embrace  his  teacher's  feet.'  (  Vishnu 
XXX.  32.) 

(Jb)  *  If  his  teacher  and  his  teacher's  teacher  [e,g.  Pro- 
fessor SeeleyJ  meet,  he  shall  embrace  the  feet  of  his 
teacher's  teacher,  and  then  show  his  desire  to  do 
the  same  to  his  teacher.'    {Apastamba  I.  ii.  8.  19.) 

{c)    *  Let  him  not  say  to  his  teacher  *  hush '  or  *  pish.' ' 

{d)  *He  must  avoid  to  quarrel  with  his  teacher  and 
to  argue  with  him.'    {Vishnu  xxxn.  10.) 


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Observe  that  the  general  precept  of  the  legislator  has  no 

penalty  attached  to  it,  because  it  is  thought  that  the 

teacher  will  generally  get  the   best  of  it — but  lest 

undergraduates  should  become  rash  and  presumptuous, 

it  is  desirable  to  state  here  that  in  another  part  of 

the  code  a  severe  penance   is   to   be  exacted  from 

anyone  overpowering  a  Brahmin  in  argument.     In  order 

to  give  local  colour  we  might  add  that  Vishnu  xliii 

describes  22  hells,  including  'Raurava' — the  place  of 

howling — •  Mah^raurava' — the  place  of  much  howling— 

and  *  Rikishz ' — frying-pan. 

{e)    *He  shall  avoid. ..  .in  the  presence  of  his  teacher 

covering    his   throat,   crossing    his  legs,    leaning 

against  a  wall  and   the  like,  and  stretching  out 

his  feet,  as  well  as. ..  .laughing,  yawning,  cracking 

the  joints  of  his  finger^s/     {Gautama  II.  13 — 15.) 

{/)    *If  a  dog,  an  ichneumon,  a  snake,  a  frog,  or  a 

cat  pass  between  the  teacher  and  the  pupil  [during 

the  lecture]  a  three  days'  fast  and  a  journey  [to 

town]   are   necessary.     In   case   the   same   event 

happens  with  other  animals,  the  pupil  must  thrice 

restrain    his    breath,    and    eat    clarified    butter/ 

{Gautama  I.  59 — 60.) 

{g)    [To    apply    to   classical   lectures   only].       'But    to 

him  who  is  about  to  begin  studying,  the  teacher, 

always  unwearied,   must  say   *Ho!    recite/      He 

shall    leave    off  when   the  teacher   says    *Let   a 

stoppage  take  place.' '    {Manu.) 

(9)  Of  his  Presentation  to  his  Tutor  on  taking  a  College 

Living. 

*A  twice-born  householder  gains  by  giving  alms 
the  same  reward  for  his  meritorious  act  that  a 
student  obtains  for  presenting  in  accordance  with 
the  nile  a  cow  to  his  teacher.'    {Manu.) 

(10)  Of  the  Reading  Man. 

(a)    *  He  must  not  study  when  a  strong  wind  is  going. 
He  must  not  study  for  three    days  when   rain, 


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lightning,  or  thunder  happen  out  of  season.  He 
must  not  study  till  the  same  hour  next  day  in 
the  case  of  an  earthquake^  of  the  fall  of  a  meteor, 
and  when  the  horizon  is  pretematurally  red,  as 
if  on  fire.  He  must  not  study  during  a  battle ; 
nor  while  dogs  are  barking,  jackals  yelling,  or 
asses  braying;  nor  while  the  sound  of  a  musical 
instrument  is  being  heard  [He  can't];  nor  while 
immersed  in  water ;  nor  with  his  foot  placed  upon 
a  bench;  nor  during  an  indigestion.'  {Vishnu 
XXX.  7 — 21.  passim.) 
(b)  *  Some  forbid  it  only  in  case  of  a  funeral  dinner.' 
{Apastamba  I.  iii.  ii,  26.) 

(i  i)  Of  Men  who  Cut  (a)  Chapel  and  (b)  Lectures. 

<  Sinful  men  are — he  who  sleeps  at  sunrise  or  at 
sunset. ..  .and  he  who  forgets  the  Veda  through 
neglect  of  the  daily  recitation/    (  Vasishtha  I.  1 8.) 

(12)  Of  the  Bull-dogs. 

(a)  Let  there  be  many  spies,  active,  artful  youths, 
degraded  anchorites,  distressed  husbandmen,  de- 
cayed merchants,  or  fictitious  penitents.    (Manu.) 

(b)  These  are  the  dogs  of  Yama, — *  black  and  spotted, 
broad  of  nostril,  of  a  hunger  never  to  be  satisfied.' 
{Vedas.) 

(13)  Of  College  Discipline. 

(a)  The  pupil  *  shall  sit  neither  too  near  to,  nor  too 
far  from  the  teacher,  but  at  such  a  distance  that  the 
teacher  may  be  able  to  reach  him  with  his  arms  without 
rising*    {Apastamba  I.  ii.  6.  21 — 22.) 

(b)  *  Frightening,  fasting,  bathing  in  cold  water,  and 
banishment  from  the  teacher's  -presence  are  the 
punishments  which  are  to  be  employed,  according 
unto  the  greatness  of  the  fault,  until  the  pupil 
leaves  off  sinning.'    {Apastamba.  I  ii.  8.  30.) 


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(14)  Of  the  College  Council. 

(a)  The  council  shall  meet  'on  a  mountain,  or  in  a 
forest,  or  some  lonely  place  without  listeners,  from 
which  women  and  talking-birds  are  first  to  be 
carefully  removed/    (Afanu.) 

(i)  *What  [twelve]  Br4hma«as  who  have  completely 
studied  the  Vedas  proclaim,  that  must  be  distinctly 
recognised  as  the  sacred  law,  not  the  decision 
of  a  thousand  fools/    ( VasisAtYia  III.  7.) 

(15)  0/the  Ideal  Tutor. 

He  shall  be  'noble,  clever,  sagacious,  endowed 
with  penetration,  honest,  popular,  dexterous  in 
business,  acquainted  with  countries  and  with  the 
times,  handsome,  intrepid^  eloquent/    [Manu^ 

(16)  0/ Professor  M*:fr. 

'Meat  cannot  be  obtained  without  injuring  an 
animal,  and  the  murder  of  animals  excludes  the 
murderer  from  heaven,  therefore  must  meat  be 
avoided. ..  .He  who  transgresses  not  the  law  and 
eats  not  flesh  like  a  Plf&i^a,  is  beloved  by  men,  and 
remains  fi^e  from  disease/    ( Vishnu  u.  71^73.) 

(17)  0/ the  Junior  Bursar. 

'He  who  causes  a  temple  erected  by  another  to 
be  whitewashed  acquires  brilliant  fame.  He  who 
causes  such  a  temple  to  be  painted  with  a  different 
colour,  such  as  blue,  yellow,  and  others,  attains 
the  world  of  Gandharvas.'     (  Vishnu  XCII.  11 — 12.) 

(18)  0/the  Father  0/ his  College. 

'A  killer  of  insects  shall  pay  one  Kl&rsh&pa^a/ 
(  Vishnu  V.  54.) 

(19)  Of  the  Commemoration  of  Benefactors. 

'  Excessive  eating  is  prejudicial  to  health,  to  fame, 
and  to  bliss  in  heaven ;  it  prevents  the  acquisition 


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of  spiritual  merit,  ,and  is  odious  among  men :  one 
ought  for  these  reasons  to  avoid  it  carefiilly/ 
{Manu.^ 

(20)  Of  the  College  Dairy. 

'Scratching  the  back  of  a  cow  destroys  all  guilt, 
and  giving  her  to  eat  procures  exaltation  in 
heaven.'    (  Vishnu  xxni.  60.) 

(21)  Of  Coaches. 

*  He  who  having  collected  sacred  knowledge,  gains 
his  substance  by  it  in  this  world,  will  derive  no 
benefit  from  it  in  the  world  to  come/  {Vishnu 
XXX.  39.) 

(22)  Of  a  Certain  Sort  of  Bounder. 

*  A  fat,  bellowing,  raging,  humped  bull,  who  does 
not  restrain  himself,  who  hurts  living  creatures 
and  speaks  according  to  his  pleasure,  forsooth,  does 
not  reach  the  abode  of  the  gods.'  {Batcdhdyana 
I.  V.  10.  31.) 

(23)  Of  the  Eventual  Marriage  of  the  Perfect  Gradtcate. 

*  Let  a  man  not  marry  a  girl  with  reddish  hair. . . . 
nor  one  either  with  no  hair,  or  with  too  much  ;  nor 
one  immoderately  talkative ;  nor  one  with  inflamed 
eyes ;  nor  one  with  the  name  of  a  constellation, 
of  a  tree,  or  a  river,  of  a  barbarous  nation,  or  of 
a  mountain ;  of  a  winged  creature,  a  snake,  or  a 
slave;  nor  with  any  name  raising  an  image  of 
terror.  Let  him  choose  for  his  wife  a  girl  whose 
form  has  no  defect,  who  has  an  agreeable  name, 
who  walks  gracefully — like  a  phenicopterus  or  like 
a  young  elephant, — whose  hair  and  teeth  are 
moderate,  respectively  in  quantity  and  in  size.' 
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gHE  recent  vacation  of  the  College  Rectory  of 
Souldeme  by  the  death  of  Dr  Stephenson  has 
recalled  to  mind  a  strange  story  related  of  a 
former  Rector.  Mr  Torry  has  been  at  pains  to  furnish 
us  with  the  records,  and  has  appended  a  number  of 
interesting  notes  throwing  light  on  the  persons  and  the 
times  therein  mentioned.  The  extracts  are  taken  from 
Mr  Lunn's  Memoir  of  Caleb  Parnham  B.D^y  Sametime 
Fellow  and  Tutor  of  St  John's  College^  Cambridge^  which 
was  printed  for  the  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society 
in  1883-  For  the  engraving  of  Soulderne  Church  we 
are  indebted  to  the  proprietor  of  the  Soulderne  Church 
Magazine. 

''Pari  of  a  Letter  from  Mr  Edmund  Walter,  Fellow  of 
S4  fokfis  College,  Cambridge,  to  his  Friend  in  thi 
Country,  dated  Dec,  6,  1706. 

'I  should  scarce  have  mentioned  anything  of  the  mattet* 
you  write  about  of  my  own  accord ;  but,  since  you  have  given 
yourself  the  trouble  of  an  enquiry,  I  am,  I  think,  obliged  in 
friendship  to  relate  all  that  I  know  of  the  matter ;  and  that 
I  do  the  more  willingly,  because  I  can  so  soon  produce  my 
authority.  Mr  Shaw,  to  whom  the  apparition  appeared,  was 
Rector  of  Soldem  or  Souldem,  in  Oxfordshire,  late  of  St  John's 
College  aforesaid;  on  whom  Mr  Grove,  his  old  Fellow  Col- 
legiate, called  July  last  in  his  journey  to  the  West,  where 
be  staid  a  day  or  two;  and  promised  to  see  him  again  in 
his  return;  which  he  did,  and  staid  3  days  with  him;  in 
that  time  one  night  after  supper,  Mr  Shaw  told  him  that 
there  happened  a  passage  which  he  could  not  conceal  from 
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him,  as  being  an  intimate  friend,  and  one  to  whom  this 
transaction  might  have  something  more  relation  than  another 
man.  He  proceeded  therefore,  and  told  him  that  about  a 
week  before  that  time,  viz:  July  28,  1706,  as  he  was  smoking 
and  reading  in  his  study  about  11  or  12  at  night,  there  came 
to  him  the  apparition  of  Mr  Naylor,  formerly  Fellow  of  the 
said  College,  and  dead  some  years  ago,  a  friend  of  Mr  Shaw's, 
in  the  same  garb  he  used  to  be  in,  with  his  hands  clasped 
before  him.  Mr  Shaw,  not  being  much  surprised,  asked  him 
how  he  did,  and  desired  him  to  sit  down,  which  Mr  Naylor 
^id.  They  both  sat  there  a  considerable  time,  and  entertained 
one  another  with  various  discourses.  Mr  Shaw  then  asked 
him  after  what  manner  they  lived  in  the  separate  state;  he 
answered,  far  different  from  what  they  do  here,  but  that  he 
was  very  well.  He  enquired  farther,  whether  there  was  any 
of  their  old  acquaintance  in  that  place  where  he  was;  he 
answered.  No,  not  one;  and  then  proceeded,  and  told  him 
that  one  of  their  old  friends,  naming  Mr  Orchard,  should  die 
quickly,  and  he  himself  should  not  be  long  after.  There  was 
mention  of  several  people's  names;  but  who  ihey  were,  or 
upon  what  occasion,  Mr  Grove  cannot,  or  will  not  tell.  Mr 
Shaw  then  asked  him  whether  he  would  not  visit  him  again 
before  that  time:  he  answered,  no,  he  could  not;  he  had 
but  3  days  allowed  him,  and  farther  he  could  not  go.  Mr  Shaw 
said,  Fiat  voluntas  Domini;  and  the  Apparition  left  him.  This 
is  word  for  word,  as  Mr  Shaw  told  Mr  Grove,  and  Mr  Grove 
told  me. 

^  Note.  What  surprised  Mr  Grove  was,  that  as  he  had  in 
his  journey  homewards  occasion  to  ride  through  Clopton,  or 
Claxton  (?  Caxton),  he  called  upon  one  Mr  Clark,  Fellow  of 
our  College  aforesaid,  and  Curate  there;  when,  enquiring 
after  College  news,  Mr  Clark  told  him  Arthur  Orchard  died 
that  week  Aug.  6,  1706,  which  very  much  shocked  Mr  Grove, 
and  brought  to  his  mind  the  story  of  Mr  Shaw  afresh.  About 
3  weeks  ago  Mr  Shaw  died  of  an  apoplexy  in  the  desk,  of 
the  same  distemper  as  poor  Arthur  Orchard  died  of. 

^  Note.  Since  this  strange  completion  of  matters,  Mr  Grove 
has  told  this  relation,  and  stands  to  the  truth  of  it;  and 
that  which  confirms  the  Narrative  is,  that  he'  told  the  same 
to  Dr  Baldiston,  the  present  Vice-Chancellor,  and  Master  of 
Emmanuel  College,  above  a  week  before  Mr  Shaw's  death; 


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and  when  he  came  to  the  College,  he  was  no  way  surprised* 
as  others  were. 

'What  furthers  my  belief  of  its  being  a  true  vision,  and 
not  a  dream,  is  Mr  Grove's  incredulity  of  stories  of  this  nature. 
Considering  them  both  as  men  of  learning  and  integrity,  the 
one  would  not  first  have  declared,  nor  the  other  have  spread 
the  same,  were  not  the  matter  itself  serious  and  real. 

Yours  &c        Edmund  Waller* 

"  The  dates  are  remarkable.  The  Cambridge  Com- 
mencement was  July  2,  1706,  term  ended  on  July  5  ; 
when  Grove  would  go  down  to  the  West  of  England, 
taking  Souldern  in  his  way.  The  date  of  the  apparition, 
July  28,  was  Sunday,  and  from  the  manner  in  which 
Shaw  spoke  of  it,  we  cannot  very  well  assign  to  Grove's 
second  visit  any  earlier  date  than  Monday,  Aug.  5 ; 
and  it  is  a  tempting  conjecture  that  the  conversation 
may  well  have  taken  place  on  Tuesday,  Aug.  6,  the 
very  day  of  Orchard's  death,  as  g^iven  in  Nichols. 
It  is  right  to  say  that  the  7th  is  given  in  Lee's  More 
Glimpses  as  the  date;  probably  the  death  occurred 
in  the  night,  and  the  exact  time  is  unknown. 

Clark's  report  to  Grove  implies  that  the  latter  was 
on  his  way  back  to  Cambridge  before  Sunday, 
August  II  (on  which  day  Orchard  was  buried):  he 
therefore  must  have  gone  straight  from  Souldern  (which 
is  near  Banbury)  to  Cambridge. 

The  statement  that  Grove  on  arriving  at  Cambridge 
was  not  surprised  at  Orchard's  death,*  also  implies 
that  he  arrived  there  very  soon  after  that  event,,  and 
it  is  at  least  a  plausible  supposition  that  he  arrived 
on  Saturday,  August  10.  This  would  seem  to  render 
it  impossible  that  there  should  have  been  any  inter- 
communications or  ordinary  information  forthcoming, 
so    that    Grove's    knowledge    gould    only   have   been 

•  It  is  not  clear  from  Mr  Waller's  statement  whether  it  was  Mr  Shaw's 
death  or  Mr  Orchard's  that  Mr  Grove  "was  in  no  way  surprised  at."  The 
aoibiguity  somewhat  weakens  Mr  Lunn's  argument.^EDD.  Ea^U^ 


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obtained  in  the  manner  alleged,  and  therefore  that 
the  apparition  was  a  .genuine  fact.  The  date  of 
Waller's  letter  is  too  soon  after  thp  event  to  allow  of 
any  supposition  that  dates  have  got  mis-stated  from 
{laziness  arising  from  lapse  of  time." 


Where  holy  ground  begins,  unhallowed  ends, 

Is. marked  by  no  distinguishable  line; 

The  tUTf  unites,  the  pathways  intertwine ; 

And  wheresoe'er  tl^e  stealing  footstep  tends 

Garden,  and  that  domain  where  kindred,  friends, 

And  iieighboursi  rest  together,  here  confound 

Their  several  features,-  mingled  like  the  SQund 

Of  n^any  waters,  o^  as  evening  blends 

With  shady  night.    Soft  airs,  from  shrub  and  flower. 

Waft  fragrant  greetings  to  each  silent  grave; 

And  while  those  lofty  poplars  gently  wave 

Their  tops,  between  them  cqmes  and  goes  a  skjr 

Bright  as  the  glimpses  of  eternity 

To  saints  accorded  in  their  mortal  hour. 

Wordsworth s  "-4  Parsonage  in  Oxfordshire!^ 

In  the  edition  of  Wordsworth's  poems  in  six  volumes 
published  by  Ed\ya^d  Moxon  1857,  the  above  sonnet 


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(Vol  II.  p.  339)  has  this  prefix— »►' This  Parsonage  was 
the  residence  pf  my  friend  Jones,  and  is  particularly 
described  in  another  note/  Where  is  the  note  here 
referred  to? 

Wordsworth's  friend,  the  Rev  Robert  Jones,  was 
Fellow  of  the  College  1791 — 1807,  Rector  of  Soulderne 
1807 — 1835,  and  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev  Lawrence 
Stephenson,  of  whom  there  is  an  obituary  notice  on 
page  53- 

The  Rectory  of  Soulderne  was  presented  to  the 
College  in  1624  by  Bp  Williams,  together  with  those 
of  Freshwater  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and  what  were 
then  the  sinecures  of  St  Florence  ^nd  Aberdaron 
in  Wales. 

Former  Rectors  were  Thomas  Hodges  1647 — 166^, 
William  Twyne  1662 — 1667,  Brian  Turner  1667 — 1698, 
Geoffrey  Shaw  1698 — 1706,  Matthew  Pearson  1706— 
'735t  J-  Russell  1735 — 1772,  J.  Horseman  1772—1806. 

The  College  presented  Thos.  Hodges  twice.  In  1647 
the  presentation  was  made  to  Dr  Aylott,  "  Venerabili 
viro  Roberto  Aylott  Legum  doctori  Auctoritate  Parlta- 
menti  jam  sedentts  legitime  /ulcito. .  •"  On  9  Dec.  166  J 
he  was  presented  to  the  Bishop.  On  the  3"^  of  March 
following  the  College  presented  Wm  Twyne,  the 
living  being  vacant  ^per  cessionem  Thos.  Hodges^ 
Possibly  the  Bishop  refused  to  institute  Hodges;  his 
name  does  not  however  appear  in  Calamy's  record 
of  *  ejected  ministers.'  Matthew  Pearson  is  noticeable 
as  one  of  twenty  Fellows  with  reference  to  whom 
a  mandamus  was  issued  to  the  Master  Dr  Gower, 
in  1693,  to  eject  them  as  non -jurors.  The  grand  jury 
at  Cambridge  refused  to  find  a  true  bill,  and  they 
retained  their  Fellowships  for  the  time. 

Geoffrey  Shaw  is  the  subject  of  the  above  story, 
and  it  is  noteworthy  that  nearly  all  the  persons 
mentioned  in  connexion  with  it  were  members  of 
the  College.  The  story  is  told  in  Nichols's  Illustrations 
of  the  Literary  History  of  the  iSth  Century,  Vol.  IV. 


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p.  119,  in  Dr  F.  G.  Lee's  Glimpses  of  the  Supernatural^ 
Vol  II.  p.  9,  and  More  Glimpses  of  the  World  Unseen^ 
p.  58,  and  in  the  Appendix  to  the  above-mentioned 
Memoir  of  Caleb  Parnham^  by  the  Rev  J.  R.  Lunn. 
In  the  account  as  we  have  printed  it  the  emendations 
suggested  by  Mr  Lunn  have  been  incorporated. 

The  following  notes  will  serve  to  identify  the  persons 
whose  name3  occur  in  the  text. 

John  Naylor  (p.  18),  B.A.  1675,  elected  Fellow  1677, 

was  one  of  the  20  non-jurors  above-mentioned. 

He    died    a    Fellow,    and    was    buried    in    the 

College  Chapel  7  Nov.  1701. 

Arthur  Orchard  (p.  18),  B.A.  1662,  Fellow  1666 — 1706, 

w^s  buried  in  the  College  Chapel  11  Aug.  1706. 
Geoffrey  Shaw  (p.  17),  B.A.  1679,  Fellow  1680 — 1699, 
dropped    down   dead   in    the    Prayer   Desk    at 
Soulderne  while  reading  the  Second  Lesson  of 
Evensong  17  Nov.  1706. 
Robert  Grove  (p.  17),  B.A.,  1691,  Fellow  1694 — 1726. 
Peter  Clark  (p.  18),  B.A.  1699,  Fellow  1703 — 1735, 
died  a  Fellow  and  was  buried  in  the  College 
Chapel. 
Edmund  Waller  (p.    17),  B.A.    1701,   was   Fellow 
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ROMANY. 

IT  will  be  remembered  that  in  the  Ea£^le  for 
the  Michaelmas  Term  1885  fxiv,  38)  we  gave 
a  Gipsy  Ballad,  O  Naslo  Rom^  by  *Bivvan 
Kosh,'  who  is  known  to  Gentiles  as  Mr  Darlington, 
now  one  of  our  Fellows.  That  was  in  the  dialect 
current  on  the  Welsh  Border;  in  the  present  number 
we  give  another  in  the  North-country  dialect,  and 
those  who  have  come  under  the  glamour  of  the  Rmnany 
will  be  interested  in  comparing  them. 

To  those  who  have  not  yet  learned  to  love  this 
ancient  speech,  which  can  still  be  heard  at  Sturbridge 
Fair,  by  the  King's  Hedges,  on  Coldham  Common 
or  Newmarket  Heath,  to  say  nothing  of  Cambridge 
streets,  we  would  say — Begin  George  Borrow's  Lavengro 
zxiA  Romany  Rye  or  his  Gypsies  of  Spaing  and  you  will 
inevitably  go  further  and  con  the  Romano  Lavo-lil^ 
and  perhaps  the  English- Gypsy  songs  of  our  lamented 
Professor  Palmer,  and  his  colleagues  Charles  Leland 
and  Miss  Tuckey.  For  the  philologist  the  langxiage 
oflFers  many  points  of  interest ;  some  of  them  as  illus- 
trated in  the  Romani  Ghili  on  p.  2^  we  shall  point  out 
later.  But  we  may  first  cite  a  passage  from  Smart  and 
Crofton's  indispensable  Dialect  of  the  English  Gypsies 
(edition  1875),  which  will  enlighten  our  readers  on 
the  relations  of  the  several  species  of  Romany,  and 
the  distinction  between  the  *deep'  language  and  the 
broken  jargon  that  is  spoken  about  Cambridgeshire 
in  the  present  day. 

There  are  several  dialects  of  the  Anglo- Romanes.  Sylvester 
Boswell  recounts  six;  ist,   that  spoken  by  the  New.  Forest 


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Gypsies,  having  Hampshire  for  it^  heacl-quarters ;  2nd,  the 
South-Eastern,  including  Kent  and  the^  Neighbourhood  ; 
3rd,  the  Metropolitan,  that  of  London  and  its  environs; 
4th,  the  East  Anglian,  eictending  over  Norfolk,  Suffolk,  Cambs, 
Lincolnshire,  Northampton,  and  Leicestershire;  5th,  that 
spoken  in  the  *  Korlo-tem,'  \.K6l0'ttm\  or  Black  Country,  having 
Birmingham  for  its  capital;  6th,  the  Northern.  We  do  not 
altogether  agree  with  this  classification,  but  it  is  interesting 
as  a  Gypsy's  own,  and  we  give  it  for  what  it  is  worth. 

In  addition,  there  is  the  Kirk  Yetholm  ot  Scotch  Gjrpsy 
dialect,  which  is  very  corrupt,  and  anything  but  copious. 
Lastly,  there  is  the  Welsh  Gypsy  dialect  spoken  by  the  Woods, 
Williamses,  Joneses,  etc.,  who  have  a  reputation  for  speaking 
Meep,'  but  who  mix  Romani  words  with  'Lavenes,'  1.^.,  the 
language  of  the  Principality. 

For  practical  purposes,  the  English  Gypsy  tongue  may  be 
conveniently  considered  as  consisting  of  two  great  divisions, 
viz., — 

I  St.  The  Common  wide-spread  corrupt  dialect,  "quod 
semper,  quod  ubique,  quod  ab  omnibus,"  containing  but  few 
inflexions,  and  mixed  to  a  greater  or  less  extent  with  English, 
and  conforming  to  the  English  method  in  the  arrangement 
of  the  sentences.  This  is  the  vulgar  tongue  in  every-day 
use  by  ordinary  Gypsies. 

2nd.  The  '  Deep  *  or  old  dialect,  known  only  to  a  few  aged 
Gypsies,  which  contains  many  inflexions  and  idioms;  which 
has  its  own  *ordo  verborum;'  which  closely  resembles  the 
principal  Continental  Gypsy  dialects,  e,gy  the  German,  Turkish, 
etc.;  and  which  contains  a  minimum  admixture  of  English 
words.  This  last,  which  will  soon  cease  to  exist,  is  par 
excellence  the  Gypsy  language,  of  which  the  first  is  merely 
the  corruption. 

Posh-Romanes,  the  corrupt  broken  dialect,  is  of  course 
intermixed  with  provincialisms,  and  this  varies  in  different 
parts  of  England.  If  an  infusion  of  broad  Yorkshire  be 
the  excipient,  the  resultant  mixture  is  not  the  same  as  when 
the  vehicle  is  East  Anglian.  Seeing  that  Gypsies  speak  English 
like  that  of  the  surrounding  population,  it  must  happen  that 
in  turning  English  colloquialisms  into  Romanes,  they  follow 
the  prevailing  idiom  of  the  district  they  frequent,  and  thus  may 
arise  special  modes  of  expression.    Romanes  melts  into  the 


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shape  of  the  mould  into  which  it  is  cast ;  or,  to  change  the 
metaphor,  its  stream  may  be  said  to  take  the  course  of  the 
channel,  and  to  become  impregnated  with  the  soil  of  the 
country,  through  which  it  flows. 

Our  conclusion,  then,  is  this:  that  local  colouring  does 
not  aflfect  Romanes  proper,  but  only  the  medium  in  which 
it  is  conveyed  (pp.  x — ^xiii). 

George  Borrow,  in  his  Romano  Lavo-lil  (edition  1888), 
or  Gypsy  Word-book,  remarks  (pp.  3  to  6) — 

Before  entering  on  the  subject  of  the  English  Gypsy,  I  may 
perhaps  be  expected  to  say  something  about  the  original 
Gypsy  tongue.  It  is,  however,  very  difficult  to  say  for  certainty 
anything  on  the  subject.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  a 
veritable  Gypsy  tongue  at  one  time  existed,  but  that  it  at 
present  exists  there  is  great  doubt  indeed.  The  probability 
is  that  the  Gypsy  at  present  exists  only  in  dialects  more  or 
less  like^  the  language  originally  spoken  by  the  Gypsy  or 
Zingaro  race.  Several  dialects  of  the  Gypsy  are  to  be  found 
which  still  preserve  along  with  a  considerable  number  of 
seemingly  original  words  certain  curious  grammatical  forms, 
quite  distinct  from  those  of  any  other  speech.  Others  are 
little  more  than  jargons,  in  which  a  certain  number  of  Gypsy 
words  are  accommodated  to  the  grammatical  forms  of  the 
languages  of  particular  countries.  In  the  foremost  class  of  the 
purer  Gypsy  dialects,  I  have  no  hesitation  in  placing  those 
of  Russia,  Wallachia,  Bulgaria,  and  Transylvania.  They  are 
so  alike,  that  he  who  speaks  one  of  them  can  make  himself 
very  well  understood  by  those  who  speak  any  of  the  rest ;  from 
whence  it  may  reasonably  be  inferred  that  none  of  them  can 
differ  much  fron^  the  original  Gypsy  speech ;  so  that  when 
speaking  of  Gypsy  language,  any  one  of  these  may  be  taken  as 
a  standard.  One  of  them — I  shall  not  mention  which — I 
have  selected  for  that  purpose,  more  from  fancy  than  any 
particular  reason. 

The  Gypsy  language  then,  or  what  with  some  qualification 
I  may  call  such,  may  consist  of  some  three  thousand  words,  the 
greater  part  of  which  are  decidedly  of  Indian  origin,  being 
connected  with  the  Sanscrit  or  some  other  Indian  dialect; 
the  rest  consist  of  words  picked  up  by  the  Gypsies  from  various 
languages  in  their  wanderings  from  the  East.  It  has  two 
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genders,  masculine  and  feminine;  o  represents  the  masculine 
and  f  the  feminize :  for  example,  horo  rye^  a  great  gentleman, 
hori  rani,  a  great  lady.  There  is  properly  no  indefinite  article : 
gajo  or  gprgio,  a  man  or  gentile ;  o  gajo,  the  man.  The  noun  has 
two  numbers,  the  singular  and  the  plural.  It  has  various  cases 
formed  by  postpositions,  but  has,  strictly  speaking,  no  genitive. 
It  has  prepositions  as  well  as  postpositions;  sometimes  the 
preposition  is  used  with  the  noun  and  sometimes  the  post- 
position; for  example,  cad  o  gav,  from  the  town;  chungale 
mannochendar,  evil  men  from,  i.e.  from  evil  men.  The  verb  has 
no  infinitive ;  in  lieu  thereof,  the  conjunction  '  that '  is  placed 
before  some  perspi^  of  some  tense.  '  I  wish  to  go '  is  expressed 
in  Gypsy  by  camov  te  jaw^  literally,  I  wish  that  I  go ;  thou 
wishest  to  go,  caumes  te  Jos,  thou  wishest  that  thou  goest  \ 
caumen  te  jallan,  they  wish  that  they  go.  Necessity  is  expressed 
by  the  impersonal  verb  and  the  conjunction  ^  that  * :  shorn  te  Jav^ 
I  must  go ;  lit.  I  am  that  I  go ;  shan  tejallan,  they  are  that  they 
go ;  and  so  on.  There  are  words  to  denote  the  numbers  from 
one  up  to  a  thousand.  For  the  number  nine  there  are  two 
words,  nu  and  ennyo.  Almost  all  the  Gypsy  numbers  are 
decidedly  connected  with  the  Sanscrit. 

Let  us  now  look  at  a  few  words  from  Yanik 
Ruzlomengro's  Ghili  on  pp.  2^ — 33,  and  note  their 
philological  affinities.  Sanskrit  roots  can  be  traced, 
according  to  the  authorities  at  our  hands,  in — bengt  imp 
{pangka  m\x6)yjalso  {ila  to  go),  sutto  sleep  {stibta  asleep), 
rai  gentleman  {raj  lord),  purro  old  {purQ,\  beshor  years 
(yarsha  year),  ^hilo  agone,  fropi  jal  to  go  {ild)y  jtvdas 
lived  {jiv  to  live),  tacho  true  {satyatd  truth),  Romnt 
Gypsy  fern,  ixama  husband),  mui  mouth  {mukha  face), 
^hunter  kisses  {(hum  kiss),  rateski  blooded  {rudhtra 
blood),  keror  houses  {g'riha  house),  jtnipen  knowledge 
{fnapH  understanding),  rashai  parson  {rishi  saint), 
hodas  she  ate,  from  hpl  eat  {^ala\  Hlo  swarthy  or  gypsy 
(kala  black),  kovtova  I  should  like  (kama  love),  nashtas 
he  lost  {nasa  to  lose),  ilan  tooth  {danta\  porno  white 
(pandu)y  yog  fire  {agni\  yokyor  eyes  {akshi  eye),  divio 
mad  {deva  a  fool),  hokanS  lie  {kuhana  h3rpocrisy). 

Hindustani  appears  in— puker  tell  {pukar  say),  yek 


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one  {yak)j  grasni  /em.  oi  grai  horse  {ghora\  bora  big 
{bura\  lavyor  words  {tapa  speak),  gono  sackful  {gon  sack); 
kel  dance  {kelna)y  puch  ask  {puchhna\  rdnt  lady  (ram), 
churri  poor  {shor\  koko  uncle  (kaukau). 

Russian  iti-^godlt  tale  (go/os  voice),  pUkinytis  justice 
of  the  peace  {pokoio  pacify),  dosta  plenty  (dostaet  it  is 
enough),  roker^d  talked  {rek  he  said),  ruzlos  strong 
(rosluy  huge),  tamlopen  darkness  (Jemnoy  dark)^ 

Modem  Gfeek  in — chtrosor  times  (xaipi^  time), 
dromyor .  ways  {Spofio^  course),  ztmtn  soup  (^ou/aI),  pt 
drinks  (wlvt^  to  drink),  patas  fun  (irail^fo  to  play),  Itas 
you  took,  from  liav  to  take  (Xa^Sc?  you  took)',  dukefi- 
pen  fortune-telling  {yvyr)  fortune),  kamorros  chamber 
{Kafiapa). 

Hungarian  in— =-/^^^  apple  {^pahoy\  nav  name  {nei)\ 
pesser^d  paid  {^fizetni  pay),  sig  soon  {sieto  quick),  kral- 
lisaikonez  queenly  {ktrhly  king). 

Persian  in — lolh  red  (/a/),  Gorgio  gentile  (f  cojia 
gentleman),  ghere  men  {kar  man),  shoondan  they  heard 
{shiniden)y  dai  mother  {daya  nurse),  Drdbengro  Doctor 
{daru  drug). 

English  ix\r^fatno  fine,  dtro  dear,  y&*«' folk,  mat  ray. 

As  will  be  easily  understood  there  is  no  settled 
orthography  for  Romany:  it  is  a  spoken  language 
only,  and  the  accent  and  pronunciation  differ  in 
different  districts.  In  the  ballad  the  northern  pro- 
nunciation is  fairly  represented,  if  the  general  rule  be 
followed  of  pronouncing  the  consonants  as  in  English, 
and  the  vowels  as  on  the  Continent. 

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ROMANI  GHILI.* 

Shuker,  mi  faino  rinkno  bengi, 
Jal  sutto  miro  diro  chor, 

Me  puker  'kova  rai  yek  godli 
Avri  o  purro  chirosor. 

Beshor  ta  beshor  ghilo,  raia, 

Adre  akova  tern  akai, 
Jivdas  'men  laki  nogi  foki 

Yek  tacho-bini  Romni  chai. 

Sas  mui  pensa  lollo  pobo, 
Mui  te  chumer,  prosser,  sav, 

Yoi  pirdas  pensa  rat' ski  grasni, 
Ta  Vasheti  sas  laki  nav. 

A  purro  Gorgio  piriv'd  lati, 
Boro  pukinyus  tai  sas-lo, 

Sas  lesti  keror,  puvor,  kottors, 
Ta  sorkon-kova  barvalo. 

Yo  pesserd  ghere  puker  laki 
Sar  lavyor  Gorginez  te  pen, 

Ta  kunjonez  te  siker  lati 
O  Gorgio's  gozvero  jinipen. 

Sig  jindas  yoi  o  chollo  gono, 
Dias  apre  pensa  rashai, 

Ta  sor  o  Gorgio's  dromyor  hodas 
Pens'  bauri  zimin  dova  chai. 


♦  The  dialect  in  which  this  ballad  is  written  is  the  deep  Romany  of  the 
north-country  Hemes  and  Boswells. 


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A  GYPSY  BALLAD.* 

Hush !  my  pretty  imp  of  Satan  : 

Go  to  sleep  my  own  dear  son. 
Let  me  tell  this  Rye  a  story 

Of  the  times  now  long  agone. 

Years  and  years  gone  by,  my  Rya, 

Just  hard  by  this  very  place 
Lived  a  true-bom  Gypsy  maiden 

'Mongst  the  people  of  her  race. 

Lips  had  she  like  apples  rosy. 

Lips  for  kiss  or  jest  aflame. 
Like  a  thorough-bred's  her  step  was — 

Vashti  was  the  maiden's  name. 

And  an  aged  Gentile  wooed  her. 

Mighty  magistrate  was  he. 
He  had  houses,  lands,  and  guineas. 

He  was  rich  as  rich  could  be. 

Tutors  hired  he,  who  could  shew  her 

How  to  use  the  Gentile's  speech. 
And  they  taught  her  all  the  wisdom 

That  the  Gentiles  have  to  teach. 

Quick  she  learned,  read  books  like  parson, 
Cleared  the  whole  bagful  at  a  scoop. 

All  their  curious  Gentile  customs 

Swallowed  down  like  good  snail  soup. 

*  Shorn  pazorros  ke  Drabengro  MacAlister  for  o  suggestionos  of  a 
gbiliengri  chivipen  adre  Gorginez,  ta  o  boro  kotor  of  kaUi  Tersari  si  kek 
(o  kek  bat)  purerdo  talla  o  yekto  nongo  chivipen  so  yov  komilez  bicherdas 
mandi. 


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30  Romani  Ghilu 

"'Glal  mandi  fomerova  tuti 
Yek  bitti  kova  mandi  del; 

Muk  mandi  yekos  dik  apopli 
A  tacho  purro  Romni  kel. 

'Dre  kavo  dui  beshor,  raia, 
Kek  kilo  mui  me  diktom; 

Puch  lendi  sor  akai  te  siker 
Sar  faini  r&ni  mandi  shorn." 

Kek  but  o  purro  rai  komdas-les, 
Nastis  yov  peiidas,  ^'Kek  nanai;" 

Ta  dosta  Romni  chelar  avde, 
Elakrachkinez  ke  mttlo  grai. 

Adoi,  'dre  lesko  boro  biuros 
O  Romni-chal6  pi  ta  h4 — 

Mai  mulo  dad!    Komova  dosta 
Mandi  shomas  odoi  kon&. 

O  rai  dikt  buino  ta  tullo; 

Krallisaikonez  yoi  sad. 
Yon   roker'd  s&lin  ketenendi 

Trustal  o  foki  yoi  jindas. 

"Kon  si  aduva  sikermengro 
Adre  o  kelinwardo  gad, 

'Dre  dui  diklos,  boro  skr&nyor?" 
Yoi  savdasy  "Miro  diro  dad/' 

O  paias  jald.    Yo  pucherd  lati, 
"  Kon  'duva  hola  j4  drovan  ? " 

Yoi  pendy  "Mai  koko,  kuremengro; 
Kek  pendan  nashtas'  yov  a  dan." 

"Ta  kon  si  purri  chovihani 
So  diks  jA  wafidez  'pre  men  ? " 

Yoi  pendas,  "Miri  churri  bibi, 
Tu  lias  trustal  dukeripen." 


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A  Gypsy  Ballad.  31 

"Ere  our  wedding,"  said  the  maiden, 

•*I  would  fain  one  boon  implore, 
'Tis  a  real  old  Gypsy  dancing. 

Let  me  see  one,  just  once  more. 

"Two  long  years  have  come  and  gone,  sir, 

Since  I  saw  a  swarthy  brow. 
Bid  them  all  come  here,  and  shew  them 

What  a  lady  I  am  now." 

Fain  the  old  squire  had  objected, 

But  he  could  not  say  her  nay, 
And  like  carrion-crows  the  Gypsies 

Flocked  together  to  the  prey. 

There  within  the  lofty  chamber 

Gypsies  ate  and  drank  amain. 
By  my  father's  corpse!   I  would  that 

Such  a  day  might  come  again. 

Stout  and  haughty  looked  the  squire, 

She  was  like  a  queen  to  view; 
JLaughing,  chafl&ng,  they  all  chattered 

Of  the  folks  that  once  she  knew. 

"Who  is  yonder  motley  dandy. 

With  a  shirt  of  strange  device, 
Pouble  kerchief,  spreading  boot-tops  ? " 

"Tis  my  father  dear,"  she  cries. 

Sped  the  fun,  again  he  asked  her, 
"  Who's  that  gorging  without  ruth  r " 

"'Tis  my  uncle,  sir,  the  bruiser. 
Scarce  you'd  think  he'd  lost  a  tooth." 

"Who's  that  ancient  beldame  yonder, 

Glowers  so  wickedly?"  he  said. 
"Tis  my  poor  old  aunt  you  locked  up. 

Telling  fortunes  is  her  trade." 


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32  Romant  Ghili. 

O  paias  jald.    Yo  pucherd  lati, 
"Kon  si  aduvo  ruzlos  rom, 

Posh  beng,  posh  duvelesto-ghero  ? " 
Nai  diktas,  pendas,  "  Kek  jinom." 

"Kon  dik  asar?"    yo  dinilez  pendas, 
"Yov  si  a  monushesto  chal." 

Yoi  acht  apre,  ta  porao  dosta 
Kerd  laki  kokeri  palal. 

Yog  hocherdas  'vri  laki  yokyor 
Sar  diktas  yoi  aduva  rom. 

"  Rai !   miro  nogo  pirino  sillo, 
So  penchdom  mandi  bisserdom.*' 

"Av  komlo!    Mandi  jova  tussa." 
Hokterd  graiakonez  o  chal : 

Ruzles  shundan  o  Romni  jolta 
O  boro  kamorros  adral. 

O  Romni-chaW  shelde  benges, 
Sor  divio  'vri  wafripen, 

Leld  bonnek  dosta  barv'lo  kalli, 
Ta  nashd  adre  o  tamlopen. 


Ta  posh  sas  lino  'pre  ta  stardo, 
Ta  posh  sas  nashkedo,  mai  rai, 

Ta,  tugno  dosta,  bicherd  pardel— 
Kekera  'duva  chal  ta  chai. 

Ta  'duva  chal  ta  chai,  mai  k&ri, 

Mai  boro  dad  ta  dai  sas-1^. 
Tacho!     Miduvel  rinkner  mandi 

Te  pukerava  hokanc! 

Yanik  Ruzlomengro. 


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Still  the  fun  sped  on — "Pray  tell  me 

If  that  stalwart  wight  you  know : 
Half  a  fiend  he  looks,  half  god-like." 

Eyes  downcast,  she  answered,  "No." 

"  Who  is  he  ? "  he  urged  unwisely, 

"Sure  he  seems  a  proper  man." 
Quick  she  rose,  and  deathly  pallid, 

Turned  the  Gypsy  youth  to  scan. 

Gleamed  her  eye  like  fire  out-flashing, 

As  it  met  the  man  she  sought — 
"Sir,  it  is  my  own  true  lover, 

He  I  deemed  I  had  forgot — 

"Come,  beloved,  take  me  with  you!" 

Like  a  battle-steed  he  sprang, 
And  through  all  the  banquet-chamber 

Gypsy  cries  of  rallying  rang. 

Yelled  like  demons  mad  with  fury. 
Surged  like  waves  the  Gypsy  horde. 

Seized  the  Gentile's  costly  treasures. 
Out  into  the  darkness  poured. 


Some  were  caught  and  long  imprisoned,^ 
Some  hanged  high  on  gallows  tree, , 

Some  were  sent  to  woful  exile — 
But  the  lovers  wandered  free. 

My  grand-parents  were  those  lovers. 
And  this  tale  I've  told  to  you — 

May  the  good  Lord  strike  me  handsome 
If  I  lie — the  thing  is  true. 


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THE  POET  AND  THE  PHILOSOPHER  IN  THE 
LAKE  DISTRICT. 


gHEY  had  just  returned  from  their  usual  summer 
tour  in  the  Lake  District,  and  were  sitting  one 
evening  discussing  the  situation  in  general  and 
their  late  wanderings  in  particular.  Suddenly  a  bright 
inspiration  came  into  the  poet's  mind — "Tell  you 
what!"  he  exclaimed,  "let's  write  a  magazine  article 
on  the  subject."  "  Yes,"  replied  the  philosopher 
dubiously;  "only  don't  let  it  be  the  regular  sort  of 
half  guide-book  humdrum."  "  Not  at  all,"  replied  the 
poet.  "We'll  make  it  something  new  and  original." 
"Matchless  for  the  complexion  and  worth  a  guinea 
a  box"  put  in  the  philosopher.  "Just  so,"  said  the 
poet.  "You  shall  treat  the  subject  scientifically  and 
philosophically,  while  I  will  relieve  the  austerity  of 
your  repiarks  by  pointing  out  the  more  poetical  and 
romantic  aspects  of  our  subject.  Suppose  then  you 
start  with  a  definition  of  the  Lake  District."  Where- 
upon the  philosopher  took  up  his  his  parable  and 
discoursed : 

"The  Lake  District  has  been  thought  by  the  most 
accurate  observers  to  be  a  quantity  composed  of 
constant  and  variable  factors,  though  they  haven't 
always  been  able  to  agree  as  to  which  are  which.  For 
my  own  part  I  would  divide  them  somewhat  as 
follows: — Constant  Factors,  natural  objects,  ^.^.  lakes, 
fells,  streams;  Variable  Factors,  unnatural  objects- 
trippers,  omnibuses,  staring  advertisements,  and  the 
like,  which  only  appear  during  part  of  the  year.  Rain, 
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for  though  they  are  not  always  openly  factorising,  yet 
I  am  sure  that  they  are  always  kept  in  stock,  of  the 
standard  sizes,  and  available  at  the  shortest  notice. 
Some  authorities  include  lakes  and  streams  under  the 
head  of  variable,  and  there  is  some  ground  for  doing 
so;  for  they  do  vary  to  some  extent.  I  have  known 
Ulleswater  rise  three  feet  in  a  night,  and  swamp  all 
the  low-lying  road  round  it :  there  is  one  small  cottage 
where,  on  such  occasions,  the  inhabitant  is  to  be  seen 
washing  his  potatoes  from  his  front-door  step,  and 
there  is  at  least  one  house  I  know  of,  where,  imder 
like  circumstances,  a  similar  operation  might  well  be 
performed  from  an  insular  position  on  the  kitchen 
table." 

*'  Easy  all ! "  broke  in  the  poet  at  this  point :  "  I 
find  I  have  something  that  will  fit  in  here."  Where- 
upon he  produced  a  manuscript  and  read  as  follows : — 

''Mine  be  a  cot  beneath  a  wood, 
Hard  by  a  lake  or  river's  shore. 
Whose  waters,  in  the  time  of  flood. 
Shall  lightly  sweep  my  kitchen  floor. 

Great  is  the  rapture  I  should  feel 
The  mantelpiece  my  seat  to  make, 

And  gaily  my  potatoes  peel. 
And  gaily  wash  them  in  the  lake. 

Thus  calm  and  healthful  would  I  live 

Free  from  rheumatic  malady; 
And  this  the  reason  I  should  give, 

I  alwajTS  am  uncommon  dry.'* 

"  The  becks  of  the  District,"  continued  the  philoso- 
pher, "are  worse  still,  as  after  heavy  rain  they  get 
too  flooded  to  cross  without  wetting  your  feet,  which 
is  awkward  when  there  are  would-be  crossers  of  the 
softer  sex;  in  this  case  you  have  to  set  to  work  and 
eng^eer  stepping-stones,  which  is  bad ;  and  then  you 
have  to  engineer  your  softer  sex  across  them,  which 
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"  So  much  for  the  definition.  I  propose  now  to  give 
a  few  scientific  notes  on  various  subjects  which  I  have 
jotted  down  at  various  times,  in  alphabetical  order  :— 
A — don't  know  anything  beginning  with  A.  So  pass 
on  to  B — Botany.  I  used  to  be  great  on  Botany  once, 
but  after  having  several  times  loaded  my  pockets  with 
large  quantities  of  the  commonest  plants  in  creation, 
and  carried  them  home  over  vast  distances,  expecting 
them  to  turn  out  rarities  or  aira^  Xe^ofieva,  or  such  like, 
I  have  somehow  lost  my  interest  in  that  subject. 
However,  I  might  say  a  few  words  on  the  famous 
yew  trees  of  the  Lakes,  which  I  suppose  will  come 
under  the  head  of  Botany.  Anyhow  put  them  there 
pro  tern. 

"  *  There  is  a  yew  tree,  pride  of  Lorton  Vale,'  says 
Wordsworth,  but  I  haven't  seen  it  myself,  so  we  must 
take  his  word  for  it."  (Here  the  poet  went  into  violent 
contortions  in  process  of  producing  a  very  obvious  pun 
on  Wordsworth.)  "  *  Worthier  still  of  note,'  continues 
the  same  authority,  *are  those  fraternal  four  of 
Borrodale.'  Now  I  have  seen  these,  and  photo- 
graphed them  too,  though  unsuccessfully,  probably 
from  all  those  unpleasant  characters  that  Wordsworth 
locates  there — 

"  Fear,  and  trembling  Hope, 
'*  Silence  and  Foresight,  Death  the  skeleton, 
"And  Time  the  shadows- 
having  moved  during  the  exposure.     But  I  encountered 
a  great  difliculty  with  regard  to  .these  trees.    Words- 
worth calls  them  a  fraternal  four,  while  I  only  found 
a  fraternal  three  and  a  stump.     Can  it  be  that,  in  spite 
of  the  immortalisation  of  Wordsworth's  verse,  one  of 
the  four  has  gone  the  way  of  all  trees  ?    Or  is  it  in 
consequence   of  the  said   immortalisation?     There   is 
another  tree,  growing  a  short  way  ofiF,  lower  down  the 
hill;  but  this  does  not  look  antiquated  enough  for  a 
fraternal;   in  fact  it  couldn't  with  justice  aspire  to  a 


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more  elevated  position  than  that  of  a  nephew  or  second 
cousin  twice  removed." 

**No  more  botanical  notes,"  the  philosopher  remarked. 
"Stop  a  bit,"  said  the  poet,  "I  have  a  small  piece 
which  had  better  come  in  here.    It  is  entitled 

Daffodils  (after  Wordsworth). 

I  wandered  by  a  blue  lake's  shore, 

That  snugly  lies  beneath  the  hills; 
I  stood  where  Wordsworth  stood  of  yore, 

And  saw  the  golden  daffodils : 
Though  many  years  had  passed  since  then, 
The  dafifodils  were  there  again. 

The  dancing  waves  were  dancing  still. 

Excited  by  the  gay  east  wind; 
The  trees  still  grew  beneath  the  hill. 

The  daffodils  the  shore  still  lined; 
And  everything  there  seemed  to  be 
To  make  the  jocund  company. 

But  though  the  wind  did  gaily  blow 

And  gave  occasion  for  a  spree. 
The  daffodils  quite  failed  to  show 

The  requisite  jocundity: 
They  really  didn't  dance  a  bit, 
And  were,  in  fact,  quite  out  of  it. 

At  Wordsworth  I  don't  mean  to  sneer, 

And  if  you  ask  me  to  confess 
The  reason  of  their  conduct  queer. 

The  cause  of  all  their  sulkiness. 
Why,  then  I'd  say  without  a  doubt 
The  daffodils  were  not  quite  out." 

'*  Let  us  now,"  said  the  philosopher,  "  proceed  to  the 
subject  of  Geology.  I  might  discourse  most  eloquently 
on  the  various  properties  and  relative  merits  of  Skiddaw 
slate  and  Ennerdale  syenite,  giving  the  pedigrees  of 
each  for  six  generations  back;  but  on  the  whole  I 
think  we'll  skip  that.  So  please  pass  on  to  Zoology^ 
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38     The  Poet  and  the  Philosopher  in  the  Lake  District. 

fauna  of  the  Lake  District  includes  a  great  number 
of  species — e.g.  the  horse,  the  cow,  the  pig,  the 
Herdwick  sheep,  the  homo  sapiens^  the  homo  decidedly 
otherwise,  the  cock  and  bull,  the  goose,  the  raven, 
and  many  more.  Among  the  species  which  occasionally 
visit  the  district  are  the  German  band,  the  steam  besist, 
and  the  organ-grinder.  The  Glacier  was  at  a  remote 
period  found  running  wild  over  most  of  the  fells ;  but 
the  race  is  now  unhappily  extinct,  its  place  being 
supplied  by  the  stone  wall,  an  extremely  common 
animal,  frequently  inconvenient  and  not  seldom 
absolutely  ferocious."  Here  the  poet  called  another 
halt,  and  again  produced  his  manuscripts.  ''This/' 
he  said,  ''is  called 

The  Wished-for  Gate  (again  after  Wordsworth). 

Hope  rules  a  band  that's  always  green: 
Of  all  the  mortals  ever  seen, 

The  foolishest  of  all 
Is  he,  who,  walking  o'er  a  hill, 
Expects  to  find,  where'er  he  will, 

A  Gate  in  every  wall. 

Know  then,  the  land  of  which  I  speak 
Is  far  renowned  for  lake  and  peak. 

For  crag  and  waterfall; 
Bat  the  rash  mortal  who  dilates 
Upon  its  practicable  gates 

Will  find  his  duties  small. 

Imagine  one  with  thirsty  tongue 
Toil  wearily  his  road  along 

Some  blazing  day  in  June; 
When  suddenly  upon  his  ear 
There  strikes  the  plash  of  water  clear; 

He  thinks  to  reach  it  soon. 

The  sound  renews  his  worn-out  vigour; 
He  toils  along  like  any  nigger, 
Though  he  feels  fit  to  fall; 


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Then  finds  him,  thirsty,  waterless, 
Obstructed  by  a  mortarless 
Exasperating  -wall. 

He  finds  it  quite  too  mild  to  swear: 
The  wished-for  gate,  it  is  not  there. 

Nor  till  the  end  of  time 
Shall  its  appearance  cheer  the  place: 
There*s  nothing  for  it  but  to  brace 

His  weary  limbs  and  climb. 

He  starts,  and  finds  how  oft  he  must 
His  weight  on  treacherous  footholds  trust. 

Oft  hang  on  by  his  hands — 
His  feet  slip  off,  his  hands  cling  fast. 
But  with  a  mighty  heave  at  last 

Upon  the  top  he  lands — 

But  still  the  fates  his  pains  deride; 
A  sheepwire  on  the  farther  side 

He  sees,  but  sets  at  nought: 
He  tries  to  jump,  his  feet  catch  in  it» 
And  in  a  fraction  of  a  minute 

Comparatively  short 

He  lands  upon  the  earth  once  more, 
And  does  as  Brutus  did  of  yore ; 
*    She  coldly  doth  receive  him 
The  beck,  still  prattling  o'er  its  stones 
Seems  to  deride  his  hollow  groans: 
And  there  I  think,  we'll  leave  him. 

"  Of  the  animals  I  first  mentioned,"  continued  the 
philosopher,  "the  most  important  is  the  Herdwick 
sheep.  It  is  a  small,  active,  black-faced  creature,  the 
the  chief  use  of  which  is  to  form  a  mark  at  which 
the  scientific  observer  may  roll  big  stones  from  a 
point  of  vantage  on  a  steep  hill-side.  N.B.  This 
practice  is  generally  perfectly  safe  for  the  sheep,  if 
you  only  roll  scientifically  enough." 

"Easy  all  again!"  broke  in  the  poet,  "and  let 
the  scientific  make  way  for  the  poetical  sheep.  This 
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(Hard)  Lines  on  a  Dead  Sheep. 

"Speed,  boulder,  speed,  for  I  have  spied 

A  sheep  upon  the  mountain  side; 

Speed  down,  and  hit  it  on  the  head, 

And  see  if  it's  asleep,  or  dead ; 

Speed  down  with  many  a  bound  and  leap 

And  hit  that  aggravating  sheep." 

Down  plunged  the  boulder  straight — but  no! 

For  when  within  a  yard  or  so, 

Though  rushing  with  terrific  force. 

It  lightly  overleaped  the  corse. 
"Speed,  boulder,  speed,"  I  cried  again. 

And  heaved  a  crag  with  might  and  main; 

Which  seemed  about  to  hit  it  quite. 

But  then  swerved  off  towards  the  right. 
"Speed,  boulder,  speed,"  I  cried  once  more. 

And  heaved  a  bigger  than  before: 

Off  rushed  the  rock,  down  plunging  fast ; 

Off  to  the  left  it  turned  at  last. 
"Speed,  boulder,  speed,"  once  more  I  heaved, 

And  this  time  I  was  not  deceived: 

The  rock  rushed  on  with  steadfast  track. 

And  hit  the  sheep  upon  the  back; 

But  still,  as  far  as  I  could  judge, 

That  tranquil  sheep  refused  to  budge; 

So  off  I  went,  disgusted  by 

Its  imperturbability. 

"We  will  next,"  resumed  the  philosopher,  "take 
the  goose  and  the  raven  together,  as  I  have  a  note 
which  bears  on  both.  While  walking  up  a  valley 
near  UUeswater  some  time  ago,  we  were  suddenly 
surprised  by  sundry  unearthly  sounds,  which  were 
immediately  attributed  to  ravens,  ghosts  of  ancient 
Britons,  or  something  similar,  half-a-dozen  legends 
being  invented  on  the  spot  to  account  for  the  alleged 
supernatural  phenomena.  Soon  after  a  flock  of  geese 
put  in  an  appearance,  and  a  sceptical  member  of  the 
party  claimed  the  merit  of  the  performance  for  them. 
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nation  by  the  rest.  In  such  a  romantic  situation, 
ravens  or  ghosts  (latter  preferred)  were  the  right 
thing  to  hear,  and  they  wouldn't  be  put  off  with  the 
commonplace  goose." 

"  I  remember  the  occasion,"  replied  the  poet,  "  and 
also  the  sceptic.  I  have  here  a  piece  on  the  subject 
entitled 

Credulity  (after  Wordsworth  once  more). 

A  croaking  noise  the  poet  hears, 
A  harsh,  discordant,  hideous  sound: 

He  stops  and  speculates  at  once 
Within  his  mind  profound: 
''What  species  can  the  creature  be, 

That  chants  this  odious  melody? 

Mowing  machines,  or  cats,  or  boys, 

Don't  make  this  inharmonious  noise.*' 

But,  these  alternatives  dismissed, 

An  inspiration  dawns  at  last. 
Which  peoples  all  the  rocky  glen 

With  spectres  of  the  past. 
*"Tis  ghosts  of  skin-clad  stone-age  men, 
Or  ancient  Britons  come  again  I 
These  sounds  I  hear  behind  the  trees 
Are  British,  or  else  stone-age -ese. 

And  see!  a  glimpse  behind  the  leaves 

Of  Draids  in  their  robes  of  white : 
I'll  just  note  down  the  whole  afifair; 

I'm  sure  I  must  be  right. 
The  hymn  they  sing  ain't  quite  in  tune! 
I  think  I'd  best  be  going  soon : 
There's  dampness  in  the  evening  breeze; 
I'm  ...  glad  I*m  hidden  by  the  trees." 

Then  making  for  the  neighbouring  pool 
The  white  procession  comes  in  view: 

The  poet  snatches  at  his  notes 
And  tears  the  page  in  two. 
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No  Druid  priesthood  grim  and  grey, 
But  rather  future  victims  they — 
Still  harshly  chanting  as  they  pass 
A  song  to  cease  at  Michaelmas. 

"During  the  last  few  years,"  continued  the  philo- 
sopher, "a  new  species  has  been  discovered — ^viz.  the 
Footpaths  Association,  which  is  found  in  a  wild  state 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  Latrigg." 

Here  the  philosopher. retired  for  a  short  time  into 
the  beer-jug,  and  on  emerging  continued  as  follows — 

"That's  all  I  have  to  say  about  animals;  but 
before  we  end  I  should  just  like  to  burst  up  a  certain 
fraud  I  know  of  in  the  Lake  district.  It  is  a  small 
tarn  on  the  side  of  Saddleback,  rejoicing  in  the  name 
of  Scales  Tarn.  Now,  exaggerating  writers  of  the 
last  century  used  to  describe  it  as  a  dark  and  dismal 
abyss  of  water,  situated  so  deep  in  a  cleft  in  the 
rock  that  the  sun  never  shone  upon  it,  and  they 
further  assert  that  the  stars  may  be  seen  reflected 
ill  it  at  noonday.  Long  ago  I  used  to  believe  most 
firmly  in  this  somewhat  preposterous  assertion.  How- 
ever, one  day  I  went  to  see.  It  was  exactly  twelve 
o'clock  when  we  siurmounted  the  last  ridge  of  moraine 
matter  (not  rocky  please  observe)  that  hems  in  the  low 
end  of  the  tarn,  and  there,  instead  of  the  dark  abyss 
of  Stygian  waters,  we  saw  a  small  blue  tarn,  rippled 
into  waves  by  a  gentle  breeze,  and  glinting  all  over 
in  the  bright  September  sun." 

"And  so,"  broke  in  the  poet,  "don't  believe  Sir 
Walter  Scott,  when  he  says— 

Never  sunbeam  could  discern 

The  surface  of  that  sable  tara, 

In  whose  dark  mirror  you  may  spy 

The  stars,  when  noonday  lights  the  sky. 

"By  the  way,"  continued  the  poet,  with  his  pro- 
fessional jealousy  now  in  fine  working  order,  "  I  don't 
admire  the  rhyme  of  the  first  two  lines.      Are  you 


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to  say  discern  and  tern  or  discarn  and  tarn  f  Perhaps 
the  latter  is  best,  as  the  first  might  be  ambiguous 
and  ornithological.  This  suggests  a  similar  dilemma 
in  the  well-known  lines  about  the  "  dark  brow  of  the 
mighty  Helvellyn."  For  you  must  either  say  that 
the  eagle  was  yetlin\  or  if  you  give  the  eagle  his 
fiill  and  proper  yell,  you  must  degrade  the  mighty 
mountain  to  Helvelling.  Perhaps  we  had  better  take 
the  first  alternative,  as  the  eagle  is  now  extinct  up 
there,  and  so  you  can't  hurt  his  feelings  by  insinuating 
that  he  dropped  his  final  ^'s.  Scott,  by  the  way, 
generally  got  mixed  when  he  tackled  the  Lake  District. 
For  instance,  he  confuses  Blencathara  and  Glaramara, 
and  the  famous  "huge  nameless  rock,"  which  he 
locates  on  Helvellyn,  has  long  been  a  standing  difii- 
culty  with  local  geographers.  Personally  I  have  my 
suspicions  of  the  line 

*  Dark  green  was  the  spot  mid  the  brown  mountain  heathen* 
Certainly   nothing    about    there    now   can    be   called 
dark  green,  and  there  isn't  any  heather,  brown  or  of 
any  other  colour,  within  a  mile  or  two. 

But  talking  of  Scales  Tarn,  I  think  that  the  ancient 
historians  thereof,  being  apparently  determined  to  haul 
in  a  good  big  lie,  neck  and  crop,  might  have  made 
it  much  more  poetical  and  ornamental: — 

This  is  the  sort  of  thing  I  mean — ^ 

Like  a  thousand  of  bricks  is  the  stream  of  the  Styx, 

And  as  dark  as  three  hullabaloos; 
And  the  waves  of  Cocytus,  they  dance   like  St  Vitus, 

Forming  excellent  blacking  for  shoes: 
But  blacker  by  far  than  those  specimens  are, 

Far  darker  and  murkier  $^11, 
Is  the  liquid  so  gloomy  that  lives  in  the  roomy 

Abyss  in  the  side  of  the  hill. 

This  terrible  water  makes  excellent  porter; 

Diluted  'twill  serve  you  as  ink; 
It  seems  like  a  sham  imitation  of  Cam,. 

Which  it  greatly  resembles  in  stink ; 


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If  you  want  a  receipt  for  to  putrefy  meat, 

Or  to  flavour  a  gooseberry  pie, 
Take  some  of  this  stuff  and  apply  with  a  muff. 

But  I  think  you  had  better  not  try. 

'Twill  colour  a  pipe,  or  make  beautiful  tripe, 

Frame  pictures  in  fancy  designs. 
It  makes  good  oil  for  lamps,  it  will  stick  postage  stamps, 

And  is  useful  for  blowing  up  mines: 
If  you  want  to  grow  rich,  or  to  bafQe  a  witch. 

Or  get  rid  of  a  fit  of  the  blues. 
For  the  slaughtering  of  rats,  and  for  polishing  hats 

This  water's  the  thing  you  should  use. 

The  rays  of  the  sun  never  shine  down  upon 

This  abyss,  where  I  really  declare 
You  may  see  with  your  eye  all  the  stars  of  the  sky, 

And  the  moon,  if  it  chance  to  be  there ; 
And  if  there's  no  breeze,  it's  a  matter  of  ease 

Each  bright  constellation  to  tell, 
For  each  has  its  name,  and  the  Greek  for  the  same, 

Written  under  it  neatly  and  well." 

"Now  that's  something  like  a  lie,"  remarked  the 
philosopher:  "After  that  I  don't  think  I'll  venture 
any  more :  suppose  we  dry  up."  So  they  done  it,  as 
Huck  Finn  was  wont  to  remark. 


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EXPRESS   TRAINS. 


Express  Trains^  English  and  Foreign.     By  E.  Foxwell 
and  T.  C.  Farrer.    London  1889.      . 

ll^EADERS  of  periodical  literature  will  recollect 
the  charming  paper  on  Express  Trains  con- 
tributed by  Mr  Ernest  Foxwell  to  Macmillan* s 
Magazine  in  February  1883.  In  the  form  in  which  this 
subsequently  appeared  in  1884  upon  Messrs  W.  H. 
Smith  and  Sons'  bookstalls  it  included,  as  if  by  accident, 
a  paper  read  before  the  Statistical  Society  in  September 
of  the  same  year  on  the  speed  of  the  principal  express 
trains  on  the  larger  railways  of  Great  Britain.  The 
volume  before  us  is  the  result  of  further  statistical 
investigation  upon  the  lines  of  this  paper  of  1883.  The 
particulars  of  express  travelling  upon  the  railways  there 
mentioned  are  worked  out  in  much  greater  detail,  and 
brought  up  to  date,  while  the  area  under  consideration 
is  widened  so  as  to  include  not  only  Great  Britain,  but 
Ireland,  the  Continent,  and  the  United  States.  As 
there  is  no  World-Bradshaw,  the  task  of  getting 
together  and  verifying  the  figures  has  been  a  heavy 
one,  and  Mr  Foxwell  has  found  another  railway 
enthusiast  to  share  his  labours;  but  the  method  is 
his  own,  and  we  imagine  that,  except  as  regards 
Part  II,  he  would  acknowledge  his  full  responsibility 
both  for  the  merits  and  defects  of  the  work. 

Notwithstanding  the  formidable  appearance  which 
180  pages  of  tabulated  statistics  present,  there  are 
many  of  us  who  will  find  a  good  deal  to  interest  us  in 
Mr  Foxwell's  figures.    There  is  plenty  of  room  for 


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bl  reliable  book  on  railway  speeds,  as  popular  notions 
on  the  subject  are  more  than  usually  misleading.  It 
is  still  an  article  of  faith  in  the  West  of  England 
that  the  'Flying  Dutchman'  is  the  fastest  train  in 
the  world,  and  its  average  speed  is  put  at  60  miles 
an  hour.  The  superannuated  servants  of  the  Great 
Western  cherish  a  dim  tradition  concerning  a  bold 
director,  who,  seeking  to  test  the  capacities  of  the 
Company's  permanent  way,  was  whirled  from  Padding- 
ton  to  Bath,  seated  in  state  in  the  Directors'  carriage 
behind  one  of  Sir  Daniel  Gooch's  broad  gauge  engines, 
at  100  miles  an  hour,  *  tearing  up  the  rails  behind  him.' 
According  to  the  reporters,  just  before  the  terrible 
accident  at  Long  Ashton  some  years  ago,  when  the 
engine  and  carriages  left  the  rails  and  hurled  themselves 
upon  the  impenetrable  wall  of  a  cutting,  the  *  Flying 
Dutchman '  ran  along  the  level  stretch  from  Bridgwater 
and  through  Bourton  station  at  8i  miles  an  hour.* 
We  ourselves  remember  more  than  once  timing  a  mile 
with  a  stop-watch  between  London  and  Swindon 
at  80,  when  on  pur  way  home  from  school,  but  the 
value  of  this  record  is  diminished  by  an  unscientific 
habit  we  then  had  of  counting  only  four  quarter-mile- 
posts  to  the  mile. 

These  delightful  dreams  of  speeds  attainable  Mr 
Foxwell  has  dissipated  for  ever.  No  legends  find  a 
place  in  his  volume ;  we  are  everywhere  face  to  face 
with  the  unimpeachable  record  of  what  has  been  actually 
achieved.  And,  as  usual,  the  ideal  is  one  thing,  and 
the  actual  quite  another.  The  average  speed  of  the 
•  Flying  Dutchman '  over  its  whole  journey  of  326 J  miles 
from  Paddington  to  Penzance  is  only  36!  including 
stops,  or  42^  excluding  stops,  while  over  the  fastest 
section  of  the  line  (Swindon  to  Paddington — 77^  miles) 
which  is  run  without  a  stop,  the  speed  is  only  52f,  or 

*  This  estimate  is  based  only  on  the  evidence  of  signalmen  in  successive 
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53  J  on  the  down  journey,  though  no  doubt  much  higher 
speeds  axe  attained  on  particular  miles.  Nor  is  this 
by  any  means  *  the  fastest  train  in  the  world/ 
According-  to  Mr  Foxwell's  tables  the  9.45  a.m.  Great 
Northern  from  King's  Cross  to  Leeds  runs  at  48^ 
including  and  51  excluding  stops  over  the  whole 
journey  of  185^  miles,  and  between  Grantham  and 
Doncaster,  for  more  than  50  miles,  it  rung  at  54. 
Again,  on  the  Midland,  the  4.3  p.m.  Glasgow  express 
runs  from  Normanton  to  St  Pancras  at  50  including, 
5 1  excluding  stops ;  wiiile  the  2  p.m.  (to  Manchester) 
for  72^  hilly  miles  between  St  Pancras  and  Kettering 
keeps  up  53.  The  up  day-express  from  Edinburgh 
caps  this  by  going  from  Nottingham  to  St  Pancras 
without  a  stop,  124  miles,  at  the  high  average  speed 
of  52.  Best  of  all,  the  North  Western  lo.o  a.m. 
express  from  Glasgow  to  Huston  travels  the  90J  miles 
from  Preston  to  Carlisle,  over  a  summit  of  920  feet, 
at  a  speed  which  averages  53. 

These  times  are  the  ordinary  times  of  1888-9, 
without  counting  the  extraordinary  performances  of 
the  *race  to  Edinburgh'  last  year,  when  all  railway 
records  were  broken.  Mr  Foxwell's  spirited  account 
of  this  is  quite  the  best  thing  in  the  book,  and  stirs  the 
blood  of  the  reader  like  the  story  of  some  great  battle. 
It  will  be  enough  to  note  here  the  final  result  of  the 
contest.  From  August  14 — 31  the  West  Coast 
Companies  (North  Western  and  Caledonian)  carried 
passengers  in  (nominally)  eight  hours  from  Euston  to 
Edinburgh  (400J  miles)  at  a  speed  of  50  miles  an 
hour  including  and  53 J  excluding  stops — i.e.  faster 
over  the  whole  distance  than  the  *  Flying  Dutchman ' 
in  the  comparatively  short  run  of  77J  miles  from 
Swindon  to  Paddington;  but  this  official  timing  was 
improved  upon  every  day.  From  Preston  to  Carlisle 
(90^  miles)  and  Carlisle  to  Edinburgh  (loof  miles) 
the  speed  was  54.  At  the  same  time  the  East  Coast 
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reaching  Edinburgh  by  their  somewhat  shorter  route 
(392J  miles)  in  7J  hours,  travelling  the  whole  distance 
at  50}  including  and  54  excluding  stops,  and  doing 
the  82J  miles  from  Grantham  to  York  at  56J.  Mr 
Foxwell  notes  on  this  journey  a  run  of  four  successive 
miles  at  76 J  miles  an  hour,  checked  by  two  observers. 
Thus  the  *  Flying  Dutchman '  has  been  left  far  behind 
by  the  enterprise  of  the  great  northern  companies, 
besides  being  outdone  by  its  own  companion  train 
the  'Zulu,'  put  on  ten  years  ago.  It  is  also  worth 
noting  that  all  the  trains  that  beat  it,  including  the 
expresses  of  the  *  race,'  carried  third  class  passengers, 
while  the  Great  Western  adheres  to  its  policy  of  first 
and  second  only  as  regards  the  *  Dutchman' ;  tiie  *Zulu' 
now  admits  third  class. 

The  statistics  of  the  Continental  and  American 
railways  are  naturally  less  interesting  to  us  than  our 
own,  and  their  performances  are  for  the  most  part 
(except  in  America)  very  inferior.  The  best  American 
train  is  the  4.13  p.m.  from  Jersey  City  to  Philadelphia 
on  the  Pennsylvania  Line  (89I  miles).  The  speed 
is  48I  including  and  49  excluding  stops.  The  best 
running  is  between  Jersey  City  and  Trenton  (55!  miles) 
at  53  miles  an  hour.  Another  train,  the  9  a.m.  Mondays 
from  New  York  to  San  Francisco,  is  interesting  to  us 
because  of  the  enormous  distance  travelled.  The  train 
takes  nearly  a  week  to  cover  the  3,270  miles,  but 
the  time  of  actual  running  is  127!  hours,  and  the 
average  speed  including  stops  is  25f.  We  go  from 
London  to  Wick,  767  miles,  in  22  hours,  a  rate  of 
progress  which  would  see  us  in  San  Francisco  before 
the  close  of  the  fourth  day  from  New  York. 

The  Continental  trains  are  extremely  disappointing. 
France  leads  with  two  good  trains — ^the  bi-weekly  Luxe 
express  from  Paris  to  Bordeaux,  and  the  boat  train 
from  Paris  to  Calais — the  latter  the  result  of  the 
pressure  of  the  English  Companies  on  the  Nord^ 
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and  the  state  railway,  which  also  has  a  direct  line  to 
Bordeaux.  The  6.58  p.m.  Paris  to  Bordeaux  runs  the 
364  miles  at  42f  including  and  44^  excluding  stops, 
and  between  Les  Aubrais  and  St  Pierre  des  Corps 
(68^  miles)  keeps  up  45}.  The  11. 15  a.m.  from  Paris 
to  Calais  (183  miles)  runs  at  43  including  and  44 
excluding  stops,  and  between  Amiens  and  Calais 
(loi  miles)  keeps  up  44^.  The  English  trains  that 
correspond  with  these  would  come  very  low  down 
among  our  expresses.  The  best  Brighton  and  South 
Coast  trains  to  Brighton  or  Eastbourne  are  rather 
faster;  possibly  the  second-best  Great  Eastern  between 
London  and  Norwich  would  about  hit  the  mark. 

Next  to  France  comes  Holland,  with  a  train  from 
Flushing  to  Venlo  (130  miles),  leaving  at  5.5  p.m. 
It  runs  at  40}  including  and  41  f  excluding  stops,  and 
between  Flushing  and  Breda  (6i|  miles)  keeps  up  42. 
This  is  the  best  long-distance  train  (competitive),  but 
the  9  a.m.  from  Rotterdam  to  Amsterdam  (53J  miles) 
does  the  journey  at  46  without  stopping,  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  it  slackens  speed  through  the  five  chief 
stations  (one  of  which  is  the  Hague)  to  10  miles  an 
hour.  This  is  equal  to  any  of  the  second-best  English 
performances. 

Close  behind  Holland  comes  Belgium,  with  the 
4.40  p.m.  from  Brussels  to  Ostend  (76  miles).  It  runs 
at  43f  including  and  44^  excluding  stops,  and  from 
Bruges  to  Ostend  (14 J  miles)  keeps  up  45.  But 
Belgium  has  very  steep  gradients  for  some  of  its 
expresses  to  surmount. 

Grerraany  is  a  shocking  country  for  speed.  The 
much  vaunted  Orient  express  from  Paris  to  Constanti- 
nople (i,857i  Kiiles)  via  Strasburg,  Stuttgart,  Munich, 
and  Vienna,  only  runs  at  27  including  and  29  excluding 
stops,  and  for  this  Germany,  Austria,  and  Turkey  are 
chiefly  responsible,  for  the  speed  through  France  is  40^. 
As  Mr  Farrer  puts  it — *  an  inclusive  speed  of  40  miles 
an  hour  would  save  ii  hours  in  the  journey  from  Paris 
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to  Constantinople/  The  best  trains  in  North  Germany 
are  the  5.15  p.m.  and  9.7  p.m  from  Berlin  to  Hamburg 
Ci77i  miles).  These  run  at  37 J  including  and  40 J 
excluding  stops,  and  between  Hagenau  and  Btichen 
(2 9 J  miles)  they  are  timed  to  do  44.  Almost  as  fast, 
and  for  a  much  longer  distance,  are  the  12.6  noon 
and  10.30  p.m.  from  Berlin  to  Cologne.  These  are  at 
36  including  and  40  excluding  stops,  and  on  one  section 
do  44J.  The  South  German  Railways  are  much  slowen 
The  best  train  is  the  2.20  p.m.  from  Mannheim  to 
Bile  (162  miles)  on  the  Baden  State  Railway,  but 
this  is  only  34  including  and  37^  excluding  stops, 
and  it  only  attains  a  speed  of  40  over  one  section. 
An  attempt  is  usually  made  to  disguise  the  actual 
slowness  of  the  South  German  trains  under  high- 
sounding  titles.  We  well  remember,  after  a  tedious 
course  of  German  *  Schnellzug,'  allowing  ourselves 
to  be  tempted  by  a  more  promising  sort  of  train, 
announced  on  the  time-tables  of  the  Main-Neckar 
Railway  as  a  *  Blitz-zug '  from  Frankfort  to  Heidelberg 
via  Darmstadt.  The  statistics  of  this  train,  which 
starts  daily  with  immense  pomp  and  circumstance,  are 
given  by  our  authors  thus : — Distance  55  miles ;  speed 
including  stops,  32;  excluding  stops,  34 J;  fastest  run 
(Darmstadt  to  Friedrichsfeld — 3 1 J  miles)  35  J.  Compare 
with  this  a  certain  broad-gauge  *fast  goods'  on  the 
Great  Western.  It  runs  nearly  four  times  as  far, 
Paddington  to  Exeter  (193^  miles);  speed  including 
stops  30,  excluding  stops  33I ;  fastest  run  (Swindon 
to  Bristol — 41^  miles)  35^.  The  heavily  subsidised 
Indian  Mail,  again,  that  runs  on  Friday  evenings  from 
London  to  Brindisi,  is  a  scandalous  train  in  the  matter 
of  speed.  From  London  to  Dover  it  runs  at  43,  but 
the  average  over  the  whole  distance  of  1,455  miles 
(including  the  15  miles  an  hour  from  Dover  to  Calais) 
is  only  26  miles  including  stops.  In  other  words, 
'the  Umbrtay  Etrurta^  and  Empress  go  as  fast  on  the 
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The  moral  of  our  authors'  investigation  of  Continental 
railways  appears  to  be  that  state  management  'is 
pison.'  Government  monopolies  lead  everywhere  to 
slackness  and  want  of  enterprise,  and  afifect  rapidity 
of  travelling  most  perniciously.  As  far  as  speed  is 
concerned,  at  any  rate,  competition  is  the  life  of  a 
railway.  Such  an  exhilarating  contest  as  the  race 
to  Edinburgh  would  be  impossible  under  a  Government 
control  like  that  of  France,  where  *  no  figure  of  the 
timebill  can  be  altered  without  the  consent  of  the 
superior  administration '—still  less  in  Algeria,  where 
♦the  Superintendent  of  one  of  the  railways  stated 
that  he  might  not  alter  any  passenger  train  one 
minute  without  'homologation'  from  Paris.'  This  is 
organisation  with  a  vengeance,  and  a  railway  dies 
of  over-organisation  quite  as  easily  as  of  the  opposite 
complaint. 

We  are  surprised  to  learn  from  Mr  Farrer  that 
•  the  average  actual  cost  of  running  a  locomotive  and 
train  does  not  exceed  i^  per  mile  at  the  utmost. 
It  is  therefore  clear  that  12  third  class  passengers 
at  id  each  per  mile  actually  pay  the  cost  of  working 
a  train,  while  any  number  over  this  is  profit.*  This 
explains  why  comparatively  empty  trains  {e.g.  the 
G.E.  through  Cambridge  to  Doncaster)  pay  never- 
theless. 

We  must  not  spend  any  more  time  over  the  interesting 
points  in  this  volume.  We  regret  that  the  authors 
confined  themselves  to  statistics  of  speed  only;  we 
should  like  to  hear  what  they  have  to  say  on  other 
aspects  of  railway  management  —  permanent-way 
making,  types  of  engines,  or,  better  than  any,  what 
might  perhaps  be  called  'railway  statesmanship' — 
the  considerations  that  determine  the  policy  of  our 
principal  companies.  Or  again,  they  might  take  to 
history,  and  do  for  the  North  Western,  Great  Northern, 
or  Great  Western — or  all  three  of  them — what  Mr 
Williams  did  for  the  Midland.     Even  the  subject  of 


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speed  is  not  yet  exhausted.  They  have  given  us  a 
sort  of  DebreU*s  Peerage  of  trains,  but  there  must  be 
a  vast  proletariat  of  ordinary  trains,  the  statistics  of 
which  might  yield  interesting  results  if  a  proper  census 
were  taken. 

The  new  volume  is  nicely  got  up.  A  capital  drawing 
of  the  latest  type  of  Midland  express  engine  appears 
upon  the  cover,  and  the  numerous  maps  are  excellent : 
the  coloured  maps,  the  like  of  which  have  never 
appeared  before,  must  have  cost  immense  pains,  and 
are  models  of  clearness  and  accuracy. 

Mr  Foxwell  and  Mr  Farrer  are  good  collaboraieurs  \ 
the  former  is  responsible  for  Great  Britain,  Holland, 
and  Belgium,  and  the  latter  for  the  remainder  of  the 
book*  Mr  Farrer's  manner  is  solid  and  reliable;  his 
very  matter-of-factness  inspires  confidence,  and  he  has 
the  air  of  a  bom  statistician.  Mr  Foxwell  is  as  usual 
graceful  and  suggestive ;  he  handles  his  figures  in 
a  pleasant  way,  and  charms  us  into  .taking  an  eager 
interest  in  tabulated  facts  in  spite  of  all  natural 
aversions.  The  contrast  between  the  two  manners 
is  one  of  the  attractions  of  the  book.  But,  in  spite 
of  Mr  Fo3;well,  we  lay  down  the  volume  feeling  that 
we  have  had  enough  of  pure  statistics,  and  long  for 
something  more  of  earth.  We  miss  the  delightful 
*  apology '  of  the  earlier  rhapsody,  which  now  appears 
condensed  into  three  pages  and  a  half,  under  the 
heading  *  some  effects  of  e3^press  speed.'  Anyone  who 
cares  about  railways  will  find  the  new  book  indis- 
pensable, but  it  is  not  likely  to  be  a  source  of  such 
genuine  pleasure  as  the  shilling  pamphlet  of  1884. 

J.  R.  Tanner. 


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Rev  Canon  F.  C.  Cook. 

The  Rev  Frederick  Charles  Cook,  to  whom  reference  was 
made  in  our  last  number  (xv.  505),  for  25  years  a  canon  of 
Exeter  Cathedral,  died  on  June  22,  at  his  residence  in  the 
Close.  Canon  Cook  graduated  at  St  John's  College,  B.A. 
1828,  when  he  took  a  first  class  in  the  Classical  Tripos,  and  M.A. 
in  1840;  and  he  had  been  in  the  ministry  for  just  50  years,  having 
taken  his  ordination  vows  before  the  Bishop  of  London  in 
1839.  He  was  appointed  preacher  to  the  Hon  Society  of 
X'incoln's  Inn,  canon  residentiary  of  Exeter  Cathedral  in  1864, 
chaplain  in  ordinary  to  the  Queen,  chapl^  to  the  Bishop  of 
Ix>ndon  in  1869,  and  precentor  of  Exeter  Cathedral  in  1872. 
He  was  formerly  one  of  her  Majesty's  Inspectors  of  Schools, 
and  before  coming  to  Exeter  held  a  prebendal  stall  in  Lincoln 
Cathedral.  The  deceased  was  a  ripe  scholar,  editor  of  the  Speakers 
Commentary^  ^nd  author  of  several  ecclesiastical  works.  Bodily 
infirmities  prevented  his  taking  an  active  part  in  the  Cathedral 
for  three  or  four  years  past,  and  a  few  weeks  before  his  death 
he  resigned  the  precentorship,  an  office  in  which  he  was 
succeeded  by  the  Dean.  Canon  Cook  leaves  behind  him  an 
exceedingly  valuable  library,  which  he  has  bequeathed  to  the 
Chapter,  and  it  will  find  a  place  in  the  new  cloister  building, 
in  the  restoration  of  which  the  late  Canon  took  great  interest. 

[See  Times ^  June  24,  1889O 


Rev  Dr  L.  Stephenson. 

The  Rev  Lawrence  Stephenson  graduated  as  Twelfth 
Wrangler  in  1823,  proceeded  M.A.  1826,  B.D.  1833,  D.D.  1844, 
and  was  elected  Fellow  in  1826.  He  was  Sadlerian  Lecturer 
until  in  1835  he  was  presented  to  the  College  Rectory  of 
Souldeme  in  Oxfordshire.  An  able  preacher,  whose  minis- 
trations were  valued  both  in  his  own  and  other  churches,  he 
nevertheless  held  no  preferment  outside  his  own  parish.  There 
he  devoted  himself  unostentatiously  to  the  quiet  round  of 
parochial  work,  making  bis  little  church  an  example  of  reverent 


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care,  if  we  except  the  chancel,  unfortunately  rebuilt  during  Mr 
Horseman's  incumbency  in  an  age  sadly  devoid  of  taste ;  whilst 
the  village  school  he  caiised  to  be  built  was  evidence  of  his 
care  for  the  young. 

The  oldest  of  our  College  Rectors,  both  in  University 
standing  and  in  the  tenure  of  his  cure,  he  passed  away  during 
the  early  morning  hours  of  21  June  1889,  in  the  88th  year  of 
his  age,  the  sleep  of  tired  nature  merging  unperceived  into 
the  long  sleep  of  death.  A,  F.  T. 


Rev  F.  W.  P.  Collison. 

The  Rev  Frederick  William  Portlock  Collison  was  the  eldest 
$on  of  the  late  Brown  Collison  of  Hitchin,  Herts,  and  was  bom 
22  May  1 8 14.  He  entered  the  College  in  1832,  graduated  aa 
Sixth  Wrangler  in  1 836,  obtained  the  Crosse  Scholarship  the  same 
year,  and  the  senior  Tyrwhitt  Hebrew  Scholarship  the  year 
following.  After  being  Naden*s  Divinity  Student  he  was  elected 
Fellow  in  1838.  In  College  he  held  the  offices  of  Hebrew 
Lecturer,  Librarian,  and  Dean.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Cambridge  Camden  Society  from  its  institution  in  1839,  being 
its  Treasurer  until  1 844,  and  contributing  to  its  official  publica- 
tion, the  Ecclesiologist,  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Committee 
for  restoring  the  Round  Church.  In  1853  ^®  accepted  the 
College  living  of  Marwood  in  N.  Devon.  There  the  material 
records  of  his  work  are  a  restored  Chancel,  an  enlarged  church-i 
yard,  a  Mission  Church,  and  a  Day  School.  In  1855  he  married 
Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  the  late  Dr  Thackeray  of  Cambridge,^ 
who  is  left  a  widow  with  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  When 
in  1857  ^^  Bateson  was  elected  to  the  Mastership,  Mr  France's 
name  being  withdrawn,  no  one  else  was  voted  for  but  Mr 
Collison,  who  was  at  the  time  quite  unaware  of  the  compliment 
thus  paid  to  him.  In  N.  Devon  he  was  appointed  Rural  Dean,i 
but  very  soon  resigned  the  office.  The  position  of  President 
of  the  local  Clerical  Society  he  found  more  congenial ;  and 
although  he  did  not  say  much,  his  opinions  on  matters  of 
biblical  criticism  and  ecclesiastical  controversy  were  weighty 
and  received  with  great  respect.  Failing  eyesight  obliged 
him  gradually  to  withdraw  from  public  work,  and  in  1885  ho 
resigned  his  benefice,  which  was  then  accepted  by  the  Rev  A. 
F.  Torry,  He  removed  to  North  London,  where  he  died  oa 
Friday  21  June  1889.  A.  F.  T. 


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Rev  Thoi^as  Crofts  Ward. 

The  young  and  devoted  clergyman  whose  name,  alas,  heads 
these  lines  was  some  five  or  six  years  ago  one  of  the  best  known 
and  best  loved  of  the  younger  members  of  our  College.  His 
tall  lithe  figure  and  dark  handsome  face,  his  charm  of  manner, 
his  prowess  in  manly  sports,  would  have  sufficed  to  win  him  an 
ordinary  popularity  and  will  still  be  a  title  to  wide  remembrance. 
But  all  who  came  into  contact  with  T.  C.  Ward  felt  that  he  had 
qualities  deeper  than  these. 

They  felt  that  they  were  in  the  presence  of  a  nature  sweet 
and  sunshiny  to  a  rare  degree,  yet  with  the  hidden  strength  of 
singlehearted  uprightness.  Such  a  man  cannot  live  to  himself 
alone,  little  as  he  thinks  of  it  he  must  give,  '  silently  out  of 
himself  as  the  sun  gives.'  And  certainly  it  was  so  with  Ward- 
''  I  think  his  influence  for  good  over  those  around  him,''  writes 
one  of  his  nearest  friends,  "  was  very  great  though  unconscious. 
His  simple  manliness,  his  sweet  manners,  and  his  transparent 
godliness  gave  him  influence  everywhere."  And  as  it  was  at 
Cambridge,  so  it  was  without  doubt  in  the  places  where 
afterwards  he  laboured  as  a  minister  of  Christ  till  he  fell  a 
martyr  to  his  mission  of  consolation  and  was  taken  from  us. 

Thomas  Crofts  Ward  was  the  second  son  of  the  late  Mr 
W.  G.  Ward  of  Nottingham,  and  was  born  March  9,  1 866.  He 
received  his  early  education  at  Newark  School,  and  came  up  to 
St  John's  in  October  1879.  His  rooms  during  most  of  his  course 
were  those  now  occupied  by  Mr  Harker,  F  3rd  Court.  His  elder 
brother  G.  W.  C.  Ward  was  already  a  member  of  the  College, 
and  a  year  or  two  later  his  younger  brother  H.  Ward  followed 
them.  *T.  C,'  as  he  was  called  for  distinction's  sake,  was 
well  known  in  L.  M.  B.  C.  and  on  the  Association  football 
ground,  but  he  achieved  most  of  his  athletic  fame  as  a  tennis 
player.  He  will  be  found  repeatedly  in  the  photographs 
of  the  L.  M.  B.  C,  the  'Eagles,'  and  the  'Byrons'  of 
his  day.  After  reading  theology  he  took  his  degree  in 
1883,  but  remained  in  residence  a  year  longer,  when  he  was 
ordained  to  a  Curacy  at  Northfield,  Birmingham.  About  the 
same  time  he  was  married  to  Sybil,  second  daughter  of  the 
Rev  Canon  Miles,  Rector  of  Bingham,  Notts,  by  whom  he  has 
left  two  children.    A  delicacy  of  the  throat  obliged  him  before 


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long  to  resign  his  Curacy,  and  he  accepted  a  Chaplaincy  at 
Madeira^  where  he  remained  eight  months.  Iti  1886  he  took  the 
Curacy  of  S.  Nicholas,  Guildford.  After  two  years  of  faithful 
work,  he  was  appointed  to  the  scattered  Country  parish  of 
Appleton-le-Street  with  Amotherby,  Yorkshire.  To  this  benefice 
he  was  only  instituted  in  October  1888,  but  in  the  nine  months 
which  alone  were  allotted  him  we  are  told  that  he  had  makle 
a  lasting  mark  on  the  parish. 

**  At  the  Confirmation  held  at  Amotherby  last  Easter,  he  pre-* 
sented  upwards  of  forty  candidates,  a  large  proportion  of  who!im 
were  adults.  His  quiet,  earnest,  and  reverent  manner,  and  his 
remarkable  power  of  sympathy^  especially  in  sickness  and 
trouble,  speedily  won  to  his  side  by  far  the  greater  pairt  of  a 
parish  in  which  there  is  much  active  Dissent.  The  vigour  that 
he  threw  into  all  parts  of  his  pastoral  work  was  remarkable.  • .  • 
We  scarcely  know  of  any  other  case  in  which  a  yoimg  priest 
has  effected  so  much  in  a  parish  in  so  short  a  time."  {Church 
Times.) 

On  Wednesday  17  July  Mr  Ward  buried  two  children  who 
had  died  from  diphtheria,  having  previously  visited  them  in 
their  illness*  He  played  lawn  tennis  on  the  Saturday  with 
his  old  proficiency,  and  took  two  services  on  Sunday  morning. 
In  the  evening  he  felt  indisposed;  nest  day  symptoms  of 
diphtheria  shewed  themselves,  and  early  on  Wednesday 
morning,  July  24,  he  passed  away.  He  was  buried  two  days 
later  in  his  churchyard  overlooking  the  beautiful  valley  of 
Ryedale,  amid  the  greatest  signs  of  the  sympathy  and  sorrow 
of  his  parishioners. 

Seldom  has  so  sudden  a  stroke  closed  a  life  so  full  of 
beauty  and  promise. 

"Whatever  record  leap  to  light. 
He  never  shall  be  shamed," 

for  there  can  be  no  record  of  Tom  Ward 

**  But  tells  of  days  in  goodness  spent, 
A  mind  at  peace  with  all  below, 
A  heart  whose  love  was  innocent." 


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Albxander  William  Potts  LL.D. 

Many  readers  of  the  Eagle  have  been  startled  and  deeply 
pieved  by  the  news  of  the  sudden  death  of  Dr  Alexander  W. 
Potts,  Head-master  of  Fettes  College,  an  old  and  most 
distin^ished  member  of  St  John's.  He  was  bom  in  the 
year  1834,  and  entered  Shrewsbury  Schqql  wder  the  late 
Prof.  Kennedy,  where  his  progress  to  the  VI  Form  was  unusually 
rapid.  Though  early  distinguised  as  a  scholar  of  brilliant 
promise,  he  did  not  neglect  his  physical  development,  but 
|>ecame  Captain  of  Football  aacl  Stroke  of  the  Sphool  Eight. 
)n  185X  I^e  entered  C^mbrid^e  a$  a  scholar  of  our  College,  and 
in  1858  gr^uated  as  aiecond  in  the  First  Class  of  the  Classical 
Tripos,  Chancellor's  Medallist,  and  Senior  Optime  in  Mathe- 
matics. His  appearance,  as  well  as  his  known  abilities,  in 
^ose  early  days  of  Undergraduate  life,  tall,  handsome,  earnest 
^d  commanding,  inspired  an  admiration  mingled  with  a  kind 
of  awe,  amounting  to  reverence,  in  the  minds  of  his  contem- 
poraries*; while  those  who  knew  him  least  recognised  the 
sterling  merits  of  a  genuinely  noble  character,  and  were  attache^ 
to  him  for  life. 

In  1859  he  was  made  Fellow  of  the  College^  and  after 
folding  an  Assistant- Mastership  at  Charterhouse  for  some  time, 
be  was  for  five  years  Master  of  "  the  Twenty"  at  Rugby,  under 
Dr  Temple.  There  he  married  Miss  Bowden  Smith,  the  sister 
of  a  colleague.  From  Rugby  he  was  called  in  1670  to  undertake 
the  work  of  organising  Fettes  College,  a  school  intended  to 
follow  the  lines  of  the  great  English  Public  Schools.  Jn  this 
work  he  was  accompanied  and  ably  seconded  by  C.  C.  Cot^erill, 
also  a  Johnian.  Under  the  most  favourable  circumstances  the 
task  would  have  l)ee|i  one  to  test  the  highest  energies  of  a 
gifted  man.  In  this  case  it  was  no^  lightened  by  certain 
narrow  prejudices  and  national  jealousies.  But  his  success  was 
conspicuous  in  overcoming  difficulties,  and  raising  the  school 
to  the  first  rank  in  scholarship  and  athletic  distinctions.     Fettes 


*  Calverley's  lines  in  the  verses  beginning  There  stands  a  city,  are  sale) 
to  refer  to  Dr  PotU : 

The  'long'  but  not  'stem  swell,' 
Faultless  in  his  hats  and  hosen, 
Whom  the  Johnian  lawns  know  well. 
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scholars  and  Fettes  football-players  are  too  well-known  at 
Cambridge  for  us  to  dwell  on  this  in  Dr  Potts*  praise.  But  it  is 
perhaps  not  so  well-known  here  that  his  success  in  teaching 
was  due  no  less  to  the  magnificent  earnestness  of  the  man,  and 
his  genial  loving  ways  with  boys,  than  to  his  brilliant  and 
elegant  scholarship.  Among  his  many  versatile  gifts  he 
possessed  a  true  love  and  appreciation  of  music,  which  he  was 
most  assiduous  in  fostering  among  his  pupils.  As  a  preacher 
he  was  gifted  with  extraordinary  powers  of  eloquence,  refined, 
earnest,  and  inspiring.  Indeed  there  can  be  little  doubt  that 
had  his  position  permitted  him  to  take  orders,  he  would  have 
been  accounted  one  of  the  most  eloquent  and  impressive  of 
pulpit  orators.  'His  keen  clear  eye' — writes  one  who  knew 
him  well,  both  here  and  at  Rugby, — '  his  gentle  smile,  his  lofty 
bearing,  his  stem  scorn  of  all  that  was  unworthy,  his  tenderness 
toward  the  defects  and  difl&culties  of  lesser  spirits '  will  live  long 
in  many  loving  memories.  And  such  as  he  was  here  and  at 
Rugby,  such  he  remained  in  the  fuller  promise  of  his  ripened 
manhood,  till  death  took  him.  Yet  with  ^11  these  high  gifts  he 
never  swerved  from  a  simple  childlike  faith  in  God,  and 
struggling  in  mortal  agony  he  gasped  out  this  message  to 
his  boys — 

*  I  wish  particularly  to  offbr  to  all  the  boys  at  Fettes  College 
(particularly  to  those  who  have  been  here  any  time)  my  grateful 
acknowledgments  of  their  loyalty,  affection,  and  generous 
appreciation  of  me.  I  wish  as  a  dying  man  to  record  that 
loving  kindness  and  mercy  have  followed  me  all  the  days  of 
my  life ;  that  firm  faith  in  God  is  the  sole  firm  stay  in  mortal 
life ;  that  all  ideas  but  Christ  are  illusory,  and  that  duty  is  the 
one  and  sole  thing  worth  living  for.' 

The  world  could  have  better  spared  many  a  more  famous 
man. 


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VEXILLO  OPUS  EST:  CONVOLABUNT* 

"Persons  advertising  in  The  Standard  can  now  have  the 
answers  addressed  free  of  charge  at  our  office,  28  St  Bride 
Street,  E.G." 

PUBLICA  quels  placuit  cupientibus  edere  uerba, 

Signum  cui  titulus  charta  diuma  patet. 
ediderint:   cupidis  fors  respondebitur ;   et  sic 

nostra  capit — merces  non  erit  uUa — domus. 
exstat  ab  octaua  uicesima  pilla,t  uetustum 

nomen  ubi  uico  Sancta  Brigitta  dedit. 
urbis  et  Augustae$  media  regione  locatur 

pandit  ubi  Phoebi  lux  mode  nata  iubar. 

Hawthornden. 


EPIGRAM 


On  a  font  removed  from  the  Church  into  the  Rectofs 

Garden, 

*12  feJi^  ay^SKKeiv  tah*  ^EiriaKoirqif  Sm  fie  TySe 
elSe^  VTT    apydKia^  avOo^opovvra  ti;;^9> 

$9  TO  irpiv  ISpvOel^  iepoZ^  ivl  Satfiaai  Xpiorov 
avOea  (f>indK(ai^  ovpavtai^  eff>epov* 

vvy  K  ai  xetv^  airoXwikCf  ra  S'  arOea  yi^iva  irdvra* 
&  7roT/i09  aX.7ii^66i9f  &  dKio^  ovkir*  ifiov, 

G.  A.  Selwyn. 

[The  chnrch  is  at  Bobbingworth  (Bovinger),  Essex:    the  above  is  a 
tme  copy  firoxn  an  autograph  found  in  an  old  Iliad,'] 


*  Cicero,  ad  Atticnm  x  17. 

t  Cf.  Catull,  xxxyii  2.    A  pUeatis  nona  fratribus  pilla, 

X  Augusta  Trinohcmtum  was  the  old  name  for  London, 


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ON  THE  CLIFF. 


Reclining  on  the  breezy  turf, 

High  up  above  the  sea-bird's  screech, 
I  hear  below  the  thundering  surf 

Drag  back  the  shrieking  shingle  of  the  beach. 

And  watch  the  wild  sea-horses  in  their  play 
Toss  their  white  manes  and  gambol  in  the  sun. 

Till  the  far  hills  reflect  his  setting  ray, 
And  all  the  glories  of  the  day  are  done. 

And  then  a  dreamy  stillness  far  and  wide. 

The  night-flower's  scent,  the  night-moth's  drowsy 
tune. 

The  distant  murmur  of  the  ebbing  tide. 
And  the  mild  splendour  of  the  Harvest  Moon. 

J.  B.  A. 


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CORRESPONDENCE. 

[The  fonowing  letter,  receired  from  an  old  and  loyal  Johnian  by  one  of  oar 
Editors,  will  be  read  with  interest.^EDD.] 

I  Monipellier  Terrace,  CAel/enAam, 

5  November  1889. 

My  Dear 

I  return,  with  many  thanks,  the  Eagles  for  March  and 
Jane  1889.  They  recall  so  many  memories  that  I  hardly  know 
which  to  talk  about  first. 

/.  313.  You  have,  I  see,,  a  quotation  from  Professor 
Kynaston's  Verses  on  the  50th  Anniversary  of  the  Oxford 
and  Cambridge  race  (xi.  455).  I  was  once  actually  asked 
whether  those  Verses  were  mine,  fic  oSroc  vyTiv  J^jy.  (This 
peculiar  expression  is  from  Demosth.  De  Falsa  Legatione,  §  361, 
p.  442,  rendered  by  Prof.  Scholefield  *  There's  for  you  now/) 

p.  315.  France  I  knew  a  little;  I  was  on  Atlay's  side,  after 
he  succeeded  Brumell.  He  (A.)  was  always  most  kind  to  me, 
from  the  first  day  that  I  went  to  his  Lecture  on  Livy  VI,  to  the 
day  that  the  Tripos  list  came  out,  and  since ;  his  son  is  at  the 
Cheltenham  College. 

/.  354.  I  should  have  been  fergeminis  svhlatus  konoribus  if  I 
could  have  secured  one  of  the  Reading  Prizes,  but  going  to 
Morning  Chapel  was  one  of  the  conditions,  not  always  observed. 

p,  356.  Parkinson  I  remember  well.  He  was  often  in 
Cheltenham,  though  I  never  saw  him,  but  heard  of  him 
tlirough  a  relative;  in  the  horrible  days  of  Math,  viva  voce, 
Parkinson  was  a  prominent  feature.  He  was  the  beau  idled 
of  a  Math,  machine,  but,  as  I  need  not  say,  something  more. 
I  recollect  his  being  Senior  in  1845;  I  was  at  School  in 
Cambridge  at  the  time. 

/.  362.  I  did  not  know  much  of  Babington  when  at  St  John's. 
He  once  preached  a  Sermon  on  The  Ptinciple  of  Accommodation 
(whatever  that  may  be)  and  set  a  question  bearing  on  it  in  the 


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Gk.  Test  paper:  I  heard  the  Sermon,  but  his  delivery  was 
pecaliar,  and  I  could  not  reproduce  it.  I  used  to  see  him  in 
Leicestershire :  there  used  to  be  a  Clerg}'man  of  his  name  at 
Cossington,  and  there  was  another  at  Rothley,  I  think.  He 
was  always  considered  a  very  learned  man. 

/.  366.  Paley  I  once  met  at  breakfast,  at  Dr  Jez  Blake's 
house,  in  1870.  He  was  kind  enough  to  write  me  a  courteous 
note,  on  my  asking  him  something  in  the  Oed,  CoL  (v.  569,  570), 
as  also,  by  the  way,  was  B.  H.  K.  My  old  Master  used  to  hold 
out  Pale/s  being '  gulphed '  for  Mathematics  as  a  warning  to 
me.  We  came  in  for  the  benefit  of  the  1849  Grace,  which 
dispensed  with  a  Junior  '  Pessime,'  as  I  once  heard  it  called,  as 
qualification  for  the  Tripos. 

/.  369.  Eamshaw  I  remember  by  sight;  his  sons,  my 
juniors,  went  for  a  time  to  the  same  school  as  myself. 

/.  372.  From  taking  the  duty  in  1 88 1  and  1 882  at  Forthampton, 
1  got  introduced  to  Mr  Yorke  ;  F.  is  close  to  Tewkesbury ;  you 
see  the  Abbey  grandly  from  the  Court  grounds.  Mr  Y.  was  a 
good  Scholar ;  we  used  to  have  many  a  chat  about  Virgil. 

/.  377.  Rev  £.  A.  Claydon  was  a  very  intimate  friend  of 
mine  when  we  were  at  the  old  College ;  he  was  an  Army  Tutor 
for  years,  and  a  most  excellent  teacher  he  was,  and  almost  as 
good  as  Bnimell  as  an  explainer. 

I  had  forgotten  that  B.  W.  Home  was  dead;  he  was  a 
wonderfully  good  Math.  Coach;  he  was  just  three  years  my 
junior  in  standing. 

Duckvoorth  I  saw  at  Weston  in  1885  :  he  was  a  good  teacher. 
Solari  I  recollect  well  by  name. 

/.  392.  I  have  met  Mr  Teall  in  Cheltenham. 

/.  392.  My  Auld  Coat  is  capital :  I  agree  with  the  writers, 
French  and  Scotch,  most  thoroughly. 

/•  395*  ^*  F*  Holmes  and  I  were  bracketed  in  the  Tripos  : 
(Mind  that  you  leave  Class  II  far  far  behind.)  I  did  not  know 
him  half  as  well  as  I  ought  to  have  known  him,  but  I  recollect 
him  perfectly ;  the  last  time  that  I  shook  hands  with  him  was 
in  the  Senate  House  in  1856,  when  his  brilliant  brother  Arthur 
recited  the  Porson  Prize.  He  and  I  read  with  the  same  Coaches, 
Thompson  (1848)  and  A.  M.  Hoare  in  1849;  H.  was  the 
longstop  in  the  Varsity  XI,  and  one  of  its  best  bats.  Read 
Eton  50  years  ago,  in  Macmillan  for  this  month ;  I  recollect 
*  Boudier,'  there  mentioned,  as  a  Cricketer  in  the  Cambridge 


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XI ;  he  went  ont  to  the  Crimea  as  an  Army  Chaplain,  and  the 
first  greeting  that  he  had  on  setting  foot  ashore  was  *  How's 
that.  Umpire  ?'  {jtyoro  It  irwc  Ixii^  fipajiev ;  as  the  Cheltonian 
rendered  it). 

A  398.  'Johnny*  Hymers  I,  of  course,  remember  well, 
though  not  on  his  'side,'  but  on  Brumell's  (p.  395) [B.  was  the 
best  explainer  of  Math,  difficulties  that  I  ever  came  across :  I 
have  some  of  his  work  to  this  day,  and  hold  him  in  the  highest 
respect :  he  was  always  very  (and  truly)  kind  to  me].  H,  was 
very  good  to  his  men.  I  recollect  being  very  much  amused, 
as  a  Freshman,  by  his  recommending  us,  on  giving  a  piece 
for  Hex",  to  imitate  Virgil  (we  spelt  the  name  in  that  way) 
as  much  as  we  could.  The  story  about  his  wanting  to  come 
back  appears  to  have  been  true;  it  was  reported  that  the 
College  said  'You  may  come  back,  if  you  will  come  as 
Juniorest  Fellow.'  Mr  Brook  Smith  and  I  used  often  to  talk 
about  him.  It  is  a  very  good  feature  about  the  '  Biographies' 
that  the  Schools  to  which  the  several  subjects  belonged  should 
be  recorded :  it  would  make  them  still  more  interesting  if  the 
Coaches  who  helped  them  Itierarum  lampada  tradere  (that  is 
not  meant  for  a  Hex^  should  also  be  recorded.  Hymers  was 
a  pupil  of  a  Mr  Birkett,  who  was  3rd  Wrangler  in  1822,  and 
who  was  once,  as  I  presume  you  are  aware,  Math.  Master  at 
Cheltenham.  When  there,  he  was  famous  as  a  whist  player 
and  dancer,  and  beau  gargon  generally.  Eamshaw,  whose 
Obituary  the  March  1889  number  gives,  was  also  one  of 
Birkett*s  pupils.     This  he  (B.)  told  me  himself. 

I  had  better  insert  here  something  that  may  interest  either 
yourself  or  some  friend. — ^A  book  catalogue  of  John  Hitchman, 
51  and  52  Cherry  Street,  Birmingham,  advertises  8  vols  of  the 
Eagle  (the  earlier  vols.  I  should  think)  half  calf,  for  28X.  The 
earlier  volumes  must  be  scarce  by  this  time. 

I  once  went  to  look  at  the  living  (Buckland)  lately  held 
by  Mr  Lorimer;  it  is  near  Evesham,  and  pretty  enough,  but 
rather  out  of  the  world. 

You  will  see,  from  all  these  maundering  recollections,  how 
much  I  find  to  interest  me  in  the  Eagle^  and  can  imagine 
how  dear  the  College  is  to  me.  I  am  about  10  years  the 
Master's  senior:  the  only  Don  who  is  at  all  of  my  standing 
is  the  President,  and,  by  the  way.  Prof.  John  Mayor :  I  am 
a  JitlJe  their  junior.     Mr  Pieters,  whose  election  to  a  Fellow- 


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ship  I  recollect,  is  my  senior.  Dr  H.  Thompson,  the  Senior 
Fellow,  was,  as  I  have  said,  my  Coach :  I  learnt  no  end  ftova 
him,  and  was  not  I  pleased  when  he  once  said  to  a  sentence 
of  Gk.  Prose,  *Ah,  that  will  do  I'  This  is  the  sentence — 
ciwOe  Zi  4  K$yo^po0vyri  cJc  fid^iara  veo^juiaai.  Good-b'ye :  I 
hope  you  may  never  have  to  reproach  yourself  with  not  having 
made  the  best  use  of  your  opportunities.  Take  care  of  your 
health;  Cambridge  is  rather  a  tiding  place.  Expect  me 
some  day  in  St  John's,  and  til]  I  come 
Relieve  me  always 

Very  sincerely  yours 
P.  J.  F.  Gantillon^ 


The  Rbadikg-Room. 

Dbar  Fagls, 

For  many  years  past  Johnians  have  been  in  the  habit 
of  pouring  into  your  sympathising  ears  their  woful  tales  of 
grievance  or  distress,  and  it  is  with  full  knowledge  of  this  fact 
that  I  now  venture  to  beg  for  your  indulgence.  Last  Term 
there  was  opened  in  this  College  a  Reading-Room,  and  ai\ 
admirable  committee  was  entrusted  with  the  management  of 
aifairs.  Much  as  this  committee  is  to  be  congratulated  on  its 
able  fulfilment  of  duty  and  its  excellent  code  of  rules,  one 
cannot  but  wish  that  it  could  see  its  way  to  effecting  two 
improvements  which,  though  perhaps  seemingly  little,  are 
nevertheless  important. 

It  is  in  the  opinion  of  many  Johnians  to  be  regretted  that 
the  Room  is  not  kept  open  till  lo  o'clock  at  night:  the  Union^ 
I  believe,  does  not  close  till  lop.m.  Another  point  in  which 
a  leaf  might  well  be  taken  from  the  older  institution's  book 
is  that  the  Room  should  be  opened  on  Sundays.  Sunday 
is  the  day  of  all  days  on  which  men  like  to  scan  current 
literature  at  their  leisure,  as  it  is  the  only  day  on  which  they 
are  not  hampered  by  lectures,  coaches,  and  the  like. 

Hoping  that  these  suggestions  may  meet  with  your 
approval  and  the  favourable  consideration  of  the  Readings 
Room  Committee, 

I  am. 
My  very  dear  EagU^ 

A  Well-Wishbr. 


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OUR  CHRONICLE. 

Michaelmas  Term,  1889. 

The  Right  Honourable  Leonard  Henry  Courtney  has  been 
elected  by  the  Council,  as  a  "  person  of  distinguished  merit/* 
to  an  Honorary  Fellowship  under  Statute  XXVUI.  The 
following  account  of  him  taken  from  Men  of  the  Time  will  be 
read  with  interest  by  Johnians.  "  Leonard  Henry  Courtney 
M.P.n  eldest  son  of  the  late  Mr  John  Sampson  Courtney,, 
Banker,  of  Penzance,  Cornwall,  by  Sarah,  daughter  of  Mr  John 
Mortimer,  of  St  Mary's,  Scilly,  was  born  at  Penzance,  July  6, 
183Z.  He  was  educated  at  the  Regent  House  Academy  in  that 
town,  under  Mr  Richard  Bajnes,  and  afterwards  privately  under 
Mr  R.  Willan  M.D.  According  to  a  memoir  of  him  in  Men  oftht 
West,  he  was  for  some  time  in  the  bank  of  Messrs  Bolitho  Sons, 
and  Co,,  in  which  concern,  his  father  was  a  partner.  He  went 
to  St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  in  1851,  and  graduated  B.A. 
as  Second  Wrangler  in  1855,  being  bracketed  First  Smith'3 
Prizeman.  In  the  following  year  he  was  elected  a  Fellow  of 
his  College.  For  some  time  he  was  engaged  in  private  tuition 
in  the  University.  In  1858:  he  was  called  to  the  bar  at  Lincoln*^ 
Inn.  He  was  appointed  in  1872  to  the  chair  of  PoHtical 
Economy  at  University  College,  London,  and  held  that 
professorship  until  a  lengthened  visit  to  India  in  the  winter  of 
1875 — 6  necessitated  his  retirement.  For  two  years  he  was 
examiner  in  Constitutional  History  in  the  University  of  London, 
1873 — 75.  In  1874  he  coniested  Liskeard,  but  polled  only 
329  voles  agaiixst  354.  recorded  for  Mr  Horsman,  but  at  the 
election  which  was  held  after  that  gentleman's  death,  Mr 
Courtney  gained  the  coveted  seat*  Dec.  22,  1876,  polling  388 
votes  against  281  votes  given  to  his  opponent,  Lieut.-Colonel 
Sterling.  He  was  appointed  Under-Secretary  of  State  for  the 
Home  Department  in  Dec.  1880.  In  August  1881  he  was 
appointed  Under-Secretary  of  State  for  the  Colonies,  \tk 
succession  to  Mr  Gram  Duff,  who  had  been  nominated  Governor 
of  Madras;  and  in  May  1882  he  succeeded  the  late  Lord 
Frederick  Cavendish  as  Financial  Secretary  to  the  Treasury^ 
Mr  Courtney  is  an  advanced  Liberal,  and  in  favour  of  the 
extension  of  the  principle  of  proportional  representation  ;  and 
he  is  also  in  favour  of  an  absolute  security  being  given  by 
legislation  to  agricultural  tenants  for  compensation  for  their 
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improvements.  He  has  been  a  regular  writer  for  the  Times 
since  i88ii.  In  i860  he  published  a  pamphlet  on  'Direct 
Taxation;'  and  to  the  Journal  of  the  ^statistical  Society  (1868)  he 
contributed  a  paper  on  the  '  Finances  of  the  United  States, 
1861—67.'" 

To  this  we  may  add  that  Mr  Courtney  held  for  many  years 
one  of  the  two  lay  fellowships  under  the  late  Statutes,  namely 
the  one  assigned  to  Law ;  that  assigned  to  Medicine  is  still  held 
by  Dr  Henry  Thompson,  our  Senior  Fellow.  Mr  Courtney,  as 
is  well-known,  is  Chairman  of  Committees  and  Deputy-Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Commons,  and  in  the  present  year  was  appointed 
by  the  Queen  a  Member  of  the  Privy  Council.  Mr  Courtney 
resigned  his  Fellowship  on  his  marriage  a  few  years  ago,  but 
for  some  time  previously  he  had  returned  his  dividends  to  the 
College.  These  constituted  a  Courtney  Fund,  out  of  which  the 
expense  of  numerous  useful  improvements  has  been  met. 

At  the  annual  election  to  Fellowships  on  November  4,  the 
choice  of  the  Council  fell  upon— John  Parker,  B.A.  (Seventh 
Wrangler  1882),  well-known  as  the  author  of  numerous  papers 
on  electrical  subjects;  Humphry  Davy  Rolleston,  M.B.,  B.C., 
B.A.  (First  Class  in  both  parts  of  the  Natural  Sciences  Tripos 
1885 — 1886),  who  has  in  succession  filled  the  posts  of  University 
Demonstrator  in  Anatomy,  Physiology,  and  Pathology,  was 
formerly  an  Editor  of  the  Eagle,  and  has  written  several 
important  memoirs  of  anatomical  and  physiological  interest ; 
and  Alfred  William  Flux,  B.A.  (bracketed  Senior  Wrangler 
1887),  Marshall  Prizeman  in  Political  Economy  1889. 

Among  the  writings  submitted  to  the  Council  by  the  success- 
ful candidates  for  Fellowships  were  the  following:  On  the 
thermodynamics  of  cryohydrales,  and  On  thermoelectric  phenomena^ 
by  J.  Parker ;  Trie  evolution  of  heat  from  netves  during  {a)  activity^ 
(3)  the  process  of  dying.  Observations  on  the  endocardial  pressure- 
curve,  and  The  causation  of  mitral  diastolic  mutmurs,  by  H.  D. 
Rolleston ;  Investigations  concerning  Newton* s  Rings,  by  A.  W. 
Flux. 

We  are  proud  to  announce  that  one  of  the  two  Smith's 
Prizes  has  been  awarded  to  H.  F.  Baker,  Fellow  of  the  College 
(bracketed  Senior  Wrangler  1887),  for  an  Essay  on  The  cam-^ 
pleie  system  of  148  concomitants  of  three  ternary  quadrics  in  terms 
of  which  ail  others  are  expressible  as  rational  integral  algebraic 
furutions,  with  an  account  of  the  present  theory  of  three  suchjporms. 
The  other  Pri«e  is  awarded  to  J.  H,  Michell  of  Trinity 
(bracketed  with  Mr  Baker  in  1 887)  for  an  Essay  on  The  vibrations 
of  cutved  rods  and  shells,  the  Adjudicators  'not  desiring  to 
assign  precedence  to  one  Essay  over  the  other.' 

The  Tripos  lists  printed  in  the  last  number  and  in  the 
present  will  show  that  St  John's  has  this  year  gained  a  large 
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elsewhere  brings  out  the  fact  that  we  have  more  than  any  other 

College.     The  following  statistics  may  therefore  be  of  interest ; 

they  seem  to  show  that  the  College  is  not  going  backward  as 

regards  the  quality  of  its  students : 

No.  of  first  cUusis  in  Triposes    1887     1888     1 889 

St  John's 17        20        30 

Trinity 29        28        25 

Total  for  all  colleges no      103      113 

The  Guardian  of  October  30  says  that  St  John's  can 
accommodate  222  residents  within  its  walls,  Trinity  about 
100  more,  and  Caius,  the  next  in  size  to  St  John's,  over 
80  fewer.  The  matriculations  on  October  21  showed  that 
946  students  had  entered  the  University  this  year,  as  against 
867  last  year.  The  largest  increase  in  particular  Colleges  is  at 
St  John's  and  Jesus. 

The  Master  has  been  elected  by  the  Senate,  and  Mr  Scott* 
our  Bursar,  by  the  Representatives  of  Colleges,  to  be  University 
Members  of  the  new  Borough  Council  of  Cambridge.  The 
Master  was  subsequently  appointed  an  Alderman  of  the  Borough, 
and  Mr  Wace  was  re-elected  Mayor. 

Mr  Scott,  the  Senior  Bursar,  was  on  November  7  elected 
without  opposition  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  Senate,  in 
the  place  of  Mr  Hill,  who  resigned  his  seat  on  going  out  of 
residence. 

Mr  Edmund  Boulnois,  the  new  Member  of  Parliament  for 
Marylebone  in  succession  to  Lord  Charles  Beresford,  is  a 
member  of  this  College,  having  taken  his  B.A.  degree  in  1862 
and  his  M.A.  in  1868.  He  is  a  J.P.  and  D.L.  for  Middlesex, 
Chairman  of  the  Marylebone  Board  of  Justices,  and  Member 
of  the  London  County  Council. 

Dr  Donald  MacAlister,  our  senior  Editor,  has  been  elected  a 
Fellow  of  the  Royal  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Society  of  London. 
On  November  7  he  was  elected  by  the  Senate  to  succeed 
Professor  Humphry  as  the  Representative  of  the  University  on 
|he  General  Council  of  Medical  Education  and  Registration. 
Professor  Latham,  of  Downing,  was  also  a  candidate,  and 
received  140  votes,  against  194  for  Dr  MacAlister.  The  contest 
excited  much  interest  in  Cambridge,  the  successful  candidate 
receiving  the  support  of  the  medical  faculty  and  a  majority  of 
the  resident  graduates.  Dr  MacAlister  has  been  appointed 
Vice-President  of  the  British  Nurses'  Association,  of  which  the 
Princess  Christian  is  President. 

Dr  William  Hunter,  Fellow  Commoner,  has  been  admitted 
a  member  of  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians  of  London.  He 
has  been  re-appointed  Arris  and  Gale  Lecturer  at  the  Royal 
College  of  Surgeons,  and  has  received  a  grant  from  the  John 
Lacas  Walker  Fund  to  enable  him  to  pursue  his  important 
researches  in  the  Pathology  of  the  Blood. 


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Sir  Donald  Smith,  K.C.M.G.  (LL.D.  1887)  has  been  elected 
Chancellor  of  the  McGill  University,  Montreal. 

Dr  Kynaston,  formerly  Fellow,  and  late  Principal  of 
Cheltenham  College,  was  installed  as  Canon  of  Durham 
Cathedral  and  Professor  of  Greek  in  the  University,  in 
succession  to  Canon  Evans,  on  August  8,  1889.  Dr  Kynaston 
(Snow)  was  Porson  Scholar,  Camden  and  Browne  Medallist, 
and  bracketed  with  Professor  Seeley  at  the  head  of  the  Classical 
Tripos  in  1857.  ^^e  recently  announced  his  appointment  by 
the  Queen  to  the  vicarage  of  St  Luke's,  Kentish  Town ;  this 
he  now  resigns. 

The  Imperial  Institute  has  expressed  a  desire  that  a  Pro- 
fessorship of  Swahili  should  be  founded  at  King's  College, 
London.  We  understand  that  the  Ven  J.  P.  Farler  (B.A.  1871, 
M.A.  1883)  recently  Archdeacon  of  Magila,  and  now  vicar  of 
St  Giles',  Reading,  is  likely  to  be  appointed  Professor. 

Professor  Babington  and  Professor  Liveing  have  been 
appointed  Vice-Presidents,  and  Mr  Larmor  one  of  the 
Secretaries,  of  the  Cambridge  Philosophical  Society. 

Mr  A.  E.  H.  Love  (Second  Wrangler  1885,  First  Smith's 
Prizeman  J  887)  has  been  appointed  a  College  Lecturer  in 
Mathematics  in  the  room  of  Dr  Besant. 

Sir  H.  H.  Lawrence,  Bart.,  and  Mr  F.  S.  Powell  M.P.  have 
been  appointed  by  the  College  to  be  Governors  of  Sedbergh 
School. 

The  Rev  John  Sephton  M.A.  (Fifth  Wrangler  1862),  formerly 
Fellow  of  the  College,  has  resigned  the  Head-mastership  of 
the  Liverpool  Institute,  which  he  has  held  for  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  century.  The  Liverpool  Daily  Post  in  commenting  on  the 
fact  says — **  Mr  Sephton  has  won  his  way  to  a  premier  place 
among  the  schoolmasters  of  his  time. . .  There  are  not  many 
Sephtons  in  any  one  generation." 

The  Rev  T.  B.  Rowe  (Third  Classic  and  Chancellor's 
Medallist  1856),  formerly  Fellow,  will  retire  at  Easter  from  the 
Head-mastership  of  Tonbridge  School,  which  he  will  then  have 
held  for  more  than  fourteen  years. 

The  College  has  presented  the  Rev  John  Wilberforce 
Doran  (B.A.  1856),  Vicar  of  Fenstanton  and  formerly  Scholar 
of  the  College,  to  the  Rectoty  of  Souldeme,  vacant  by  the 
death  of  the  Rev  Dr  Stephenson.  Mr  Doran  is  known  as  the 
author  of  several  works  on  Church  Music. 

The  Rev  C.  M.  Roberts  (B.A.  1857)  formerly  Scholar,  late 
Head-master  of  the  Grammar  School,  Monmouth,  has  been 
presented  by  the  College  to  the  Rectory  of  Brinkley,  vacant  by 
the  transference  of  the  Rev  F.  D.  Thomson  to  Barrow-on-Soar. 


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The  Rev  Delaval  Shafto  Ingram  (Thirteenth  Classic  1862), 
Head-master  of  Felstead  School  and  Archdeacon  of  St  Albans, 
has  been  presented  by  the  College  to  the  Rectory  of  Great 
Oakley,  vacant  by  the  resignation  of  the  Rev  J.  H.  Marsden. 

The  following  graduates  of  the  College  have  recently  been 
ordained  ; 

OrdinaHons, 

Parish, 
Newton  Kyme 

St  Mary's,  Leamington  Priors 
Tettenhall 

Parish  Church,  Haslingden 
Berners  Roding 
St  Mai'k*s,  Bamsley 

The  following  are  the  numbers  from  other  Colleges : 

Corpus,  5 ;   Trinity,  Jesus,  Christ's,  Non -Collegiate,  3 ;   Emmanuel,  St 

Catharine's,  Queens*,  Cams,  Pembroke,  Peterhouse,  2;  King's,  Trinity  Hall, 

Downing,  Clare,  Sidney,  I.    Total  34. 


September  OrdinaHons. 

Name, 

Diocese* 

Harpley,  T.  A. 

York 

Alexander,  H.  R. 

Worcester 

Tatham,  T.  B. 

Lichfield 

Field,  D.  T.  B. 

Manchester 

Botterill,  F.  W. 

St  Albans 

Ward,  E.  B. 

Wakefidd 

Trinity  Ordinations. 

Name, 

Diocese, 

ParUh. 

Ewing.  A.  G.  C. 

Canterbury 

St  John-the-Baptist,  Folkestone 

Herring.  J. 

York 

Goole 

Haigh,  A. 

London 

Bromley 

Sharp,  G. 
Mead,  A.  R. 

Bath  and  Wells 

Rowbarton 

Chichester 

All  Souls',  Eastbourne 

Palmer,  J.  J.  B. 

Ely 

Homingsea 

Sheldon,  A.  H. 

Exeter 

St  Leonard's,  Exeter 

Nicholl.  L.  H. 

Gloucester 

Thombury 

Way,  R.  F. 

Lichfield 

St  Paul's,  Walsall 

Bain,  D. 

Liverpool 

St  Paul's,  Kirkdale 

From  other  Colleges : 

Pembroke,  12;  Selwyn,  6;  Queens',  Christ's,  5;  Trinity,  Corpus,  Em- 
manuel, 4;  Caius,  Peterhouse,  3 ;  Trinity  Hall,  St  Catharine's,  Non-Collegiate, 
2;  King's,  Jesus,  Downing,  Clare,  I.    Total  56. 

Dr  Henry  Bailey  (B.A.  1839),  Rector  of  West  Tarring, 
sometime  Warden  of  St  Augustine's  College,  Canterbury,  has 
endowed  a  "  Canonry  of  St  Augustine  "  in  Canterbury  Cathedral, 
and  is,  we  believe,  to  be  invited  to  be  the  first  Canon  himself. 
The  endowment  is  only  a  capital  sum  of  ^'236,  so  that  the  post 
is  as  nearly  an  honorary  one  as  can  well  be  conceived.  Its 
purpose  is  that  some  one  connected  with  the  Cathedral  shall 
yearly  contribute  to  the  Church  some  sermon  or  address  upon 
Foreign  Missions. 

The  following  ecclesiastical  appointments  have  been  made 
since  the  issue  of  our  last  number : 


Name,  B.A,  from 

Hanson,!.  C.     (LL.B.1887)    C.  of  S.Mary,  Hull, 
LL.M. 


Pieipoint,R.D.  (1861)  M.A. 


V.  of  Thorpe  Ham- 
let, 


to 

V.  of  Thomton-cura- 
AUerthorpe  and  Mel- 
bum,  Yorkshire. 

R.  of  West  Halton, 
lincoln. 


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Name,  B.A^ 

Gathercole,  (1876) 

C.  W.  A. 


jTOfll 


to 


C.  of  Hanningfield,    V.  of  Camwortfay,  De- 
von. 


KynastOD,  H.,    (1857)  Senior   late    Prinripal    of   Professor  of  Greek  in 


D.D.,lateFellow     Classic 


the  Univeisity  and 
Canon  of  the  Cathe- 
dral of  Durham. 


Easton,  J.  G. 


Cheltenham  Col- 
lege, afterwards 
V.  of  S.  Luke^ 
Kentish  Town, 
(1876)  M.A.  late  Head-master  of  Y.  of  Ilketshall  St  Bto- 
Great  Yarmouth 
Grammar  School, 


Freeman,  G.  £.  (i845):*M.A. 

Forest 
Sherringham,      (1842)  M.A.    Archdeacon  of 

VenJ.  W. 
Atkmson,  R.  C.  (1858)  M.A, 


garet,  Suffolk,  on  the 
presentation  of  the 
Un 


niversity. 
P.C.  of  Macclesfield    V.  of  Askham,  Penrith. 


Gloucester, 
CofWath, 


Canon  of  Gloucester. 


Price,  H.  M.  C.  (1859)  M^A..    V.  of  Northam, 
Ransome,  M.  J.  (1883) 
-Roberts,  CM.  (1857)  B.D. 


Oxknd,  W.         (1869) 


Hanbury, 

W.  F.  J. 
Russell,  CD.     (1865)  M.A. 


y.  of  Yedingham, 

Malton. 
V.ofVaUeyEnd,Chob. 

ham. 
C.  of  St  Oswald,    R.  of  Croglin,  KuIlos- 

wald,  C^hsle. 
R.    of    Brinkley,     on 

raesentation    of    the 

College. 
Chaplain  of  KM.S.  /m- 

pregnabU, 


Malpas, 
Hd.-master  of  Mon- 
mouth Grammar 
School, 
Chaplain  of  H.M.S. 
Active^ 
Woodman,  H.    (1872)  M.A.    V.  of  Stockton-on-    Vrof*Dacre,  Penrith. 

Tees. 
(1872)  M. A    C.     of    Cheveley,    V.  of  Swanmore,  L  W. 
Berks, 
R.  of  Bleadon,  Asst  Dioc  Inspector  for 

Bath  and  Wells. 
Brittan,  C.  ('^53)  ^'^*    V. of Darley  Abbey,    R.  Dean  of  Duffield. 


Butcher,  W.  E. 

Hodges,  G.         (1873)  M.A. 

Ryder,  A.  C  D.  (1870)  M.A. 


C.  of  Stower  Pro- 
vost, 


Naval     Instructor     on 

H.M.S.  Cordelia. 

V.  of  St  Tames,Bttzy    R.  Dean  of  Thingoe. 

St  Edmunds, 
C    of   St   James,    V.  of  Highcliffe,  near 
Dover,  Christdiurch. 


J.  H.  Merrifield  (B.A.  1884),  Head-master  of  St  John's 
College,  Rangoon,  has  been  appointed  an  Extra  Assistant 
Commissioner  in  the  Burmese  Civil  Service.  He  has  been 
posted  to  Maliwun  in  the  Mergui  District.  A  handsome 
testimonial  was  presented  to  him  at  his  departure  by  the  masters 
and  pupils  of  his  school. 

A.  H.  Bagley  (B.A.  1888),  formerly  one  of  our  Editors,  is 
practising  in  the  Superior  Courts  in  Rangoon.  From  the 
frequent  appearance  of  his  name  in  the  reports  of  cases  in  the 
local  papers  he  seems  to  be  prospering. 

The  Marshall  Prize  in  Political  Economy  has  been  awarded 
to  Ds  A.  W.  Flux,  bracketed  Senior  Wrangler  1887. 

The  Harkness  Scholarship  in  Geology  and  Palaeontology  has 
been  awarded  to  Ds  T.  T.  Groom  (B.A.  1889),  Foundation 
Scholar. 


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Ds  G.  S.  Turpin,  Hutchinson  Student  of  the  College,  has 
obtained  the  degree  of  Doctor  in  Science  at  the  University  of 
London.     His  special  subject  was  Chemistry. 

Ds  £.  H.  Hankin  (First  Class  Natural  Sciences  Tripos 
1888-89),  Scholar  of  the  College,  and  lately  an  Editor  of  the 
EagU^  has  been  awarded  by  the  British  Medical  Association 
a  grant  of /*5o  to  enable  him  to  complete  his  researches  on  a 
novel  method  of  protective  inoculation  for  anthrax  (Siberian 
plague  or  wool-sorters'  disease).  Mr  Hankin  has  also  received 
a  grant  of  /'30  from  the  John  Lucas  Walker  Fund  of  the 
University  for  the  same  researches,  and  has  been  appointed 
a  George  Henry  Lewes  Student  in  Physiology.  One  of  our 
classical  Editors  suggests  that  Mr  Hankin's  motto  might  be 
Ivai  ^  dwavdpaKliofiiy  (Aristoph.  Aves  1546). 

J.  T.  Hewitt,  Natural  Science  Scholar,  has  gained  high 
distinction  in  the  recent  Intermediate  Examination  for  the 
B.Sc.  degree  of  the  London  University.  He  heads  the  list 
both  in  Chemistry  and  in  Physics,  fining  two  exhibitions  of 
/'40  avear  for  two  years,  and  the  Neil  Arnott  Medal  in  Physics. 
B.  J.  Mayes  has  gained  the  Gold  Medal  in  Classics  at  the  M.A. 
Examination  of  the  same  University. 

Ds  J.  Atlee  (Natural  Sciences  Tripos  1889)  has  gained  the 
Shuter  Scholarship  in  Natural  Science  at  St  Bartholomew's 
Hospital,  and  Ds  A.  G.  Harvey  (same  Tripos)  the  University 
Scholarship  at  Charing  Cross  Hospital. 

Ds  E.  J.  P.  Olive  (B.A.  1884)  was  admitted  on  October  17  to 
the  degrees  of  M.B.  and  B.C.    His  thesis  was  on  Hay  Fever. 

T.  H.  Arnold  Chaplin  (B.A.  Natural  Sciences  Tripos  1886), 
M.B.,  B.C.,  has  been  appointed  Resident  Medical  Officer  to  the 
City  of  London  Hospital  for  Diseases  of  the  Chest. 

Mr  J.  Johnson  Hoyle,  formerly  of  this  College,  has  been 
placed  at  the  top  of  the  list  in  the  Final  Law  Certificate 
Examination  of  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope  University  {fiafe 
Times,  Jnly  17,  1889). 

Professor  H.  G.  Seeley,  who  has  recently  returned  from  an 
expedition  to  South  Africa,  has  obtained  from  the  Karroos, 
among  a  large  number  of  other  treasures,  a  complete  specimen 
of  the  much-discussed  *  FarieasaurusJ 

Mr  C.  W.  Bourne  M.A.  (Twenty-ninth  Wrangler  and  Second 
Class  Classical  Tripos  1868),  late  Head-master  of  Bedford 
County  School  and  afterwards  of  Inverness  College,  has  been 
appointed  Head-master  of  King's  College  School,  London,  in 
succession  to  Dr  Stokoe. 

Mr  J.  Mashie  and  Mr  N.  Hard  wick  Smith  (B.A.  1884)  have 
been  appointed  to  the  staff  of  Mansfield  College,  Oxford. 


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The  Rev  E.  Hinchcliffe  M.A.  (B.A.  1882)  formerly  Munsteven 
Exhibitioner  of  the  College,  has  been  appointed  Head-master 
of  St  MichaeFs  College,  Tenbury. 

The  Rev  Arthur  Evans  (B.A.  1863),  formerly  Head-master  of 
Wigan  Grammar  School,  has  been  appointed  Head-master  of  the 
new  middle-class  school  at  Braintree. 

Ds  H.  B.  Stanwell  (First  Class  Classical  Tripos  1884)  has 
been  appointed  to  a  mastership  at  Uppingham. 

The  Rev  Charles  F.  Hutton  (B.A.  1881),  Warden  of 
Daventry  School,  and  formerly  Scholar,  has  been  appointed 
Head-master  of  Pocklington  Grammar  School. 

Lieutenant  A.  P.  F.  Collum,  of  this  College,  has  been 
gazetted  Captaia  of  the  3rd  Battalion  of  the  Royal  Inniskilling 
Fusiliers. 

An  appreciative  notice,  with  a  complete  bibliography,  of  the 
late  Professor  Paley,  appears  in  Bursian^s  Jahresbericht  for  1889. 
It  is  from  the  pen  of  Mr  S.  S.  Lewis.  He  says— "Sein  inniges 
Erfassen  der  Schonheiten  des  Geistes  der  griechischen  und  der 
lateinischen  Sprache  traten  in  manchem  Sinngedicht,  wie  in 
Epigrammen  aus  seiner  leichten  Feder  mit  Gliick  zu  Tage ;  in 
seiner  offentlichen  Laufbahn  war  ihm  ein  gewisses  odium 
theologicum  hinderlich,  wahrend  in  seinem  privaten  Leben  seiu 
Andenken  denen  unsagbar  tbeuer  bleiben  wird,  die  ihn  genauer 
kennen  lernten  als  ein  Mann  von  eigenartiger  Zartheit  des 
Geistes,  von  unerschixtterlicher  Ehrenhaftigkeit,  von  gewinnen- 
der  Anmuth  des  Benehmens  und  von  hochherziger  Anerkennung 
der  Erfolge  Anderer,  die  ihm  versagt  waren.' 

Gilbert  of  Colchester. — Just  as  we  go  to  press  this  week 
(writes  the  Eudrician  on  November  29)  there  is  being  held  the 
inaugural  meeting  of  an  Association  established  to  do  honour 
to  the  memory  of  the  founder  of  the  science  of  electricity. 
Although  to  every  electrician  the  name  of  Dr  Gilbert,  of 
Colchester,  is  more  or  less  familiar,  the  outside  public  is 
strangely  ignorant  both  of  the  man  and  of  his  claims  to  a  place 
in  the  roll  of  the  worthies  who  have  made  England  famous. 
What  Shakespeare  is  to  the  drama,  what  Raleigh  is  to 
geography,  what  Spenser  is  to  poetry,  what  Bacon  is  to 
philosophy,  that,  and  more  than  that,  is  Gilbert  to  the  science 
of  electricity.  Born  at  Colchester  in  1540,  and  educated  at 
St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  of  which  he  was  a  Fellow,  he. 
embraced  the  profession  of  medicine,  travelling  much  abroad 
in  the  prosecution  of  his  studies.  Great  distinction  awaited 
him,  and  he  rose  to  the  summit  of  his  profession,  becoming  in 
1599  President  of  the  Royal  College  of  Physicians.  He  had  for 
some  years  been  physician  in  ordinary  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  and 
at  her  decease  in  1603  was  continued  as  physician  to  James  I. 


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an  honour  cut  short  by  Gilbert's  death  in  November  the  same 
year.  His  fame,  which  even  before  this  extended  throughojat 
Europe,  was  based,  however,  not  upon  his  medical  distinctions, 
but  upon  his  experimental  studies  in  magnetism.  Living  alone) 
and  possessed  of  adequate  means,  he  expended,  as  is  recorded,  no 
less  a  sum  than  five  thousand  pounds  upon  his  researches,  and 
amassed  a  fine  collection  of  loadstones  ai^d  magnetic  apparatus, 
globes,  charts,  instruments,  hooks,  and  manuscripts.  Even 
before  he  had  published  s^  single  line  of  his  researches,  the 
fame  of  them  had  gone  abroad  through  the  scientific  men  in 
the  various  universities  of  Europe.  At  length,  in  1600, 
appeared  his  famous  book,  De  Magnetic  a  fine  folio  volume 
of  two  hundred  and  forty  pages,  the  Latin  text  printed  in  bold 
Dutch  type  by  Peter  Short,  of  St  Paul's  Churchyard,  and  illus- 
trated with  nameroqs  primitive  woodct^ts  of  h^s  apparatus  and 
experiments.  The  bqok  was  of  a  sort  whollv  novel  and  strange, 
even  to  the  learned  men  of  ths^t  time.  Men  still  lived  in  the  shadow 
of  medisBvai  modes  of  thought,  and  were  accustomed  to  have  all 
scientific  facts  wrapped  up  in  a  portentous  metaphysical  jargon., 
in  the  manner  of  the  disputations  of  St  fhomas  Ac^uinas,  and 
embroidered  witli  a  fripge  of  magic  and  m3rstery,  brimming  over 
with  erudition  and  speculative  n^ilosophv.  To  men  steeped  in 
such  literature  it  was  quite  mcon^prenensjble  that  vaduable 
scientific  facts  should  be  discovered  by  the  s\mple  device  of 
actually  trying  expepments ;  qu^te  inconceivable  that  any  one 
with  the  reputation  of  being  a  philosopher  should  set  them 
down  in  plain  unvarnished  (ashion,  without  attempting  to 
explain  them  by  occult  disquisitions  showing  their  relation  to 
the  mysteries  of  the  universe.  And  that  such  an  individual 
should  have  propounded  the  ins^e  notion  that  the  earth  it3^\f 
was  a  great  mag;net^  in  order  to  explain  why  compass  needles 
pointed  northwards — why,  was  it  not  known  that  the  grea^ 
Paracelsus  had  reported  that  the  compass  pointed  northwards 
by  reason  of  the  vi^ue  proceeding  forth  from  the  stars  in  the 
constellation  of  the  Great  Bear  ?  And  ha4  not  (he  immortal 
Cardanus  located  that  virtue  in  the  particular  star  at  (be  t;p 
of  the  Great  Bear's  tail  ?  And,  if  that  vas  not  explanation 
enough,  had  not  Maurolycus  discovered  in  the  great  North  Sea 
a  magnetic  island  which  would  even  draw  the  iron  nails  out 
of  the  passing  ships,  and  was  not  its  position  set  down  in  the 
charts  of  Plancius  ?  Why  then  should  they  listen  \q  tl\e 
new  doctrine  that  the  earth  was  itself  a  magnet,  on  the  mere 
suggestion  of  a  man  whose  philosophy  began  and  ended  with 
experiments  made  on  little  loadstones  ?  Nay,  worse  than  this^^ 
it  was  unendurable  that  the  man  who  had  so  abused  his  posi- 
tion as  a  philosopher  as  to  condescend  to  a  purely  experimental 
method  should  turn  round  and  poke  fun  at  the  philosophers 
for  their  stupid  magic  and  their  senseless  mystery,  and  curse 
them  for  darkening  knowledge  with  words. 

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though  it  won  the  admiration  of  Galileo,  and  secured  the  enthusi- 
astic adhesion  of  Kepler  to  the  new  doctrine  of  the  magnetism 
of  the  earth,  was  derided  by  the  wordj  philosophers  of  the  day, 
such  as  Scaliger,  and  even  by  Bacon,  whose  claim  to*  be 
regarded  as  father  of  the  experimental  method  is  based  on 
writings  of  fifteen  years*  later  date. 

To  us  as  electricians,  however,  the  main  interest  in  Dr 
Gilbert  centres  around  a  single  short  chapter  in  De  Magmte^ 
where  he  steps  aside  for  a  moment  from  the  immediate  subject 
of  the  magnet  to  discuss  the  attraction  excited  by  amber  that ' 
has  been  rubbed.  This  fact,  discovered  at  least  500  years 
before  the  Christian  era,  had  remained  an  isolated  fact,  save 
only  for  the  knowledge  that  jet  shared  a  similar  property. 
Concerning  amber,  as  concerning  the  loadstone,  there  had  grown 
up  a  luxuriant  crop  of  fabulous  mysteries.  These,  too,  went 
down  by  a  touch  when  the  master-hand  of  Gilbert  applied  the 
test  of  the  experimental  method,  and  showed  that  not  alone  amber 
but  a  vast  class  of  bodies,  which  he  termed  electrics,  including 
the  diamond  and  other  gems,  paste  gems,  glass,  shellac,  resin, 
mastic,  and  the  like,  possessed  similar  powers  of  attracting.  To 
test  their  power  he  devised  a  simple  electroscope.  He  discovered 
the  adverse  influence  of  moisture,  and  the  screening  action  of  an 
interposed  sheet  of  metal.  Not  without  some  blunders,  he  pushed 
his  way  into  the  region  of  the  unknown,  and  stopped  short  all 
too  soon.  Not  too  soon,  however,  to  make  good  his  enduring 
claim  to  the  distinction  of  being  the  first  electrician;  the 
spiritual  father  of  the  Guerickes,  the  Boyles,  the  Hauksbees, 
the  Stephen  Grays,  and  the  Franklins  who  followed  along  the 

Eath  he  had  trodden  alone.  Nor  do  his  claims  on  posterity  end 
ere,  for  he  founded  a  **  college,"  or  society,  which  used  to  meet 
periodically  at  his  house  in  Peter*s-hill,  Knightrider-street,  to 
discuss  philosophical  subjects,  of  which  ''college"  the  Royal 
Society  is  the  legitimate  successor.  That  he  has  been  so  little 
honoured  with  the  wider  fame  that  attaches  to  his  great  con- 
temporaries is  due  doubtless  to  the  circumstance  which  has 
robbed  us  of  his  own  precious  and  priceless  mementos.  His 
collection  of  magnets,  instruments,  charts,  and  manuscripts,  the 
outcome  of  a  life  of  ceaseless  activity,  he  bequeathed  to  the 
Royal  College  of  Physicians,  who  preserved  it  with  all  due  care 
only  to  perish  when  their  building  was  destroyed  in  the  Great 
Fire  of  1666.  His  house  at  Colchester  still  stands,  his  tomb 
in  the  church  of  Holy  Trinity  in  that  city  still  attests  his 
virtues,  and  his  memory  is  kept  green  at  Cambridge  by  the 
Johnians,  who  claim  him  as  one  of  the  honoured  worthies  of 
their  college.  But  his  true  monument,  a  monument  "more 
enduring  than  brass,"  survives  in  the  treatise  which  he 
bequeathed  to  mankind.  It  is  this  treatise  which  the  newly- 
founded  Gilbert  Club  proposes  to  reproduce,  Englished  in  its 
phrase,  but  preserving  with  scrupulous  fidelity  all  the  peculiarities 
of  the  original,  even  down  to  the  grain  of  the  paper  and  style 


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of  the  binding.  The  greatest  electrician  of  the  nineteenth 
century  has  been  by  common  consent  named  President  of  the 
Club,  and  the  rush  for  membership  in  it  is  a  proof  at  once 
of  the  worthiness  of  the  object  and  the  fitness  of  the  mode 
of  action  which  has  been  chosen.  The  republication  of 
De  Magnete  by  English  electricians  is  a  fitting  mode  of  com- 
memorating the  worth  of  this  great  Englishman. 

In  the  Transactions  of  the  Institution  of  Naval  Architects 
appears  a  memorial  notice  of  Dr  Joseph  Woolley,  whose  death 
we  announced  in  the  last  number  of  the  Eagle  (xv.  484).  From 
it  we  learn  that  Dr  Woolley  numbered  amongst  his  pupils 
Professor  Adams,  and  many  of  the  best-known  naval  architects 
of  the  day,  including  Sir  Edward  Reed,  Sir  Nathaniel  Bamaby, 
Mr  Barnes,  Mr  Crossland,  and  Mr  Morgan.    The  notice  adds — 

"Dr  Woolley's  high  mathematical  attainments,  and  the 
interest  which  he  took  in  applying  his  scientific  knowledge  to 
the  solution  of  many  of  the  intricate  problems  connected  with 
ship  design  and  construction,  enabled  him  to  render  the  most 
valuable  services  to  the  science  of  Naval  Architecture,  and  much 
of  the  progress  which  has  taken  place  during  the  past  forty 
years  must  be  attributed  to  his  labours,  both  as  a  teacher  and  as 
an  investigator.  His  appointment  to  the  School  of  Naval 
Construction  put  him  in  a  position  to  learn  how  very  backward 
the  theory  of  Naval  Architecture  was  in  this  country,  and  he 
earnestly  set  to  work  to  remedy  the  then  existing  state  of 
things,  with  a  success  to  which  the  Transactions  of  this 
Institution  bear  continuous  testimony. 

In  1 860  the  Institution  of  Naval  Architects  was  founded  by 
a  small  body  of  gentlemen,  several  of  whom  unfortunately  are 
now  no  longer  living.  The  story  of  the  foundation  has  been 
well  told  in  the  first  volume  of  Transactions  by  its  organising 
Secretary,  now  Sir  Edward  Reed,  K.C.B.,  M.P.,  F.R.S.  In  this 
foundation  and  in  the  subsequent  work  of  carrying  on  the 
Institution,  Dr  Woolley  took,  directly  and  indirectly,  a  large 
share.  At  the  opening  meeting  the  very  first  paper,  on  the 
appropriate  subject  of  the  Present  State  of  the  Mathematical 
Theory  of  Naval  Architecture,  was  from  his  pen,  and  he  subse- 
quently read  many  other  important  papers. 

As  is  well  known,  one  of  the  earliest  efforts  of  the  Institution 
was  directed  towards  influencing  the  Government  to  re-establish 
a  technical  School  for  Naval  Constructors,  and  when,  in  1 864, 
the  Royal  School  of  Naval  Architecture  and  Marine  Engineering 
was  founded,  under  the  joint  auspices  of  the  Admiralty  and  the 
Committee  of  Council  on  Education,  Dr  Woolley  was  very 
rightly  appointed  Inspector-General  and  Director  of  Studies. 
He  held  this  post  under  somewhat  modified  conditions  till, 
in  1873,  the  School  was  merged  in  the  Royal  Naval  College  at 
Greenwich. 
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was  nominated  by  the  Admiralty  a  inemb^r  of  Lord  Dufierin's 
Committee,  which  was  appointed  to  consider  many  vexed 
questions  relating  to  the  design  of  ships  of  war.  This  Com- 
mittee, in  their  very  able  report,  threw  much  Kght  on  the 
difficult  subjects  which  they  were  appointed  to  consider. 

When  the  qualities  of  H.M;S.  Inflexihh  were  called  in 
question,  the  Admiralty  appointed  a  committee,  of  which 
Admiral  Sir  James  Hope  was  chairman,  to  investigate  the 
subject.  Dr  WooUey  was  one  of  the  members  of  this  committee, 
and  his  participation  in  its  labours  was  almost  the  last  public 
duty  in  connexion  with  Naval  Architecture  which  he  was  called 
on  to  perform. 

Dr  Woolley  invented  a  very  elegant  method  of  ascettaining 
the  volume  of  the  displacement  of  a  ship  or  other  floating  body. 
When  the  Institution  was  founded  he  was>  in  recognition  of  his 
valuable  services,  elected  as  one  of  its  first  Vice-Presidents,  and 
in  1884  the  Council  bestowed  on  him  the  exceptional  honour  of 
electing  him  an  Honorary  Member.  His  services  on  the 
Council  were  no  less  valuable  than  his  scientific  contributions 
to  the  Transaciions  of  the  Institution,  and  his  high  qualities 
endeared  him  to  all  his  colleagues,  by  whom  his  loss  is  much 
regretted.'* 

Our  readers  afe  probably  aware  that  the  Rev  R.  P.  Ashe 
(B.A.  1880)  has  returned  to  England  after  hts  vety  trying  period 
of  service  with  the  Eastern  Equatorial  Africa  Mission,  and 
has  since  embodied  his  experiences  in  a  book,  Two  Kings  of 
Uganda,  which  has  received  a  good  deal  of  notice  in  the  press. 
St  John's,  however,  still  remains  in  the  van  of  the  battle  m  the 
person  of  the  Rev  Robert  H.  Walker  (B.A.  1879),  who  was  a 
close  college  friend  of  Mr  Ashe,  and  proceeded  to  Africa  rather 
more  than  two  years  ago.  Since  then  the  country  has  been  so 
disturbed  that  no  mails  were  received  from  the  missionaries 
from  April  23  to  November  23.  The  letters  now  to  hand 
were  written  from  the  southern  end  of  Victoria  Nyanza  on 
September  2,  after  the  arrival  of  Stanley  and  Emin  Pacha  on 
their  way  to  the  coast.  Uganda,  whence  the  missionaries  had 
had  to  beat  a  retreat,  was  still  ruled  by  Kilema,  the  creature 
of  the  Arab  slave-holders;  but  Mwanga,  the  dethroned  suc- 
cessor of  Mtesa,  had  established  himself  on  the  north  shore 
of  the  Lake,  and  seemed  about  to  regain  his  kingdom.  At  his 
request  Mr  Walker  and  Mr  Gordon  were  already  on  their  way 
to  join  him  at  his  new  capital,  on  the  island  of  Sessi,  when 
they  were  stopped  by  the  news  of  Mr  Stanley's  approach. 
Whether  after  seeing  Stanley  they  resumed  their  journey  is 
not  yet  known. 

It  is  something  to  be  grateful  for  to  find  marked  individuality 
escaping  classification  and  evading  ordinary  epithets.  This 
individuality  was  attained  by  the  late  Dean  Burgon ;  and  the 
calm  way  in  which  he  entitles  a  group  of  bis  friends  (and 


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relatives  even)  Twelve  Good  Men  19  quite  in  his  own  manner. 
Yet  they  were  good  men,  undoubtedly,  though  each  of  them 
would  have  resented  anyone  else  calling  him  so,  unless  he 
made  an  exception — that  perhaps  Burgon  might,  if  he  liked. 
The  book,  excellent  reading  to  anyone  who  is  willing  to  let  an 
author  speak  out  what  is  in  him,  is  redolent  of  Oxford  and  the 
Church  movement  there.  But  one  man  was  a  Cambridge  man, 
Hugh  James  Rose,  and  to  his  account  the  Dean  adds  as  a  Post- 
script some  words  on  his  own  brother-in-law,  Hugh  James* 
brother,  Heniy  John.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  St  John's  who  resided 
in  College  for  seventeen  useful  and  happy  years  {teste  Dr  Burgon), 
and  then  passed  to  the  College  living  of  Houghton  Conquest 
and  the  Archdeaconry  of  Bedford. 

He  went  out  as  fourteenth  Wrangler,  but  his  strength  was 
given  to  Classics  and  Divinity.  He  made  himself  a  capital 
Hebrew  Scholar,  and  that,  as  the  Dean  points  out,  when  there 
were  few  aids  to  that  study  available,  and  though  he  was  without 
the  private  means  so  needful  for  students  of  subjects  which  the 
Universities  and  Colleges  have  not  seen  fit  to  assist  from  their 
corporate  sources.  He  became  also  a  master  of  German,  and 
translated  one  of  Meander's  great  works.  For  a  short  time  he  was 
Minister  of  St  Edward's  Church,  but  only  for  a  short  time.  It 
is  pleasant  to  find  it  recorded  by  one  who  knew  him  so  well 
that  "No  man  was  ever  prouder  of  his  University  or  more 
attached  to  his  College."  The  Dean  quickly  lets  us  into  a 
close  sight  of  Henry  John  Rose's  temper  by  telling  us  of  a 
8a)dng  of  his  mother — *  Henry  never  hangs  up  his  fiddle.'  Some 
traits  of  character,  added  by  the  Dean's  skilful  hand,  give  a 
portrait-sketch  to  which  we  refer  our  readers  who  desire  either 
to  revive  memories  of  their  own  or  to  learn  something  of  one  of 
the  men  who  helped  to  give  the  College  a  warm  place  in  the 
regards  of  the  churchmen  of  the  last  generation,  especially  in  the 
diocese  of  Ely.  Honourably  known  to  theologians,  respected 
in  the  University,  he  made  Houghton  Conquest  a  high  type  of 
the  English  country  parish,  and  in  the  diocese  he  was  a  help 
to  his  Bishop,  and  a  guide  to  the  clergy  and  laity  of  the 
archdeaconry  entrusted  to  his  care.  All  this  was  known  before 
to  some  of  our  readers,  but  this  new  Postcript  is  especially 
welcome  to  us  of  a  later  generation,  who  always  like  to  hear  of 
the  worthies  whom  oar  fathers  knew  and  honoured  in  their 
College  days. 

Professor  Sylvester's  portrait  by  Mr  Emslie,  after  being 
exhibited  at  the  Royal  Academy,  has  now  been  hung  on  the 
west  side  of  the  dais  in  the  Hall.  It  is  in  striking  contrast 
to  the  somewhat  formal  pictures  in  its  immediate  neighbour- 
hood, but  its  life-like  resemblance  and  its  artistic  merit  are 
acknowledged  on  all  hands. 

The  earlier  of  the  two  Fellows'  Halls  has  been  changed  from 
4.30  to  5.30  in  the  afternoon. 


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The  net  sum  available  from  the  estate  of  the  late  Dr  H3rmers, 
to  be  devoted  to  educational  purposes  in  Hull,  is  a  little  under 
/'5o,ooo.    The  Hymers  College  has  already  been  commenced. 

We  have  received  from  Mr  J.  A.  Macmeikan  M.A.  (Eleventh 
Classic  1 871)  a  number  of  pieces  of  Church  music  composed  by 
him,  together  with  The  March  of  the  Paladins  (Wilcock  Bros.) 
and  a  sacred  song,  /  am  the  Shepherd  true  (Stanley  Lucas, 
Weber  &  Co.).  Mr  Macmeikan  is  also  the  inventor  of  a  number 
of  useful  and  ingenious  little  articles,  such  as  a  'Pocket 
Wardrobe,'  a  •  Magic '  Automatic  Adjustment  for  looking- 
glasses,  and  a  '  Fireside  Friend,'  or  fire-guard  and  dumb-waiter 
combined)  which  should  be  appreciated  by  residents  in  College 
rooms. 

The  article  on  Sir  Christopher  Wren  and  the  Old  Bridge  in 
our  last  number  (xv.   469)  has  attracted  the  notice  of  the 
architects,   and   is    reprinted    with    notes    in   the  Journal  of 
Proceedings  of  the  Royal  Institute  of  British  Architects  for  August  i, 
1889. 

The  glossary  appended  to  Professor  Skeat's  edition  of 
Chaucer's  Legend  of  Good  Women  and  to  the  Minor  Poems  is 
mainly  the  work  of  Ds  C.  Sapsworth  (First  Class  Medieval  and 
Modem  Languages  Tripos  1889),  Scholar  of  the  College.  His 
work  receives  complimentary  notice  in  The  Academy  of  August 
17,  1889. 

In  Church  Bells  for  July  19,  1889,  is  a  very  good  portrait  and 
biography  of  the  Rev  William  Moore  Ede,  formerly  Scholar 
(First  Class  Moral  Sciences  Tripos  1871)  and  Professor  of 
History  at  the  Newcastle  College,  now  Rector  of  Gateshead. 

The  preachers  in  the  College  Chapel  this  Term  have  been 
Mr  Caldecott,  the  Master,  Professor  Mayor,  Mr  Ward,  Mr  Cox, 
and  Mr  Hodges.  The  organ  has  been  partly  dismantled  for 
the  purpose  of  fitting  it  with  a  pneumatic  action  and  of  erecting 
in  front  of  it  the  new  carved  screen  designed  by  Mr  Oldrid 
Scott.  We  hope  to  publish  a  sketch  of  this  handsome  piece  of 
work  in  an  early  number. 

The  following  portraits  have  been  presented  to  the  new 
Combination-room  since  our  last  issue : — 

(i)  An  autotype  copy  of  an  engraving  of  "  Dr  Will" 
Gilbert,  Physician  to  Q^  Elizabeth,  From  an  Original  Picture  in 
the  Bodleian  Library  Oxford,  Harding  del.  Clamp  sc.  Pub, 
I  May  1796  by  S.  and  E.  Harding  Pall  MallP  [Dr  Gilbert  was 
Senior  Fellow  in  1569,  the  author  of  the  celebrated  treatise 
De  Magnete,  and  the  founder  of  the  modem  science  of  elec- 
tricity (p.  72).  His  statue  is  on  the  south  side  of  the  ChapeU 
For  Galileo's  opinion  of  his  merits  see  Eagle  xv.  i92.ll 
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(r)  A  carbon  print  of  a  lithographic  portrait  of  the  Reverend 

JOHN  Stevens  Henslow  (1796— 1861)  M.A.,  F.L.S.,  F.G.S. 
^rofessor  of   Botany    and    Mineralogy,    Rector  of  Hitcham, 
Suffolk.      Presented  by  the  Rev  William  Henry  Henslowe. 

(3)  A  beautiful  mezzotint  engraving  of  William  Wilber- 
FORCB,  with  the  inscription :  This  Portrait  of  William  Wilber/orce 
Esqr.  M,  P.  fot  the  County  of  JTork  engraved  from  a  Picture 
painted  by  J,  Rising  for  the  Right  Honb'  Lord  Muncaster,  is  with  all 
Respect  dedicated  to  the  Chairman  and  Committee  of  London  ;  and 
to  all  the  Societies  for  the  abolition  of  the  Slave  Trade  throughout 
Great  Britain^  by  their  Obedient  humble  Servant  fohn  Rising,  I: 
Rising  Pinx*.  C:  H:  Hodges  Sculp*,  London  Published  Feb:  \st 
1792  by  I:  Rising  Leicester  Square  and  T:  Harmar  No  164 
Piccadily. 

(4)  A  large  mezzotint  engraving  before  letters  of  Thomas 
Clarkson,  *the  determined  opponent  of  slavery.'  It  is 
engraved  by  C.  Turner,  from  a  painting  by  A.  E.  Chalon  R.A., 
and  was  published  17  April  1828  by  S.  Piper  and  Colnaghi. 

(5)  A  steel  engraving  of  William  Wordsworth,  with  the 
poefs  autograph,  "Octr  2nd  1841  Rydal  Mount''  '^ Painted  by 
Miss  Margaret  Gillies  Engraved  by  Edward  Mc  Innes,  London 
Published  Augt  6  1841  by  F.  G.  Moon  Publisher  in  Ordinary  to 
Her  Majesty  20  Threadneedle  streets  Nos,  (3),  (4),  and  (5)  were 
presented  by  Mr  Scott,  Bursar, 

(6)  A  photographic  portrait  of  William  Selwyn  D.D., 
Lady  Margaret  Professor  of  Divinity  (1855 — 1875),  by  means  of 
whose  gift  of  /'io,7oo  the  Selwyn  Divinity  School  was  built. 
Presented  by  his  widoWf  Mrs  Selwyn, 

Two  handsome  brass  sconces,  made  at  Keswick,  and  bearing 
the  arms  of  Bishop  Fisher  and  Archbishop  Williams,  have  been 
presented  to  the  smaller  Combination-room  by  Dr  W.  Hunter, 
Fellow  Commoner;  and  one  with  the  arms  of  the  Countess  of 
Shrewsbury  by  Mr  Tottenham,  Praelector. 

The  Index  to  the  first  fifteen  volumes  of  the  Eagle  is  being 
prepared  by  Mr  Sayle,  our  Assistant-Librarian,  and  will  probably 
be  ready  for  issue  next  Term. 

The  Editors  have  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  photographs 
of  Dr  Sandys  and  Mr  H.  S.  Foxwell,  for  the  Editorial  Album. 
Will  other  ex-editors  kindly  favour  them  with  their  portraits  ? 

Mr  W.  F,  Smith  has  been  appointed  an  Additional  Pro- 
proclor;  Dr  Bonney  an  elector  to-  the  Professorship  of 
Mineralogy;  Mr  Hart  an  Examiner  in  Elementary  Physics; 
Professor  Liveing  an  Examiner  for  the  Natural  Sciences  Tripos ; 
Mr  Larmor  an  Examiner  for  the  Mathematical  Tripos  Part  II ; 
Professor  Clark  and  Mr  W.  Wills  Examiners  for  the  Law 
Tripos;  Mr  Ryland  an  Examiner  for  the  Moral  Sciences 
Tripos ;  Dr  Sandys  an  Elector  to  the  Prendergast  Studentship ; 


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Mr  Mullinger  a  Member  of  the  Library  Syndicate  and  of  the 
History  and  Archaeology  Board;  Mr  Haakins  of  the  Local 
Examinations  Syndicate ;  Professor  Liveing  of  the  Observatory 
Syndicate ;  Dr  D.  Mac  Alister  of  the  State  Medicine  Syndicate 
and  of  the  Medical  Board;  Mr  H.  M.  Gwatkin  of  the  Divinity 
Board;  Mr  H.  S.  Foxwell  of  the  Moral  Science  Board; 
Dr  Garrett  of  the  Musical  Board ;  Mr  Scott  of  the  Financial 
Board ;  Mr  Wace  of  the  l4odging^house  Syndicate. 

Professor  Tucker's  Suppliers  of  Aeschylus,  just  published  by 
Messrs  Macmillan  and  Co.»  is  thus  inscribed:  2%is  book  is 
affectionattly  dedicated  to  Wii,liam  Embrton  Heitland  M.A., 
Tutor  and  formerly  Classical  Lecturer  of  St  John's  College  in 
token  of  a  grateful  and  admiring  recollection  of  his  singular  power 
thoroughness  and  unselfishness  as  a  teacher. 

The  following  books  by  members  of  the  College  are 
announced : — Th^  Supplices  of  Aeschylus  (Macmillan),  by  Pro- 
fessor T.  G.  Tucker;  Elementary  Arithmetic  (Macmillan),  by 
J.  and  E.  T.  Brooksmith ;  Chronological  Outlines  of  English 
/Literature  (Macmillan^,  by  F.  Ryland;  The  Arian  Controversy 
(Longmans),  by  H.  M.  Gwatkin  ;  Vergili  Aeneidos  /iJ.  vii:  The 
Wrath  of  Turnus  (MacmiUai^),  by  Rev  A*  Calvert ;  Memory s 
Harkback  (Bentley),  by  Rev  F.  E.  Gretton,  formerly  Feljow 
(1829— 1835);  The  Mathematical  Theory  of  Ekciri^ty  and 
Magnetism  Vol.  II  (Clarendon  Press),  by  Dr  H.  W.  Watson  and 
S.  H.  Burbury;  The  Qulstonian  Lectures  on  Secondary  Degenerations 
of  the  Spinal  Cord  (Churchill),  by  Dr  Howard  H,  Tooth  ;  Problems 
cf  the  Future,  and  Essays  (Chapmap  and  Hall),  by  S.  Laing ; 
The  Sagas  of  the  Norse  Kings,  edited  by  Rasmus  E.  Anderson 
(Nimmo),  by  Samuel  Laing ;  S.  Martin's  on  the  Hilly  Scarborough, 
and  its  late  Vicar  (Simpkin,  Marshall  and  Cq.)»  by  Rev  Newton 
Mant;  Genji  Monogatari  (TrUbner),  by  Suyematx  Kenchio; 
Vergili  Georgicom  lib,  i  (Macmillan),  by  T.  E.  Page;  Key  to 
Todhuntet^s  Integral  Calculus  (Macmillant),  by  H.  St  J.  Hunter; 
Primer  of  Roman  Literature  (Macmillan).  by  Dr  A-  S.  Wilkins  ; 
Dynamics  of  Particles  and  Solids  (Macmillan),  by  Principal 
W.  M.  Hicks ;  Occasional  Thoughts  of  an  Astronomer  (Murray), 
by  Rev  Prof.  Pritchard,  D-D, ;  Rittatiikagaku,  qr  Solid  Geometry 
(Fokio),  bv  Prof.  Kikuchi;  An  Account  of  the  Chapel  of 
Marlborough  Cidlege  (W.  H.  Allen),  by  Rev  Newton  Mant; 
Guide  to  Ike  Constellations  of  the  Southern  Hemisphere  (W.  H. 
Allen),  by  R.  A.  Proctor;  Key  to  Hall  and  Knighf^  Elementary 
Algebra  for  Schools  (Macmillan),  E.  J.  Brooksmith;  Hymns  fir 
ike  Church  of  England  (Edward  Jones),  by  Rev  Thgmas  Darjing  | 
On  Sepidecylamint  (Taylor  and  Francis),  by  G.  S.  Turpin ; 
Human  Anatomy,  systematic  and  topographical  (Charles  Grifcn), 
by  Professor  A.  Macalister;  The  Alternate  Current  Transformer^ 
its  Theory  and  Practice  (The  Electrician  Publishing  Co.),  by 
Dr  J.  A.  Fleming;  Blunders  and  Forgeries,  Historical  Essays 
(Kegan   Paul),   by  Rev  T.  E.  Bridgett;    The  Last  Days  of 


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Olympus^  a  Modem  Myth  (Kegan  Paul),  by  C.  S.  H.  Brereton ; 
Letters  on  various  subjects:  II  and  III  (J.  Hall  and  Son),  by 
Rev  P.  H.  Mason ;  Church  and  Creeds  Hermans  preached  at  the 
Foundling  Hospital  (Blackwood),  by  Rev  Prof.  A.  W.  Momerie. 

JOHNIANA. 

The  roof  of  St  John's  Chapel  is  blackening,  and  the  illnstrions  line  of 
worthies  commemorated  with  much  care  and  discrimination  on  its  surface  are 
fast  giving  evidence  of  the  effect  of  gas.  The  Fellows  of  St  John's  have 
introduced  a  smoking  room  at  the  end  of  their  combination  room,  and  they 
have  common  breakfasts  in  the  latter  splendid  apartment.  Both  innovations 
ought  to  help  in  the  breaking  down  of  cliques,  and  in  the  promotion  of 
geniality  and  community  of  feeling.  The  new  lecture  rooms  are  well  designed 
and  suited  to  their  purpose,  and  they  make  a  link  between  the  old  work  and 
the  Master's  lodge,  which  used  to  dwell  in  splendid  isolation. 

Cambridge  Revisited:  Church  Times,  July  12,  1889. 

We  have  received  a  copy  of  the  June  number  of  the  Eagle^  a  magazine 
supported  by  members  or  St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  which  has  just 
completed  its  thirtieth  year,  and  which  certainly  deserves  its  success  if  we 
may  judge  from  the  excellence  of  the  present  number.  Among  the  notices 
of  recenUy  deceased  members  of  the  College  we  find  one  of  T.  S.  Evans 
signed  T.  E.  B.  M.,  another  of  F.  A.  Paley  by  T.  Field,  and  a  veiy 
remarkable  paper  on  Dr  Kennedy  at  Shrewsbury  by  W.  E.  Heitland,  which 
throws  more  light  on  Kennedy's  extraordinary  power  as  a  teacher  than 
anything  we  have  seen  elsewhere.  Classical  Review  :  July  1889. 

Among  the  asserters  of  free  reason's  claim, 

Our  nation's  not  the  least  in  worth  or  fame. 

The  world  to  Bacon  does  not  only  owe 

Its  present  knowledge,  but  its  future  too. 

Gilbert  [seep.  72]  shall  live,  till  loadstones  cease  to  draw. 

Or  British  fleets  the  boundless  ocean  awe. 

Drydm  :  Epistle  to  Dr  Charleton,  1.  25. 

105s  Wordsworth  (William)  An  Evening  Walk.     An 

Epistle  ;  in  Verse.    By  William  Wordsworth,  B. A.  of 

St  John's,  Cambridge,  newly  hound  in  blue  morocco^  good 

clean  copy,  but  with  good  margins  (measuring  aboai  io|  in. 

by  8 J  in.)  of  the  utmost  rarity  [;f  12  5^] 

London,  printed  for  y,  Johnson,  1793. 

1056  Wordsworth  (William)  Descriptive  sketches,  in 

Verse.     By  William  Wordsworth,  B.A.  of  St  John's, 

Cambridge,  of  the  utmost  rarity  ib.  1793 

*0*  Uniformfy  bound  with  and  in  all  respects  similar  to  the 

"  Evening  Walk."  [/i  2  S<L 

From  catalogue  of  a  sale  fy  Sotheby,  Wilkinson, 
6*  Hodges:  June  15,  1889. 

La  Belle  Dams  sans  Chaperon. 

[According  to  a  daily  paper,  one  of  the  privileges  enjoyed  by  students  of  Newnham 
who  spend  the  Long  Vacation  there  is  that  of  going  on  the  river  without  a  chaperon.] 
(Ye  olde  Graduate  speaketh.) 

I  prithee,  why  dost  linger  yet, 

Nor  hie  thee  to  the  railway  station  ? 
Is  it  that  classic  lore  would'st  get. 

While  others  seek  their  recreation  ? 

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Or  mathematics  h)v*st  tfaoa  mbrej 

Than  all  thy  comrades  gone  before, 

That  thus  thou  stay'st,  when  Term  is  o'er, 

At  Cambridge  in  the  Long  Vacation? 
(Ye younge  Undergraduate  maketk  aunswere.) 
Not  here  for  love  of  Greek  I  live — 

'Twas  ever  my  abomination; 
Nor  yet  to  hear  our  bland  Webb  give 

His  very  ablest  demonstration. 
But  'tis  because  (if  thou  wouldst  knoW) 
Fair  Newnham's  daughters  daily  go, 
XJncbaperoned  the  stream  to  row, 

At  Cambridge  in  the  Long  Vacation, 

St  yames's  Vautit :  August  i%  1889. 

[Definition]  Senior  Wrangler— The  projection  of  Mr  Webb  upon  a  gifted 
Johnian.  Punch  :  November  9,  1889. 

I  recollect  perfectly  the  erection  of  St  John's  New  Courts  and  the  bridge 

over  the  river.     During  the  progress  of  the  building  a  tremendous  storm 

threw  down  a  number  of  splendid  trees,  and,  although  I  never  made  a  hote 

of  the  circumstance,  I  believe  it  occurred  on  the  i6th  of  January,  about  1834. 

William  Glover:  Reminiscences  of  Hadf  a  Century,  1889. 

Although,  as  we  mentioned  last  week,  St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  has 
hot  this  year  maintained  its  old  pre-eminence  in  the  Mathematical  Tripos 
Part  I,  in  Part  II  and  in  the  newer  Triposes  it  has  taken  a  distinguisned 
place.  Of  the  four  men  in  the  First  Class  of  Part  II  (higher  mathematics), 
two  (Orr  and  Sampson)  are  Tohnians.  St  John'^  has  one  of  the  two  men 
who  receive  distinction  in  the  First  Class  of  the  Mediaeval  and  Modern 
Languages.  In  the  Natural  Sciences  Tripos  (Part  II)  it  has  beat  the  record, 
six  Johnians  out  of  eleven  all  told  being  placed  in  the  First  Class ;  and  the 
(Coveted  mark  of  distinction,  last  awarded  in  1883,  is  gained  by  Horton-Smith 
for  Physiology.  In  Law,  the  First  Class  (old  regulations)  consists  of  three, 
iUl  Johnians;  and  another  is  Third  Jurist  under  the  new  regidations.  In 
Theology  (Part  II)  one  of  the  two  First  Classes  is  gained  by  a  Johnian. 
And  in  the  Classical  Tripos  (Part  I)  one  of  the  four  in  the  First  Division 
of  the  First  Class  is  Sikes,  of  St  John's,  who  receives  the  Browne  medal  for 
a  Latin  ode ;  while  in  Part  II  St  John's  and  King's  each  contribute  two 
scholars  to  the  First  Class  of  eight. 

St  yames*s  Gautte:  June  19,  1889. 

The  theologian  has  some  excuse  for  claiming  a  share  in  one  of  the  most 
learned  men  of  this  or  of  any  age,  Professor  J.  £.  B.  Mayor..., For  the 
exegesis  of  the  most  difficult  passages  [of  the  bidache]  no  contribution  has 
been  more  valuable  than  that  of  an  Englishman,  Dr  C.  Taylor,  Master  of 
St  John's  College,  Cambridge. 

Prqf.  Sanday  :  Contemporary  Review,  July  1889. 

Your  Cantab  oracle  is  toto  coelo  mistaken  as  to  the  appellation  of  'Johnian 
Hogs ' ;  his  interpretation  is,  on  the  face  of  it,  improbable.  It  arose  from 
the  squalid  figures  of  the  students,  says  he !  Lo !  on  the  contrary,  it  is 
proverbial  to  be  as  fat  as  a  hog.  Forty  years  ago  I  was  a  scholar  of  St 
John's.  A  clergyman,  who  had  thirty  years  before  been  a  fellow  of  that 
college,  told  me  the  real  story,  which  is  ridiculous.  A  gateway  opens  into 
a  bye-road  between  that  college  and  Trinity  chapel,  that  leads  to  Ibt  John's 
walks ;  and  in  the  comer  of  the  first  court,  facing  the  entrance  to  the  chapel, 
is  a  passage  leading  out  to  that  bye-road.  A  young  wag  of  that  college  saw 
a  countryman  driving  a  sow  and  young  pigs  to  market ;  the  youth  suddenly 
seized  a  little  pig,  whipt  it  under  his  gown,  ran  down  the  bve-road,  turned 
into  the  passage,  and  went  up  to  his  chamber,  where  his  chum  was  then 


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at  stady.  The  cou&tirman  pursued,  and  saw  the  youth  enter  the  passage, 
but,  having  lost  him  there,  went  through  it  to  the  outer  court  of  the  college. 
The  wag  saw  him  gaping  and  gaeing  in  great  amazement ;  then  opening  his 
window,  held  up  the  pig,. and,  pinching  one  ear,  made  it  squeak.  Clodpate 
immediately  made  an  outcry ;  the  servants  of  the  college  assembled  about 
him,  and  undertook  to  show  him  the  room ;  but  the  youth  muffled  up  the 
pig,  ran  up  to  the  top  of  the  stairs,  t^nd,  getting  out  upon  the  leads  between 
the  roof  and  parapet  wall,  proceeded  along  quite  round  to  the  bell-turret,  and 
there  observed  the  countryman's  motions.  Clodpate  in  the  interim  entered 
the  chamber,  but  there  found  only  the  chum  at  his  books.  '  Where,'  says 
he,  •  is  the  other  voung  man  with  my  pig  ?  *  *  What  pig  ? '  says  the  student. 
•There  is  no  otner  person  here  but  myself.'  The  chamber  was  strictly 
searched,  but  quite  in  vain.  Clodpate  in  despair  returned  down  into  the 
court.  The  wag,  seeing  this,  went  back  to  his  chamber,  exhibiting  the  pig 
once  more  at  the  window,  and  then  eloped  as  before ;  while  hue-and-cry  was 
again  made,  but  still  in  vain.  At  length  the  wag,  esp3ring  Clodpate  proceeding 
to  the  master's  lodge,  descended  the  bell  turret,  went  out  at  the  gate,  dropped 
down  the  pig  unperceived,  and  retired  quite  unconcerned  into  the  Johnian 
coffee-house  in  the  opposite  churchyard.  Presently  the  pig  was  heard 
squeaking  about  the  street.  But  the  college  was  ever  afterward  denominated 
the  Circaean  stye.  GentlematCs  Magazine:  vol.  txv,  107  (1796). 

Mr  Charles  Whibley  has  published  in  ''C^  and  Gown"  (Paul  and 
Trench)  a  selection  of  college  japes  from  the  records  of  three  hundred  years. 
He  does  not  over-estiinate  the  local  fun,  which,  as  h^  truly  sajrs,  is  "shoppy." 
Where  so  many  really  clever  men,  youQg  and  old,  haye  so  much  leisure,  and 
so  ready  an  audience,  it  is  curious  that  so,  little  really  amusing  literature  sees 
the  light.  Mr  Whibley  goes  far  back,  to  the  days  when  colleges,  as  he  says, 
were  in  the  Totemistic  stage,  and  their  pupils  bore  names  derived  from 
animals.  Trinity  men  were  bijl-dogs,  Catharine's  were  (not  cats)  but  doves, 
and  Sidney  men  were  owls.  The  Johnians  h#ive  been  hogs  for  very  long. 
In  a  lampoon  of  1613  we  read  **  Mere  Swine  ye  be,"  and  Mr  Whibley  is 
at  a  loss  for  the  origin  of  this  mythical  appellation.  A  philological  theory 
may  be  ventured,  as  apparently  new  to  Mr  Whibley.  Myths,  as  Mr  Max 
MiUler  occasionally  tells  us,  ai;e  the  result  of  a  disease  of  language,  of  words 
remaining  after  their  sense  is  lost.  Now  at  Oxford  there  is  a  hall  for  young 
ladies,  styled  Lady  Margaret's,  and  there  is  another  hall,  Somerville,  for  the 
studious  fair.  Maidens  of  Somerville  have  been  heard  to  call  their  sisters 
of  Lady  Margaret's  "Pegs."  Well,  "Peg"  is  an  abbreviation  of  Margaret. 
Now,  St  John's  at  Cambridge  is  a  Lady  Margaret's  foundation.  Suppose 
the  John's  men,  like  the  Lady  Margaret's  women,  were  originally  nicknamed 
"Pegs."  The  consequences  are  clear — to  the  philologist.  From  "Pegs'* 
to  "Pigs"  is  the  shortest  of  steps,  and  the  change  of  "e"  into  "i"  is 
probably  justified  by  Grimm's  Law.  Again,  from  pigs  ta  hogs  and  swine 
is  a  natural  movement,  and  so  the  swinish  myth  is  clearly  demonstrated  tq 
have  a  linguistic,  no(  a  Totemistip  origin. 

Daily  News:  October  16,  1889. 

You.  must  conje  and  see  this  Cambridge  with  me  ere  very  long.  My 
acquaintance  with  University  men  is  broadening  as  much  and  as  pleasantly 
as  ever  I  could  desire....!  went  by  invitation  on  Monday  last  as  a  guest 
to  the  great  Annual  Feast  of  St  John's.  All  the  Heads  of  College  and 
greater  lights  were  met  to  eat  and  drink;  and  such  splendours ~bf  dishes, 
of  dresses,  of  drinking, vessels  of  silver  and  gold— was  surely  never  seen  since 
Belshazzar's  feast  or  since  the  last  St  John's  one.  I  extended  my  acquaintance 
with  Professors  and  other  dons  in  the  Combination  Room,  where,  aftei{ 
dinner,  a  magnificent  banquet  of  wine  was  served. 

Dr  James  Brown :  Life  of  William  B.  Robertson,  D.D., 
Irvine,  pp.  383,  384  (1888). 

It  was,  I  think,  in  my  first  year  that  Mr  Scarlett,  then  a  pronounced 
Whig,  offered  himself  as  a  candidate  for  the  University.    In  St  John's  |\e 


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toQed  up  one  staircase  after  another  to  no  purpose.  At  last  he  got  to  a 
Fellow's  rooms,  who  received  him  with  great  efiusion,  and  said  how  glad 
he  should  be  to  vote  for  him  ;  but^  unfortunately,  through  some  infonnality, 
he  had  lost  his  vote  for  a  year — ^so  Mr  Scarlett's  one  nibble  was  no  bite. 
This  same  Fellow  and  Tutor  had  been  Senior  Wrangler,  and  was  as  full 
of  intellect  as  he  was  of  kindliness ;  everyone  had  an  affection  for  him,  but 
sometimes  in  the  Lecture-room  they  poked  innocent  fun  at  him.  Thus  he 
once  asked :  "  How  many  permutations  could  be  made  out  of  the  word 
Mississippi?"  A  joker  in  the  class  asked,  "Did  you  say,  Sir,  out  of 
Mrs  Shippev  ?  "    Shippey  was  the  College  Cook ,  • , . 

One  of  the  Senior  Fellows  of  St  John's  at  this  time  was  somewhat  of  a 
character— Mr  Palmer.  He  had  been  Senior  Wrangler  and  Arabic  Professor, 
was  an  accomplished  Eastern  scholar  and  full  of  varied  learning,  but  kept 
himself  almost  entirely  to  himself.  His  door  was  always  sport^ ;  he  had 
but  little  intercourse  with  the  other  Fellows,  except  one  who  called  for  him 
every  day,  when  they  took  a  constitutional  walk  round  by  Grrantchester  and 
Trumpington  together — not  exactly  together,  since  one  was  always  a  little 
in  advance  of  the  other,  and  conversation  was  therefore  scant.  One  day  the 
companion  called  as  usual,  and  was  puzzled  to  find  the  room  door  open,  yet 
more  so  to  see  the  old  bed-maker  scrubbing  the  room  and  setting  it  to  rights, 
which  was  quite  against  law.  "  Where  is  Mr  Palmer  ?  "  he  asked,  "  He 
went  to  Constantinople  this  morning,"  was  the  answer;  a  fact  of  which  no 
intimation  had  been  given  in  yesterday's  walk.  Although  so  recluse  in  his 
habits,  Mr  Palmer  was  the  courteous  old  gentleman  when  occasion  drew  him 
out.  Lord  Palmerston  was  St  John's  Tory  pet  from  his  first  start,  but  when 
he  donned  the  Whig  livery  the  College  looked  askant  at  him.  However,  on 
the  eve  of  an  election  he  came  to  try  his  luck  once  more,  and,  as  a  Johnian, 
dined  in  Hall.  There  was  then  no  Combination  Room  except  on  grand 
days,  and  the  Fellows  dispersed  to  their  different  private  parties ;  but  no  one 
invited  Palmerston,  who  was  walking  out  alone.  Palmer  thought  this,  as 
it  was,  sorry  hospitality,  so  he  did  what  for  years  he  had  not  done  to  any 
one—invited  My  Lord  to  wine  in  his  rooms.  The  strange  guest,  who  knew 
so  well  how  to  gauge  men,  said  afterwards  he  had  rarely  passed  so  pleasant 
and  so  instructive  an  afternoon .... 

Abnormal  atmospheric  disturbances  will  cling  tenaciously  to  the  memory. 
I  have  spoken  of  the  waterspout  scare  in  Herefordshire,  the  blackness  of 
darkness  I  had  to  ride  througn  in  Hertfordshire,  and  the  almost  simultaneous 
flash  of  lightning  which  I  traced  out  of  Cheshire  as  far  as  Hereford.  But  in 
my  undergraduate  days,  one  Ash  Wednesday,  there  came  down — it  could 
not  be  called  a  wind,  it  was  more  like  a  tornado  of  the  tropics.  It  fell  in 
all  its  fury  upon  St  John's  College.  First  in  the  beautiful  walks  seven  fine 
elms  out  of  the  avenue  came  down  at  one  fell  swoop,  like  so  many  nine-pins. 
With  a  friend  I  was  going  to  my  rooms,  which  were  on  the  ground-floor 
in  the  second  court,  when  a  suclden  crash  almost  knocked  us  backwards, 
followed  by  such  a  dense  cloud  of  dust  that  nothing  was  to  be  seen.  When 
this  cleared  away,  we,  saw  a  great  chasm  in  the  roof  on  the  opposite  side 
of  the  court,  as  clean  cut  as  if  it  had  been  done  by  an  adze.  At  that  time 
there  was  in  the  building  a  row  of  massive  chimneys,  very  architectural  but 
highly  dangerous.  One  of  these  had  fallen  in  bodily.  The  room  below 
belonged  to  one  of  the  Fellows ;  it  had  been  prepared  for  a  wine-party^ 
the  desert  and  decanters  and  chairs  duly  laid  out,  When  we  rushed  up  and 
entered  the  room,  the  table  and  chairs  were  chips,  the  wine  sucked  up  by 
the  dust,  the  decanters  and  glasses  ground  to  powder.  The  occupier  of  the 
rooms  had  ordered  all  this  preparation,  intending  to  invite  some  niends  after 
Hall.  Providentially  he  went  to  another  Fellow's  rooms  instead,  or  they 
would  all  have  been  smashed  to  mince-meat,  with  no  bits  to  be  picked 
up  and  save  the  patterns. 

F,  E,  Gretton  :  Memory's  Harkback  through 
Half-a-Century  (1808  to  1858),  pp.  58, 
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[In  Bridgetown,  Barbadoes]  I  could  have  had  the  escort  of  a  caniageful 
of  coloured  persons,  had  I  desired  their  company  and  paid  their  fares,  to 
Codrington  College,  whereof  the  Right  Reverend  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Barba- 
does is  the  ex  officio  visitor,  and  where  certain  graduates  of  the  'Varsities 
on  the  banks  of  the  Cam  and  the  Isis  occupv  Chairs  of  Divinity,  Medicine, 
Classics  and  Mathematics.  The  occupant  of  the  last-named  Chair,  as  was 
to  be  expected,  is  a  Cantab,  of  St  John's,  of  no  less  distinction  than 
Scmar  OpUnu  [C.  A.  Svnft,  B A.  1879]. 

William  Agnew  Paton  :  Down  the  Islands,  A  Voyage 
to  the  Caribbees,  p.  154  (1888). 

A  Fettes  Master  in  an  obituary  notice  of  Dr  Potts  remarks,  that  as  a 
preacher  he  possessed  a  singularly  rare  gift  of  eloquence—versatile,  refined, 
earnest,  and  impressive.  Dr  Potts,  though  he  occupied  each  Sunday  the 
College  pnlpit,  was  a  layman.  He  carried  with  him  from  Rugby  that  excel- 
lent  institution  of  lay  sermons  ;  a  practice  which  has  been  also  adopted  by 
Kr  Wilson  of  Clifton  and  Mr  Pbillpotts  of  Bedford—both  of  them,  like 
Dr  Potts,  old  members  of  Dr  Temple  s  staflf.  **  R.  K  B."  in  the  Guardian 
notes  as  a  unique  achievement  that  six  times  in  nine  consecutive  years  the 
Porson  Prize  at  Cambridge  was  won  by  old  Fettesians. 

Styames's  GautU:  November  28,  1889. 

Tripos    Examinations,     1889. 

[For  the  Mathematical  and  Medieval  and  Modem  Languages  Tripos 
see  EagU  XV.  509.] 
Natural  Sciences. 
Part  II. 
Baily  (Physics) 
d' Albuquerque  (Chcmistfy) 
Groom  {Geology) 
Hankin  {Physiology) 
fHorton-Smith  (Physiology^  Human  Anatomy) 
Locke  (Physiology) 
f  DittingutMhtd  in  Physiology, 
Part  I. 
Blackman  Hewitt 

Glover,  L.  G.  Lehfeldt 

Woods 
Atlee,  J.  Mundella 

Harvey,  A.  G.  Thompson,  A.  C. 

Bartram  Lewis,  C.  £.  M. 

Aegrotat  Godson,  J.  H, 

Theological. 

Part  I. 

Aegrotat  Greenup 

Part  II. 

De  Scullard  (Dogmatics  and  Liturgiology) 

Class  II  Ds  Legge  (Old  Testament) 

Classical. 

Part  L 
Class  II 
Backhouse     (div,  2) 
Waterfield  „ 

Wilson,  W.  C.  „ 
Judd  (div,  3) 

Milner  „ 

Ds  Rudd  „ 


ClassI{isY 

Class  II 
Class  III 


ClassI 


Class  I 

Sikes  (div,  i) 

Stout  (div.  2) 

Smith,  H.  (div,  3) 
Spragg  „ 


Class  III 
Cowie  (div,  i) 

Wilson,  A.  J.     „ 
Bland  (div,  2) 

Ford  „ 

Coombes       (div,  3) 
Edwards  „ 

Hartley,  H.  W.  „ 
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Class  I  (4). 
C%wj  77(14) 


Part  II, 
Class  I    Ds  Brooks  (a,  c) 

Ds  Smith,  H.  B.  {c) 

a  Translation  and  Composition, 
9  liistor^. 

Law, 

Old  Regulations. 

1  DsForster 

2  Harbottle 

3  Brown,  P.  H. 
9        Thomas,  J.  R.  (brackeUd) 

12        Tallent  {bracketed) 
20        Rowlands  {Jbr<icketed\ 

New  Regulations, 
3        Brown,  W.  J. 
9        Hayward  {bracketed) 


Chemistry  and  Physics^ 
Elementary  Biology, 


Mbdicaj,  Examinations,  June  1889. 
First  M.B, 

Cameron  Lewis,  F.  H, 

Henderson  Sandall 

King,  T.  P.  Seccombe 

Bennett,  N.  G.  Henderson 

Cameron  Lewis,  F.  H. 

Elliott,  A.  E,  Sand^ 
Haigh 

Second  M.B. 

Pharmaceutical  Chemistry,     Barraclough  Roughton 

Glover,  F.  B.  Mag  Samwa)rs 

Ds  Lewis  C^  Simpson,  H. 

Anatomy  and  Physiology,       Burton,  F.  W.  Mag  Samways 

Harvey  Ds  Young,  F.  C, 
Ds  Mason,  G.  A- 

College  Awards  at  the  Annual  Election,  June  1889. 

m,  matbematics,   c.  classics,    s  natural  science,    t.  theology,   /.  law, 
mm.  medieval  and  modern  languages. 


Foundation 
Scholars. 
t  Scullard,  H.  H. 
in  Brown,  W. 
c  Smith,  Harold 
^Spragg,  W.  H. 
c  Stout,  J.  F. 
m  Alexander,  J.  J. 
/  Brown,  W.  J. 
fwFinn,  S.  W. 
jLehfeldt,  R.  A. 
c  Radford,  L.  B. 
I  Woods,  H. 
c  Wynne  Willson,  St  J,  B. 


Exhibitioners  Holding 
Foundation  Scholarships. 

s  Baily 

m  Bennett,  G.  T. 
wFinn 

c  Glover,  T.  R, 

/  Harbottle 

s  Lehfeldt 

s  Locke 

c  Nicklin 

c  Radford 
m  Reeves 
mm  Snps worth 

c  Smith,  H.  B, 

c  Stout 

c  Wynne  Willson 


Other 
Exhibitioners. 
tn  Ayers 

c  Blackett 
s  Blackman 
m  Bio ra field 
t  Chambers,  W.  H. 
c  Constantine 
J  Cuff 

s  Glover,  L.  G. 
c  Haslett 
c  Laming 
t  Long 
s  Mac  Bride 
mMaw 

m  Owen,  O.  W. 
m  Schmitz 
m  Speight 
c  Tetley 
f/»  Wills 


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mAyers  I&ovlMovl  (Third year) 

c  Haslett  Nicklin  (Second  year) 

c  Laming  Waller  {proxime) 

m  Maw  Glover,  T.  R.  (First year) 

m  Pickford 

m  Robertson,  C. 

Hughes'  Prizes. 

jr  Horton-Smith  c  Sikes 

Wright's  Prizes. 

THIRD  TEAR.  SECOND  YEAR.  l^RST  TEAR« 

c  Stout  c  Nicklin  c  Summers 

I  Horton-Smxth  m  Bennett,  G.  T.  x  Mac  Bride 

J  Hewitt 

Hutchinson  Studentship*  Hockin  Prize. 

(for  Physiology),  [for  Physics). 

Horton-Smith  Baily 

Prizes  for  Distinction  in  Indian  Civil  Service  Examination. 
Lees,  D.  H. 
Whittle 

Elected  to  School  Exhibitions : 
T.  Broach  (Durham  School),  Baker  Exhibitiottt 
|;^^^^^l  (Sedbergh  School),  Lupton  ExhibiHons. 

f!  H.  Ho7^*  }  (Hc'^^o'd  School),  Somerset  Exhibitions. 
O^  M^  WihT  }  (Manchester  School),  Somerset  Exhibitions. 
1*.  E.  Sandall  (Stamford  School),  Marquis  of  Exeter's  Exhibition* 

The  new  Choral  Studentships  have  been  awarded  as 
follows : — 

C.  M.  BSctf  £^0  for  two  years* 
C*  O.  RaVen,  £\ofor  one  year. 

Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club. 

We  omitted  last  Term  to  mention  that  Dr  Sandys  had  been 
elected  President  of  the  Club,  in  place  of  Mr  Heitland  who  had 
resigned. 

A  Four  was  sent  to  Henlej  this  year,  composed  as  follows : 

Boia  P.  £.  Shaw 

2  H.  E.  H.  Coombes 

3  J.  Backhouse 
Stroke ij.  P.Davys 

We  had  some  difficulty  in  securing  a  regular  coach;  H.  T. 
Trevor-Jones  of  Trinity  Hall  took  us  most  of  the  time. 

On  the  first  day  we  were  beaten  by  Kingston  for  the 
Wyfolds  Cup.    On  the  last  day  we  went  better  than  we  bad 


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previously  done,  the  improvement  being  greatly  due  to  N.  P. 
Symonds,  who  coached  us  two  or  three  times.    Third  Trinity, 
however,  who  were  a  very  good  crew,  proved  too  strong  for 
us,  and  won  by  more  than  two  lengths. 
The  Four  this  Term  was  composed  of  2 

Baw  G.  P.  Davys 

2  J.  Backhouse 

3  J.  A.  Cameron 
StrokeYL  E.  H.  Coombes 

We  were  coached  by  Muttlebury  (III  Trinity)  and  Peace 
(Emmanuel).  We  could  not  succeed  in  getting  together  at  all ; 
and,  at  a  meeting  of  Captains,  it  was  decided  after  some 
discussion  that  we  should  not  enter. 

There  were  four  entries  for  the  Pearson  and  Wright  Sculls. 
However,  a  few  days  before  the  race,  C.  C.  Waller  was  injured 
and  could  not  compete.  This  left  three  competitors,  H.  £.  H. 
Coombes,  H.  G.  T.  Jones,  and  C.  Warner.  The  race  was  won 
by  Coombes,  although  at  Ditton  he  was  almost  for^  yards  to 
the  bad. 

We  had  three  candidates  for  the  Colquhoun  Sculls :  H.  E.  H. 
Coombes  (First  Captain)^  A.  G.  Cooke,  and  P.  E.  Shaw,  who 
rowed  a  good  race  in  the  final  last  year,  and  has  since  won  the 
Senior  Sculls  at  Bedford,  in  the  Long  Vacation.  Coombes  and 
Cooke  were  both  beaten  in  the  first  round.  Shaw  won  his  first 
heat,  but  was  beaten  by  Elin  in  the  second.  He  was  not  at  all 
fit  and  could  not  do  himself  justice.  But  for  this,  we  feel  sure 
that  he  would  have  won.  The  entry  for  the  Colquhouns  was 
larger  than  usual  this  year,  so  our  pecuniary  loss  was  not 
so  great. 

The  Trial  Eights  were  rowed  on  November  30.  There  were 
seven  eights,  four  junior  and  three  senior.  The  following 
were  the  winning  crews  : 

Seniors — Barlow's  eight : 

Bom  A.  R.  Pennington 

2  C.  Warner 

3  J.  W.  H.  Ditchfidd 

4  E.J.  AUen 

5  H.  G.  T.  Jones 

6  B.  T.  Nunns 

7  P.  H.  Brown 
Stroked,  M.  Smith 

Cox  J.  H.  Pegg 

Juniors — Long's  eight : 

Bern  A.  W.  Dennis 

2  P.  Bone 

3  H.  E.  S.  Cordeaux 

4  W.  W.Haslett 

5  C.  M.  Rice 

6  J.  H.C.  Fegan 

7  A.  T.  WaUis 
Stroke  G.  B.  Buchanan 

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The  other  senior  eights  were  coached  by  R.  H.  Forster 
and  P.  E.  Shaw ;  the  juniors  b^  A.  S.  Roberts,  G.  P.  Davys,  and 
W.  E.  Forster.  The  victory  of  Long's  crew  was  a  very  meri- 
torious one,  as  they  had  scarcely  been  together  at  all  before  the 
races.  The  crews  scarcely  looked  so  nice  as  those  of  late  years. 
Most  of  the  men  seemed  incapable  of  driving  their  shoulders 
back  by  means  of  their  legs,  and  consequently  there  was  a  bad 
finish  throughout.  This  ought  to  be  remedied  before  the  Lent 
races  if  we  wish  to  keep  our  place  at  the  head  of  the  river. 

Scratch  Fours  were  rowed  on  Monday,  December  2.  Eight 
crews  entered ;  there  was  some  very  even  racing.  The  following 
was  the  winning  crew: 

Bow  B.  Longman        %    W.  B.  Morton       j    H,  T.  G,  Joies 
Stroke  J,  H.  C.  Fegan  Coj^  J.  R.  J.  Clarke 

H.  T.  E.  Barlow,  who  coached  the  winning  eight  this  Term, 
is  about  to  leave  Cambridge  for  an  appointment  in  the  Isle  of 
Man,  so  the  club  will  no  longer  have  the  benefit  of  his  coaching, 
which  has  been  given  so  long  and  so  readily,  both  while  he  was 
with  us  and  after  he  became  Tutor  at  Ayerst's  Hostel.  In 
recognition  of  his  services,  the  Committee  offered  him  his 
honorary  First  Boat  colours,  which  he  accepted.  We  have  ta 
acknowledge  the  gift  of  a  flag  for  the  Second  Boat,  presented 
by  R.  C.  Cleworth  and  A.  P.  T.  CoUum. 

Cricket  Club. 

The  following  details  of  the  doings  of  the  XI  during  the 
Easter  Term  should  be  a.dded  to  those  given  in  the  JunQ 
number  of  the  £agle, 

Results :— Won  3.    Lost  4.    Drawn  6*    Played  13^. 
Captain— Y,  A.  H.  Walsh.  Hon.  Secretary -^H,  Roughton^ 

Batting  Averages, 

No.  of  Most  m  No.  of        Times 

Name.  rans.  Innia^^.       Innings.      not  out.  Averagre. 

F.  B.  Woodhead 355    137      10    —  35.5 

W.  P.  Moulton 57    30      2    —   aS.i 

J.  T.  Edwards  268    69      ix    i    26.a 

M.  Rougbton 314    66      .........  15    a    %^.% 

F.  A.  H.Walsh .• 131    37      U    —  ".l 

E.A.Chambers 156    39      13 i    13 

J.H.  C.  Fegan  x|2    46      \i    i    zi.a 

H   Pullan 68    19      8    —  8.4 

C.  Collison 41    .........    94      8    3    8.x 

H.I.  Hoare 35    19 7    2    7 

U.  Wilcox   47    14      9.    >    — 6'S 

Bowling  Averages, 
No.  of  Balls.    Maidens.  Runs.         Wickets.       Arerage. 

F.  A.  H.  Walsh xs?    4    .........      97    xo    92 

H.J.  Hoare 643    %i    «....«...    300    3X    9  ai 

£.  A.  Chambers 84a     41 439    25 15 

F.  E.  WoodKead 380    .........    x6    axx    xx    X9.4 

H.  Roughton   41  x    X9    ....m...    250    xx    228 

B.  Wilcox 483    20 350    X3    26.X2 

F,  A,  H,  Walsh,  Captain— Good  bat  and  capital  field ;  has  proved  himself 

an  energetic  Captain, 
W,  F,  Moulton -^FUyed  very  seldom,  but  was  of  great  service  when  avail* 

able ;  free  bat  and  excellent  slow  bowler,  pour  6eld. 
ff.  .Roughton  —Very  useful  bat  and  fair  bowler ;  also  a  good  field. 
E,  A,  Chambers — Good  medium^paced  bowler,  moderate  bat,  and  bad  field.^ 

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H.  PuUan'-'FsJltd  to  come  up  to  eipectations  with  the  bat,  but  was  as  good 

as  ever  in  the  field. 
y.  T.  Edwards— Very  nseful  bat,  playing  in  a  style  of  his  own,  bnt  generally 

safe  for  runs. 
F,  E.  Waodkead-^Scarcely  came  op  to  his  school  reputation  at  Loretto,  but 

was  of  great  service  to  the  Eleven ;   scores  at  a  great  pace  off  loose 

bowling,  fair  bowler,  and  very  safe  field. 
y.  If.  C,  Fegan-^Vtxy  hard  hitting  bat,  rather  weak  m  defence. 
ff.  y.  Hoare—Vtxy  useftd  slow  bowler,  with  a  big  leg  break* 
C.  Collistm—'ModenLte  bat,  splendid  field. 
ff.  Wtlcox^Gaod  change  bowler  and  hard  working  fidd. 

Long  Vacation  Cricket  Club. 

The  Long  Vacation  Cricket  Team  played  9  matches,  of 
which  2  were  won,  3  lost,  and  4  drawn. 

There  were  also  two  other  matches  played,  one  against  the 
College  Servants,  the  other  against  17  of  L.M.B.C. 

The  ofl&cers  of  the  club  were: — 

Cdptam-^K.  Roughton.  Secretary—J.  H.  C.  Fegan. 

We  must  congratulate  Roughton,  Fegan,  and  Owen  on  being 
chosen  to  play  for  the  'Varsity  Long  Vacation  Team. 

The  following  matches  were  played. 

yuly  12  and  13,  v.  Jesos,  resultmg  in  a  draw,  rain  preventing  play  on  the 
second  day.  St  John's,  180  (Roughton  83  not  out,  Owen  31).  Jesos, 
13  for  no  wickets. 

yuly  15  and  i6,  v.  Cains,  resulting  in  a  draw.  St  John's,  ist  innings,  91 
(RoIIeston  23,  Fegan  16,  Owen  13) ;  2nd  innings,  103  for  i  wicket  (Owen 
49  not  out,  Fegan  35,  Roughton  12  not  out).    Cains,  ist  innings,  173. 

ytify  17  and  20,  V,  L.  M.  B.  C,  resulting  in  an  easy  win  for  the  College 
Eleven.  L.  M.  B.  C,  102  (Longman  23,  Bushe-Foz  21).  College  ElereOy 
166  for  2  wickets  (Fegan  114  not  out,  Langmore  24  not  out). 

yuly  18  and  19,  v.  Peripatetics,  resulting  in  an  easy  win  for  our  opponents 
by  an  innings  and  34  runs.  St  John's,  xst  innings,  63  (Fegan  16,  RoUestoa 
II);  2nd  innings,  49  (Roughton  12).    Peripatetics,  146. 

7ufy  22,  23,  and  24,  v.  King's  and  Clare,  won,  after  an  exciting  match, 
by  icing's  and  Clare  by  2  wickets.  St  John's,  ist  innings,  135  (Rollestoa 
27,  Owen  24,  Roughton  23,  Laming  23);  2nd  innings,  117  (Fegan  Sh 
Roughton  34).  King's  and  Clare,  1st  innings,  139;  2nd  innings,  115  for 
8  wickets. 

yufy  25,  26,  and  27,  V.  Trinity.  Trinity  won  by  3  wickets  after  a  good 
match.  St  John's,  ist  innings,  197  (Roughton  95  not  out,  Moulton  41); 
2nd  innings,  54  (Roughton  19,  Fegan  18).  Trinity,  ist  innings,  139;  2nd 
innings,  113  for  7  wickets. 

yufy  29  and  30,  V.  Cambridge  A^ctoria  C.  C,  resulting  in  a  draw.  St 
John's,  218  (Laming  68  not  out,  Owen  53,  Moulton  48).  Victoria,  ist 
Innings,  252 ;  2nd  innings,  41  for  3  wickets. 

Aug,  I,  2,  and  3,  v.  Trinity,  resulting  in  a  win  for  us  by  102  nins.  St 
John's  declared  their  2nd  innings  at  an  end  after  losing  5  wickets,  leading 
Trinity  an  hour  to  bat,  but  they  were  got  rid  of  for  32  runs.  This  was  due 
to  the  splendid  bowling  of  Jkoughton,  who  took  7  wickets  for  7  runs. 
St  John's,  ist  innings,  105  (RoUeston  21  not  out,  Owen  16);  2nd  inninp;s, 
137  for  5  wickets  (Fegan  51  not  out,  Owen  25,  Hogg  21  not  out).  Trimty, 
tst  innings,  108 ;  2nd  innings,  32. 

Aug,  8,  w.  College  Servants,  resulting  in  a  win  for  the  College  Elevezu 
St  John's,  216  (Fegan  82,  Owen  41,  Laming  41).    College  Servants,  131. 

Aug.  13,  V.  Corpus  and  Queens',  resulting  in  a  win  for  us  by  51  runs. 
St  John's,  I II  for  7  wickets  (Elliott  28,  Fegan  22,  Bairadough  17).  Corpus 
and  Queens',  60. 


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A$ig.  15,  16,  and  17,  V.  Trinity,  resulting  in  a  draw.  St  John's,  1st 
innings,  1^3  (Roughton  38,  Elliott  35,  Laming  21);  2nd  innings,  130  for  8 
wickets  (Elfiott  34,  Laming  21).    Trinity,  ist  innings,  213;  2nd  innings,  I4I, 

The  following  gentlemen  played  in  most  of  the  matches. 
H.  Roujfhton,  J.  H.  C.  Fegan,  L.  H.  K.  Bushe-Fox,  H.  C. 
Barraclough,  H.  R.  Langmore,  C.  E.  Owen,  E.  H.  T.  Prior, 
C.  D.  Henry,  W.  C.  Laming,  J.  A.  Cameron,  T.  P.  King, 

We  were  also  assisted  in  some  of  the  matches  by  W.  F. 
Moulton,  H.  D.  RoUeston,  R.  W,  Hogg,  A.  E.  Elliott,  H.  T.  E. 
Barlow,  and  a  few  others. 

Rugby  Union  Football  Club. 

Captain-'].  P.  M.  Blackett.  Secretary^ A,  T.  Wallis. 

We  started  the  season  with  very  fair  prospects,  having  ten  of 
last  year's  team  up.  Of  the  freshmen  the  majority  were 
disappointing,  with  the  exception  of  Jackson  at  half  and 
Edwards  forward.  The  forward  team  is  a  very  fair  lot,  being 
generally  pretty  well  together.  The  halves  are  perhaps  the  best 
part  of  the  team,  but  the  three-quarters  are  decidedly  the  weak 
point.  While  Backhouse  played  they  were  greatly  improved, 
apparently  gaining  confidence  and  playing  with  more  combina- 
tion.    Fegan  has  developed  into  a  very  fair  place-kick. 

Monday,  Oct.  14 — v,  Pembroke,  on  our  ground.  We  had  the 
best  of  the  game,  as  is  shewn  by  the  score,  three  tries  to  a  goal. 
The  tries  were  obtained  by  Fegan  (2)  and  Rowlands.  Pulian 
and  Fegan  were  best  behind,  while  all  the  forwards  worked 
well. 

Saturday^  Oct.  19 — ^The  Marylebone  F.  C.  played  us  on  our 
ground.  We  started  down  the  hill,  with  the  wind,  and  pressed 
them  for  some  time,  till  Pulian  dropped  a  fine  goal  from  near  the 
touch  line  about  the  twenty-five  flag.  Longman  shortly  after 
ran  in,  and  Fegan  kicked  a  goal.  In  the  second  half  our 
opponents  had  rather  the  best  of  it  for  some  time,  but  Nicholl 
obtained  a  try,  from  which  Fegan  placed  a  goal.  The  game 
ended  in  our  favour  by  three  goals  to  a  goal  and  a  try.  We 
played  one  man  short,  and  were  without  Wallis,  Elliott,  and 
Jackson. 

Monday,  Oct.  21 — ^We  played  Corpus  on  their  ground,  and 
won  by  three  tries  to  two.  The  place  kicking  on  this  occasion 
was  not  brilliant.  Bigland,  Nicholl,  and  Roughton  got  the 
tries.  This  was  the  first  appearance  of  the  latter  forward,  but 
we  should  be  glad  to  see  him  oftener. 

Wedneiday,  Oct.  23 — We  were  beaten  on  our  ground  by 
Selwjm,  by  one  goal  and  two  tries  to  nothing.  We  had  only 
two  of  last  year's  forwards  playing,  which  may  account  for  the 
result.  As  always  happens  in  this  match  it  rained,  and  the 
ground  was  in  a  bad  condition.    We  were  quite  beaten  forward. 

Friday,  Oct.  25 — ^We  beat  Emmanuel  on  our  ground  by  a 
goal  and  a  try  to  nothing.  Rowlands  and  Jackson  got  the 
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Monday^  Oct.  28 — ^Trinity  Hall  beat  us  by  two  goals  and  a 
try  to  nothing.  We  were  playing  a  weak  team,  being  without 
Nicholi,  Jackson,  Elliott,  and  Rowlands. 

Monday^  Nov,  4 — We  beat  Christ's  rather  easily  by  three 
goals  to  nothing.  Up  till  this  time  we  had  not  played  a  full 
team,  but  when  all  the  men  could  be  got  together  we  turned  out 
to  be  fairly  strong.  One  try  was  got  after  a  very  good  piece  of 
passing,  chiefly  among  the  forwards. 

Friday,  Nov.  8 — We  lost  to  Trinity  by  two  goals  and  one  try 
to  a  goal.  Jackson  got  the  try,  and  Fegan  kicked  a  very  good 
goal.  We  had  all  the  best  of  it  forward,  but  were  out-classed 
behind,  as  the  combination  of  our  opponents  was  very  good. 
Long,  Edwards,  and  Stacey  were  perhaps  the  best  forwards. 

Wednesday,  Nov,  13 — We  drew  with  Jesus,  in  Jesus  Close. 
Jesus  were  without  Illingworth,  Fitch,  and  Woods.  The  score 
was  a  goal  and  a  try  each.  Backhouse  and  NichoU  got  the  tries, 
Fegan  took  the  place-kicks.  Our  team  has  not  played  better 
this  season  than  in  this  match,  the  forwards  being  very  well 
together  and  playing  keenly,  and  the  backs  showing  good 
combination.  Backhouse  was  perhaps  the  best,  while  PuUan 
played  well  at  back.     Long  and  Edwards  were  good  forward. 

Friday y  Nov,  15 — With  a  strong  team  we  turned  the  tables  on 
Trinity  Hall,  defeating  them  by  four  goals  and  two  tries  to  nil. 
The  tries  were  got  by  Backhouse  (2),  Fegan,  Nicholl,  Long,  and 
Bigland.  Our  backs  played  very  well  in  this  match,  and  the 
forwards  also  passed  well. 

Monday t  Nov.  18 — Clare  defeated  us  on  our  own  ground  by 
two  goals  to  nil.  This  game  was  chiefly  confined  to  the  forwards, 
the  ground  being  in  a  very  bad  state,  and  our  opponents  being 
especially  strong  in  that  department. 

Tuesday,  Nov.  19 — We  defeated  Selwyn  by  the  narrow  margin 
of  one  goal,  from  a  penalty  kick  for  ofifside,  to  nil.  PuUan  at 
back,  and  afterwards  at  three-quarter,  played  very  well,  but  the 
other  three-quarters  were  not  good ;  Jackson  had  to  retire  to 
back,  being  hurt,  and  Nicholl  took  his  place.  Fegan  played 
well,  as  did  Long  and  Rowlands. 

The  Second  Team  have  not  been  successful.  They  have 
been  beaten  by  Clare,  by  four  goals  and  eleven  tries  to  nothing ; 
Trinity  by  two  goals  to  one  try,  again  by  three  goals  and  two 
tries  to  one  goal;  Reeves  gained  the  try  after  a  good  run; 
Selwyn  by  a  goal  and  two  tries  to  nothing ;  the  Old  Rugbeians 
by  one  goal.    They  beat  Pembroke  by  one  try  to  niL 

Association  Football  Club. 

Captain—H.  C.  Barradough.  Hon.  Sec—H.  Roughton. 

Matches  played  14;  won  8,  drawn  2,  lost  4. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  season  the  chances  of  raising  a 
good  te^m  seemed  but  scant,  and  the  opening  matches  produced 
somewhat  poor  results;  in  the  later  matches,  however,  the 
Eleven  have  pulled  themselves  together,  and  on  the  whole  done 


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very  fairly  well.  In  the  inter-collegiate  cup  tie  we  were 
unfortunate  enough  to  be  beaten  by  King's  in  the  first  round,  a 
fact  which  causes  us  no  little  surprise.  Lately  the  team  have 
improved  very  much  in  combination,  and  in  that  respect  are 
perhaps  better  than  the  College  Eleven  of  the  last  two  years. 
The  backs  work  hard,  but  should  endeavour  to  be  more  sure  in 
their  kicking.  The  halves  have  much  to  learn  in  passing  to 
their  forwards,  but  in  this  respect  have  greatly  improved.  The 
team  have  been  greatly  handicapped  by  the  loss  of  the  services 
of  H.  R.  Langmore,  who  was  playing  in  splendid  form  before 
he  was  unfortunately  injured.  Chevalier  has  filled  his  place  on 
the  right  wing,  and  might  have  proved  an  efficient  substitute 
had  he  passed  more,  as  he  has  plenty  of  pace  and  ought  to  be  a 
good  forward.  Of  the  freshmen  Wallis  and  Gardiner  are 
the  pick.     The  team  is  definitely  made  up  as  follows ; 

J.  Bairstow,                Goal  ♦!!.  R.  Langmore  \  ^ .  ,.  j^-v,-, 

CHToTcy            \«^-  •J.Kershaw  ]  Right  Wing 

G.C.  Jackson          J-«»^^  •H.  Roughton,  Centre 

•P.  J.  A.  Seccombe  )  ♦H.  C.  Barraclough  )  r^f,  u,:^^ 

D.  Stephens             }  Half-Backs         C.  Wallis  j  ^^-'^  '^'"^ 
H.  Gardiner            J 

♦  Old  Colonrs. 

Matches  played : — First  XI. 

Date,                          Club,                          Goals  for    against. 
Tuesday        Oct.  sa ..•. Old  Carthusians    ••••Drawn. ...2 2 


Thursday         „      2d. .  •  •Perabrdce Drawn.  •  • .  2 2 

Saturday         „      20 .  •  • .  Trinity  Harrovians    • .  Lost    •  • . .  4 
Wednesday     „      30. . . . King's  (cup  tie)     •  •  • . Lost    .  •  • .  i 


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Saturday      Nov.     2.... Corpus    Won  ••..5 o 

Tuesday  „        5.^^.Peterhouse Won  •••.3 2 

Thursday  „        7 .•.. Christ's Won  .•••3 o 

Thursday  „  14  •..Old  Carthusians    ••••Lost  •...i 4 

Friday  „  ic.. ..Trinity  Harrovians    •.Lost  •...s 6 

Saturday  „      io....Claie  Won  .•..4 2 

Wednesday     „      20. ••.Corpus    • Won  •••.2 o 

Thursday  „      21. ••.King's    Won  ••..3 i 

Tuesday  „  26.... Trinity  Etonians  ••..Won  •••.4 o 

Saturday  „      3o^.  ••Trinity  Rest Won  •••.3 1 

Second  XI. 

Wednesday  Oct.  23.^.^W.N.CobboId'sXI,^Lost    ..•.o 5 

Tuesday  „      29.^ •.Jesus  2nd   Won   •••.2 i 

Saturday      Nov.    9. ...Clare  2nd Won   ••••2 o 

Saturday         „     30. ...Jesus  2nd  •• Lost    •••.2.,.,,.4 

General  Athletic  Club. 
The  standing  Committee  now  consists  of  the  following 
members :  Mr  R.  F.  Scott  President,  Mr  A.  Harker  Treasurer, 
Mr  F.  L.  Thompson,  the  three  senior  members,  and  the  following 
Captains  of  Clubs:— H.  E.  H.  Coombes  L.M.B.C,  H.  C. 
Barraclough  A.F.C.,  J.  P.  M.  Blackett  R.U.F.C.,  H.  Roughton 
C.C.  and  A.C.,  T.  C.  Hayden  L.T.C.,  T.  E.  Sandall  L.C. 
The  two  junior  members  for  the  year  are  B.  Long  and 
A.  T.  Wallis  f  Secretary;. 


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The  Club  is  prospering,  no  less  than  80  new  members  having 
joined  this  Tenn. 

The  balance  sheet  for  the  past  year  is  appended. 
Si  John's  CoUege  General  AthUtU  Club. 
Balanc*  Sheet  for  the  Year  1888-89. 
Riceipts, 

£    '•  ^' 

Balance  in  Bank,  Octo- 
ber i,  1888 55    7  I 

Subscriptions  : — 

Michaelmas  Tenn  1888  291    5  6 

Lent  Term  1889    ....  20513  o 

Easter  Tenn  1889. •••  214    7  6 

Due  to  Treasurer •  o    a  o 


/7661S    I 


Paid 


Expenditure, 
of 


£  *.   d. 


to    Treasurers 
aubs:^ 
Ladv   Margaret    B«>at 

Club    554  to 

CricketClob 95    o 

Football  Club    31  12 

Lawn  Tennis  Chib   ••  75  18 

Athletic  Club    32    o 

Lacrosse  Club    a    7 

Thmsfenred   to  Resenre 

Fund,  June  1889  ••••  lOO    o 

Carey  for  collecting  .  • .  •  9    2 

Palmer  for  printing  .  •  •  •  5    3 

Prime  for  notice-board.,  o  f6 

Pratt  painting  do o    I 

Cleanmg  lecture-room  •  •  04 

Receipt  stamps o    2 

Balance  in  Mnk,  Sep* 

tember  11,  1889 •  59  18 


£7^  15    I 


Reserve  Fund  Account. 


Receipts. 

£    '•    ^• 

Donations  (for  light  four) 

per  Mr  Heitland    ....      37    2    o 
Transferred  from  General 

Fund,  June  1889  •••,     100    O    o 


£^n   «   o 


£    e.    d. 


Expenditure. 

Paid  to  Treasurer  Zadj^ 

Margaret  Boat  Club:^ 

Michaelmas  Term  1888 

for  light  four 35    O    o 

Lent  Term    1889    for 

lightship    50    O    o 

Balance  in  Bank,  Sep- 
tember 11, 1889.,  ••      52    2    o 


jfi37    «    o 


Audited  and  found  coreet^  \  T.  P.  M.  Blackxtt 
Oct.  22,  1889.  j  P.  H.  BxowN 

Alf&sd  Haulbk,  TYeasurer. 

It  has  been  found  in  recent  years  that  there  is  but  little 
competition  for  the  Newbery  Challenge  Cup  for  Racquets. 

Mr  Newbery,  who  was  third  wrangler  in  1853  *^^  ^  Fellow 
of  the  College,  took  a  great  interest  in  the  undergraduates  and 
their  sports.  It  was  owing  chiefly  to  his  efforts  that  the  College 
Cricket  Ground  was  obtained  and  prepared  for  its  present 
purpose,  and  he  was  also  actively  concerned  in  building  the 
Racouet  Courts.  In  recognition  of  his  services  the  Newbery 
Challenge  Cup  for  Racquets  was  subscribed  for.    No  record 


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can  be  fonnd  of  the  original  conditions  under  which  it  was  to  be 
held,  thoagh  several  old  members  of  the  College  have  been 
consulted.  Its  first  holder  was  Mr  H.  Hoare  in  1859,  the  next 
the  Rev  £.  W.  Bowling  in  1862,  the  last  holder  for  Racquets 
was  Mr  W.  H.  Ainger. 

The  game  of  racquets  having  gone  out  of  fashion  for  the 
present,  while  it  seems  a  pity  to  have  a  handsome  challenge  cup 
lying  idle  in  College,  the  Committee  of  the  General  Athletic 
Club  have  determined  to  offer  it  as  a  Challenge  Cup  for  Lawn 
Tennis  for  the  next  five  years,  and  the  following  rules  have 
been  approved  by  the  Committee. 

1.  That  the  Cup  shall  be  called  the  <Newberv'  Challenge  Cap. 

2.  That  it  shall  be  open  for  competition  to  all  Members  of  tne  General 
Athletic  Club  who  have  not  ezceedeo  their  fourth  year  of  residence. 

3.  That  snbiect  to  the  foregoing  role  the  Cup  may  be  won  any  number 
of  tunes.    The  Cup  remains  the  property  of  the  Club. 

4.  The  conditions  of  the  competition  shall  be  settled  by  the  Committee 
of  the  Lawn  Tennis  Club  from  time  to  time,  and  shall  be  posted  on  the  screens. 

5.  The  winner  of  the  Cup  shall  also  receive  a  prize  to  the  value  of  ;f  I.  5x. 

6.  The  competition  of  the  Challenge  Cup  shall  take  place  in  the  May 
Term  of  each  year.    The  draw  to  be  placed  on  the  screens. 

7.  The  Cup  to  remain  in  the  custody  of  the  successful  competitor  until 
the  1st  May  of  the  succeeding  year,  when  it  shall  be  given  up  to  the  Captain 
of  the  Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

The  President  of  the  General  Athletic  Club  will  be  much 
obliged  to  any  old  member  of  the  College  who  can  furnish 
details  with  regard  to  the  early  history  of  the  Cup. 

Long  Vacation  Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

Though  not  quite  so  successful  as  last  year,  we  may  fairly 
congratulate  ourselves  on  the  results  of  the  matches.  The 
following  list,  which  would  have  been  larger  but  for  the  rainy 
weather,  will  speak  for  itself. 

Ruhbirs 
DaU  Opponents  Ground  won        lost 

Thursday    July    l8.,. .Jesus    .St John's    ,.8 i 

Friday  „      19.. ..Christ's   „  5 d 

Wednesday  „      24....Caius  „  2}  ....o| 


Thursday       „      25.. ..King's     „  ...8 1 

Tuesday         „      30....Shelford  ..••  ...•        „  5 4 

Saturday    Aug.     3.... Cavendish ,,  6 3 


Monday  „  |. .. .Clare  ^•••« •       „  ••••.... 9*****tO 

Tuesday  „  6. ••, Christ's  Christ's   5 4 

Wednesday  „  7.,,.Shelford ..Shelford ....3 0 

Saturday  „  10. ...Trinity    Trinity 4. .....5 

Thursday  „  15. ...King's     King's ••..7 2 

Friday  „  16. ...Jesus   St  John's    ••••••..8 i 

Saturday  „  17. ...Trinity    Trinity..  •., 6 3 

A  match  with  Corpus  was  left  unfinished  at  an  early  stage, 
somewhat  in  the  favour  of  our  opponents. 

The  ties  were  won  as  follows : — Open  Doubles :  C.  E.  Owen 
and  L.  H.  K.  Bushe-Fox ;  Open  Singles :  C.  E.  Owen  ;  Handicap 
Singles:  W.  L.  Benthall ;  F.  R.  Dinnis  (second  prize). 


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In  spite  of  the  disappointment  it  would  cause  to  some  of  the 
candidates,  it  was  found  impossible  to  have  a  group  photo- 
graphed as  the  team«  without  making  invidious  distinctions. 
The  long  list  of  College  representatives  given  below  will  be  a 
certain  compensation. 

H.  Simpson  (Capt.J  £.  J.  Brooks  B.  H.  Lees 
W.  L.  Benthall  (Sec,J             F.  R.  Dinnis  E.  W.  Radd 
L.  H.  K.  Bushe-Fox               A.  Foxley                     T.  E.  Sandall 
G.  E.  Green                              L,  Harrison                   W.  Waldon 
G.  Hodson                  H.  S.  WiUcocks 

The  Eagle  Lawn  Tennis  Club. 
The  following   members    have   been    elected    this  Term: 
C.  E.  Ow^n,  A.  T.  Wallis,  and  R.  H.  Forster. 

Lacrosse  Club. 

At  a  meeting  held  in  the  Easter  Term  the  following  officers 
were  elected  :  Captain^^T,  E.  Sandall ;  Secretary — ^J.  Lupton  ; 
Committee — E.  Brooks,  G.  Longman,  and  J.  H.  Reeves. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  present  Term  the  prospects  of  the 
Club  did  not  look  promising,  as  only  four  old  colours  were  still 
in  residence.  The  Amalgamation  Committee,  however,  granted 
a  supply  of  Club  Crosses,  and  a  considerable  number  of  new 
players  have  since  joined.  We  hope  to  have  more  next  Term 
when  football  is  at  an  end. 

Only  one  Lacrosse  match  has  been  played  this  Term,  viz. 
Trinity  v.  The  Rest,  on  Nov.  19,  when  the  result  was  a  draw, 
three  goals  each.  In  this  four  Johnians  were  playing — Sandall, 
Reeves,  Villy  and  Grenville.  Two  other  matches  were  arranged, 
viz.  John's  v.  Trinity  on  Nov.  26,  and  r.  Inter-collegiate  L.  C, 
on  Nov.  29,  but  were  postponed  owing  to  the  snow.  Next 
Term,  however,  we  hope  to  have  a  card  of  over  a  dozen  fixtures, 
when  we  trust  that  the  style  of  play  will  be  found  to  be  in 
considerable  advance  on  that  of  last  year. 

We  might  mention  in  conclusion  that  Sandall,  Reeves,  and 
Villy  have  played  several  times  for  the  University  this  Term, 
Reeves  being  especially  good  in  the  Blackheath  match. 

4TH  (Camb.  Univ.)  Vol.  Batt.  :  The  Suffolk  Regiment. 

B  company  this  Term  has  been  suffering  from  a  dearth  of 
officers  and  recruiting  sergeants.  We  regret  that  the  severe 
illness  of  Lieut.  W.  D.  Jones  has  deprived  us  of  the  services  of 
our  most  energetic  recruiting  officer.  We  hope  that  he  may  be 
able  to  resume  his  duties  with  renewed  energies  next  Term. 

The  following  promotions  have  been  made :  Corporal 
Benthall  to  be  Sergeant,  Lance-Corporals  Davys,  Cassell,  and 
Hutton,  to  be  Corporals, 

The  Company  Cup  for  the  Term  was  won  by  B.  T,  Nunns 
with  a  score  of  89  points. 

We  have  had  two  sham  fights  during  this  Term.  On 
October  24,   B  company  formed  part  of  a  force  advancing 


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from  Colon  on  Cambridge;  the  defending  force  under  the 
command  of  Colonel  Roberts  and  the  attackers  under  Major 
Scott.  On  November  21  we  had  a  night  attack  from  the 
direction  of  Chesterton  on  af  party  defending  a  position  behind 
Waites'  Boathouse,  B  company  on  this  occasion  being  with  the 
attacking  force.  The  results  of  these  mimic  combats  are  still 
under  discussion,  each  set  of  combatants  being  convinced  that 
their  superior  skill  and  energy  was  crowned  with  victory. 

A  band  has  again  ^^exk  started  in  the  Corps.  Previous 
experience  has  shewn  that  a  band  composed  of  University 
Members  alo.ne  is  not  sufficiently  permanent  to  be  of  use,  while 
the  amount  of  time  required  for  practices  is  more  than  can  be 
spared  by  most  men.  The  nucleus  or  "regulation  band"  of 
three  men  per  company  consists  therefore  of  paid  musicians 
from  the  town,  who  are  enrolled  Volunteers,  and  as  such  earn 
a  grant  which  goes  in  aid  o(  the  band  fund.  P^of.  Stanford  has 
given  much  valuable  advice  and  assistance  in  the  formation  of 
the  band  and  in  the  choice  of  instruments,  and.  it  is  hoped  that 
it  may  prove  a  useful  addition  to  the  Corps. 

Arrangements  have  been  come  to  with  Jesus  College, 
whereby  we  obtain  a  new  lease  of  the  range,  on  condition  of 
surrendering  the  present  parade  groun.4  when  required  for 
building  purposes.  For  the  present  we  shall  have  the  use  of 
the  full  range,  but  ultimately  we  shall  only  be  able  to  have  a 
range  of  1000  yards.  A  new  parade  ground  will  be  formed 
near  the  pavilion.  The  loss  of  the  longer  ranges  is  much  to  be 
regretted,  but  was  inevitable ;  the  bursarial  eye  had  marked  out 
the  parade  ground  in  eligible  buildiiSg  plots  for  roads  and  villas. 
The  renewal  of  the  lease  was  therefore  a  matter  of  terms,  and 
the  best  terms  obtainable  have  been  secured  for  the  Corps.  So 
now  the  old  parade  ground  is  lying  dormant,  like  a  fairy 
princess,  waiting  for  the  awakening  kiss  of  the  jerry-builder. 

Debating  Society. 

Prisident-^H,  F.  Baker.  Vice- President ^1,  Nicklin.  Treasurer-^ h,  P, 
Bender.    Secretary— A.  S.  Tctley.     CtmimitUe—Vi .  W.  Haslett,  A.  Foxley. 

The  meetings  of  the  Society  have  been  held  in  Lecture- 
room  I,  and  without  exception  have  evoked  a  great  deal  of 
interest.  The  attendance  has  been  well  kept  up,  while  ^^ 
considerablje  number  of  new  speakers  have  come  forward, 
chiefly  from  among  the  freshmen,  of  whom  a  large  proportion 
have  joined  the  Society.  Financially  it  is  more  prosperous 
than  ever,  and  has  a  most  promising  outlook  for  next  Ter% 
The  subjects  debated  during  this  Term  are  as  follows : — 

Oct,  19 — "That  this  House  views  with  approval  the  spread 
of  Labour  Combination  as  expressed  by  the  recent  strikes.' 
Proposed  by  T.  R.  Glover ;  opposed  by  G.  D.  Kempt.  Carried 
by  21  to  20. 

Oct.  26 — "  That  this  House  believes  that  radical  Reforms  are 
urgently  necessary  in  the  three  Estates  of  the  Realm."   Proposed 
by  A.  J.  Pitkin ;  opposed  by  A.  Foxley.    Lost  by  13  to  26. 
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Nov.  2 — "That  University  Edacation  unfits  a  man  for 
practical  life."  Proposed  by  T.  Nicklin;  opposed  by  L.  B. 
Radford.     Lost  by  6  to  26. 

Nov.  9 — Impromptu  Debate. 

N&v.  16 — "That  it  is  for  the  interest  of  Great  Britain  to 
support  the  Triple  Alliance."  Proposed  by  W.  L.  Benthall; 
opposed  by  G.  R.  Garcia.    Lost  by  9  to  12. 

Nov.  23— "That  the  State  Church  in  Wales  should  be 
Disestablished."  Proposed  by  L.  W.  MacBride;  opposed  by 
G.  F.  Given  Wilson.    Lost  by  12  to  19. 

Nod,  30—"  That  this  House  approves  of  War."  Proposed 
by  M.  D.  Darbishire  BA. ;  opposed  by  A.  P.  Bender.  Carried 
by  13  to  10. 

llie  average  attendance  has  been  48. 

Study  of  Social  Questions. 

Two  meetings  have  been  held  this  Term.  The  first  was  in 
King's  College  Hall  on  November  7,  Professor  Humphry  taking 
the  chair.  Mr  Tillett  of  the  Dock  Labourers'  Union,  and 
Mr  Aves  of  Toynbee  Hall,  gave  addresses  on  'The  London 
Dock  Labourer.'  The  Hall  was  crowded,  and  the  interest  great. 
The  Pall  Mall  Gazelle  the  next  evening  gave  the  following 
account  of  the  meeting : 

«Mr  Ben  Tillett  visited  Cambridge  last  night  to  relate  his  tale  of  the 
docken.  He  was  the  guest  of  the  Cambridge  Society  for  the  Study  of  Social 
Questions.  .  .  .  Mr  Tulett  wound  up  with  an  impassioned  exordium  which 
Drought  forth  bursts  of  applause." 

On  this  slip  the  Si  Jameses  Gaulle  published  the  following 
verses  by  a  well-known  Johnian : 

'Twas  in  the  dassic  halls  of  King's  . 
(Devoted  once  to  higher  things) 
That  Ben  proposed  to  tell  of  strikes 
And  air  the  wrongs  of  William  Sikes ; 
Professors,  proctora,  doctors  come, 
Awaiting  Ben's  exordium. 
But  Ben,  who  knew  the  distance  wide 
That  dons  and  dockers  doth  divide 
rrhe  latter  silver  speech  approve, 
The  former  golden  silence  love), 
Was  diplomatically  dumb- 
He  stopped  at  the  exordium. 
Ye  orators  of  high  degree. 
And  spouters  eke  of  language  free^ 
If  ye  would  labour's  triimnph  gain, 
And  win  applause  from  learned  men, 
Remember,  pray,  the  word  is  *<mum," 
And  end  at  your  exordium. 

The  second  meeting  took  place  in  our  J^cture-room  VI  on 
November  21,  when  Mr  Loch,  of  the  Charity  Organisation 
Society,  and  Mr  H.  J.  Willink,  spoke  on  *  Pauper  Colonies  in 
Germany  and  Holland.'  Professor  Marshall  took  the  chair,  and 
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ToYNBEE  Hall. 

The  Rev  S.  A.  Bamett,  Warden,  and  Mr  Aves,  Secretary, 
were  in  College  on  October  20,  and  met  a  number  of  under- 
graduates and  graduates  in  Dr  Mac  Alistei^s  rooms.  A  series  of 
meetings  in  vanous  colleges  were  arranged  for  this  Term.  These 
have  been  sociable  rather  than  formal,  and  to  each  a  resident 
or  associate  of  Tojmbee  Hall  has  come  down  to  answer 
questions  or  discuss  particular  aspects  of  its  work. 

Our  College  meeting  was  to  have  been  held  in  Lecture- 
room  VI  on  Saturday,  November  23.  Mr  H.  S.  Foxwell  was  to 
take  the  Chair,  and  Mr  Cyril  Jackson,  of  New  College,  Oxford, 
came  to  speak  on  the  relations  of  the  University  •  settlers '  to 
elementary  education  and  especially  to  the  teachers  in  Board 
Schools  in  East  London ;  but  the  great  interest  in  the  discussion 
of  Disestablishment  in  Wales,  held  by  the  Debating  Society  on 
the  same  evening,  rendered  it  necessary  to  postpone  the 
meeting  till  next  Term. 

During  the  present  Term  Dr  Abbott,  Mr  H.  S.  Lewis, 
Mr  A.  H.  Smith,  Mr  A.  Hoare,  and  other  Johnians  have  given 
their  aid  at  the  Settlement. 

Any  friends  of  Toynbee  Hall  who  want  to  pay  their  subscrip- 
tions for  the  current  year  may  send  them  to  Dr  D.  MacAlister, 
Treasurer,  or  F.  B.  Glover,  College  Secretary. 

The  College  Reading  Room. 

There  is  no  event  of  particular  interest  to  record  this  Term. 
Our  sincerest  thanks  are  due  to  the  Master  for  the  photograph 
of  the  tomb  of  the  Lady  Margaret ;  to  the  Rev  A.  Caldecott  for 
3  prints  after  Doyle,  the  celebrated  humourist ;  to  Dr  Donald 
Mac  Alister  for  two  volumes  of  the  Modem  Cyclopcedia ;  to  the 
Editors  of  the  Eagle  for  a  complete  set  of  the  Magazine  and  for 
sundry  School  Magazines  and  Periodicals;  and  lastly  to  the 
Association  Football  Club,  who  have  placed  an  album,  contain- 
ing portraits  of  previous  teams,  in  the  Reading  Room. 

An  auction  was  held  at  the  beginning  of  the  Term,  conducted 
by  R.  H.  Forster.  The  attendance  was  small,  but  there  was 
some  very  keen  competition. 

The  Committee  this  Term  consisted  of  Mr  Harker,  Chairman, 
A.  J.  Robertson,  W.  C.  Laming,  and  C.  C.  Waller,  Secretary, 

The  College  Mission. 

A  great  change  has  come  over  the  Mission  work  in  Walworth 
during  the  past  year.  The  new  Church  of  the  Lady  Margaret 
has  been  consecrated,  and  with  this  the  centre  of  work  has 
shifted  from  the  old  Mission,  which  is  so  closely  connected 
with  all  that  has  been  done  by  the  Missioners.  The  Consecra* 
tion  took  place  on  Monday,  June  17.  A  procession  of  about 
100  undergraduates  and  clergy,  robed  in  surplices,  walked  in 
double  file  from  the  old  Mission  to  the  Church,  '^singing^  : 
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showed  much  interest  in  the  proceedings,  and  not  a  jeer  or  scoff 
was  heard  from  the  crowd  of  bystanders.  The  Church  was 
crowded,  and  the  congregation  joined  heartily  in  the  hymns  and 
responses.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Bishop  of  Rochester. 

After  the  service  a  meeting  was  held  in  the  old  Mission,  at 
which  the  Master  took  the  Chair.  Telegrams,  letters,  and 
messages  were  comtnunicated  by  the  Master  from  the  Arch- 
bishop, the  Duke  of  Devonshire  (Chancellor  of  the  University), 
the  Earl  of  Powis  (High  Steward),  Dr  Butler  (Vice-Chancellor), 
Lord  Windsor,  and  the  Marquis  of  Salisbury  (Chancellor  of  the 
University  of  Oxford). 

The  Bishop  of  the  diocese  then  addressed  the  meeting*.  In 
the  course  of  his  speech,  he  said  he  regretted  that  the  reduced 
income  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  prevented  them 
from  building  a  parsonage  or  giving  an  endowment  at  present, 
but  he  felt  sure  that  even  without  this  assistance  the  good  work 
Wbuld  not  suffet. 

After  Prof.  Sir  Gabriel  Stokes  M.P.,  President  of  the  Royal 
Society,  had  spoken.  Chancellor  Dibdin  said  that  he  did  not 
feel  inclined  to  accept  with  so  much  resignation  las  was 
recommended  to  them  by  the  Bishop  the  action  or  rather 
inaction  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners,  and  moved  the 
following  resolution : 

"That  this  meeting  of  members  of  St  John's  GoUcge  and  friends  of 
St  John's  Mission  have  heard  vdth  great  regret  the  decision  of  the  Eccle- 
siastical Commissioners,  and  having  regard  to  the  large  property  of  the 
Commissioners  in  this  neighbourheod,  they  venture  respectfully  to  urge  upon 
Ihe  Commissioners  a  reconsideration  of  their  decision." 
This  was  seconded  by  the  Rev  Dr  Merriman,  and  unanimously 
adopted. 

After  Mr  R.  Horton  Smith  Q.C.  had  said  a  few  words  the 
meeting  terminated. 

In  the  evening  the  Church  was  again  crowded,  the  congre- 
gation being  entirely  composed  of  the  people  of  the  district. 
The  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Master.  During  the  octave 
the  sermons  at  the  daily  evening  services  were  preached  by  the 
Bishop  of  Marlborough,  the  Vicar  of  Bishop  Auckland  (for 
Canon  Body),  Canon  Lister  of  Hackney,  Canon  Luckock, 
Prebendary  M.  F.  Sadler,  Rev  W.  W.  Hough  (Corpus  College 
Mission),  and  the  Rev  W.  Allen  Whitworth.  Every  morning 
at  9.30  a  brief  address  was  given  by  a  College  or  School 
Missioner  of  the  neighbourhood. 

A  more  detailed  account  of  the  proceedings,  in  the  form  of 
a  pamphlet,  has  been  distributed  throughout  the  College. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  Term  the  Committee  were  informed 
to  their  great  regret  that  the  Rev  F.  H.  Francis  desired  to  retire 
from  his  post  as  Assistant  Missioner  for  a  new  sphere  of  work ; 
the  Committee  felt  unable  to  resist  his  evident  desire  to  enlarge 
his  experience,  and  recorded  on  their  minutes  their  deep  sense 
pf  the  debt  the  Mission  owed  to  him.  Their  resolution  was 
Engrossed  on  vellum  in  an  illuminated  design,  to  be  presented 
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The  Terminal  meeting  was  held  on  Wednesday,  November  1 3, 
in  Lecture  Room  VI ;  there  was  a  large  attendance,  the  room 
being  quite  full.  The  Master,  who  took  the  Chair,  briefly 
referred  to  the  Consecration.  The  Rev  W.  I.  Phillips,  on  being 
asked  to  speak,  said  there  were  two  aspects  under  which  he 
viewed  the  prospects  of  the  Mission,  first  that  of  thankfulness 
for  the  past,  and  hope  arising  therefrom,  and  second  that  of 
desperation,  when  he  thought  of  the  present  difficulties ;  the 
loss  of  Mr  Francis  seemed  irreparable.  It  was  absolutely 
necessary  for  the  success  of  the  work  that  a  real  interest  should 
be  preserved  in  the  College;  one  thing  especially  made  him 
feel  that  the  work  in  the  College  and  at  Walworth  was  one, 
namely  the  Sunday  evening  intercessions  in  the  Chapel,  and  he 
hoped  that  these  would  not  be  allowed  to  lapses 

The  Rev  R.  P.  Roseveare  B.A.,  well  remembered  in  L.M.B.C. 
and  Football  Club,  gave  a  very  picturesque  and  amusing  account 
of  his  experience  with  1 3  boys  from  London  (7  from  Walworth 
and  6  from  East  London)  whom  he  with  some  friends  took  for 
a  fortnight's  holiday  to  the  seaside  in  N.  Wales  (see  Eagle  for 
March  1889).  He  thought  more  might  well  be  done  in  this 
way  by  young  men,  and  further  had  hopes  that  a  club  or  institute 
of  some  kind  for  boys  in  South  London  might  be  set  on  foot  by 
the  joint  operation  of  the  College  and  School  Missioners  now 
working  there. 

The  farewell  address  was  then  presented  to  Mr  Francis  on 
the  motion  of  Professor  Mayor,  seconded  by  A.  J.  Robertson, 
late  Junior  Secretary. 

Mr  Francis  in  reply  said  that  he  owed  much  more  to  the 
Mission  than  the  Mission  owed  to  him ;  what  he  had  learned 
during  the  last  five  years,  as  an  undergraduate  and  as  a  clergy* 
man,  would  never  be  forgotten,  but  would  last  through  life ;  the 
Mission  had  been  his  teacher.  The  lines  on  which  the  Mission 
had  been  worked  were  quite  new  in  South  London }  Christianity 
had  been  the  basis  of  their  work,  and  from  this  they  had 
worked  outwards,  trying  to  get  hold  of  individuals  and  to  bring 
them  really  to  Christ,  rather  than  to  attract  a  large  number  of 
insincere  and  nominal  believers.  The  clergy  around  told  them 
that  to  work  so  closely  on  Prayer  Book  lines  would  not  succeed^ 
but  the  result  had  surpassed  even  their  own  expectations; 
the  leaven  of  the  few  was  working  as  a  very  wholesome  influence 
among  the  many. 

The  tone  of  this  meeting  was  veir  encouraging,  and  it  is 
hoped  that  a  fresh  impetus  within  the  College  itself  is  now 
given  to  the  Mission. 

All  the  Senior  members  of  the  Committee  have  been  re-elected, 
with  the  exception  of  Mr  Hill,  resigned,  whose  place  is  filled 
by  Mr  Caldecott.  The  Junior  members  are  H.  E.  H. 
Coombes  B.A.,  E.  A.  Hensley,  B.  Long,  J.  A.  Cameron, 
H.  R.  Kruger,  A.  T.  Wallis.  The  officers  are:  Treasurer^ 
Mr  Watson;  Secretary^  Mr  Caldecott;  Junior  Treasurer^  A.  T. 
Wallis;  Junior  Secretary^ '&.  Long, 


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Hilleaiy,  F.  E.,  ll.d. 
Hogg,  R.  W. 
fHuDSON,  Prof.  W.  H. 

H.,  LL.M.  (E.  1891) 
Ingram,  Rev.  D.  S.  (E. 

1894) 
Jackson,  Rev.  A. 
Johnson,  A.  R. 
Johnson,  Rev,  E.  J.  F. 

(E.  1890) 
Jozies,  H.  R.,  B.C.,  M.B. 
Kerly,  D.  M.,  LL^B. 
Lamplugh,  Rev.  D. 
Langham,  Rev.  E.  N. 
Larmor,  J.,  D.SC.  (E. 

189.2) 
+Lee,  W.  J. 
Lewis,  Rev.  E.  T. 
Lewis,  Rev.  S.  S.,  F.a.A. 

(E.  1894) 
Ley,  Rev.  A.  B.  M. 
Liveing,Prof.G.D.,p.B.fl« 
Lloyd,  Rev.  J.  B. 
Lloyd,  j.  H.  (E.  i8qi) 
Lloyd,  LI  (E.  1893) 
Love,  A.  E.  H. 
Lunn,  Rev.  J.  R. 
*MacAlister,  D.,  m.d., 

F.&.C.P. 

Macalister,  Prof.  A.,M.D.y 

P.B.8. 

Main,  P.  T. 
Marr,  J.  E.,  p.a.a. 
Marshall,  Prof^  A.  (E( 

1894) 
Marshall,  Hev.  F.  C. 
Marten,  A.  G.,  LL.D.,a.o. 
Mathews,  G.  B.  (E.  '92) 
Matthew,  G.  A.,  ll.b. 
fMayor,  Rev.  J.  B. 
Mayor,  Rev.  Prof.  J.E.B, 
Merivale,  C. 

Merriman,  Rev.  J.,  d.d^ 
Morris,  A.  L. 
Morshead,  R. 
tMoscr,  E.  B. 
tMoss,  Rev.  H.  W. 
Moss,  W. 
Moss,  J.  C. 
Mossop,  G.  A. 
MouNTFiELD,  Rev.  D* 

W.  (E.  1890) 
Muirhead,  F.  L.,  ll.b. 
fMullinger,  J.  B. 
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Nevinson,  Rev.  T.  K.  B. 
Newbold,  Rev.  W.  T. 
Newton,  Rev.  H.  (E. 

1891) 
Newton,  T.  H.  G. 
Pagan,  Rev.  A. 
Page,  T.  E. 
Parker,  Rev.  T.  H. 
Parkinson,  Rev.  S.,  d.d., 

p.ii.A.8.,  P.E.8.  (E.  '93) 
Paton,  J.  L.  A.,  b.a. 
Pendlebury,  R. 
Pendlebury,  C,  p.b.a.8. 
Penraddock,  F.  F. 
Phillips,  R.  W. 
Picken,  Rev.  W.  S. 
Pierpoint,  Rev.  R.  D. 
Pieters,  Rev.  J.  W.,  b.d. 
Pinsent,  H.  C. 
Powell,  F.  S. 
Pkitchard,    Rev.  C, 

D.D.,  F.K.8.  (L.  1891) 

Pryke,  Rev.  W.  E. 
Radcliffe,  H. 
Rapson,  E.  J. 
tRaynor,  Rev.  A.  G.  S. 
Read,  Prof.  H.  N. 
Reyner,  Rev.  G.  F.,  d.d. 
fRlCHARDSON,  Rev.  G. 

(E.  1892) 
Ridley,  F.  T. 
Rigby,  Rev.  O. 
Roberts,  T. 
Roby,  H.  J. 
fRolleston,  H.  D.,  x.b., 

B.& 


Abraham,  W. 
Adams,  Rev.  A. 
Ainger,  W.  H. 
Anthony,  E.  A. 
Armitage,  H.  R, 
Ashbumer,  T. 
Atherton,  Rev.  E.  £. 
Atlay,  G.  W. 
Atmore,  W,  A. 
AtUee,  J. 
Badham,  W.  A. 
Baines,  Rev.  D. 
Bannerman,  W.  E. 
Barnes,  Rev.  J.  S.  (E. 

1891) 
Barraclougb,  H.  C. 
Barraclough,  N.  C,  ll.b. 
Beaumont,  J.  A. 
Bennett,  H.  M. 
Benoy,  Rev.  J. 
Benthall,  H.  E. 
Bradford,  H. 
Brereton,  C.  S.  H. 
Biindley,  H.  H. 


fRoseveare,  W.  N. 
RowE,  Rev,T.B.(E.'94) 
Rudd,  Rev.  E.  J.  S. 
Rushbrooke,  W.  G. 
Russell,  Rev.  H.,  b.d. 
Samways,  D.  W.,  D.8C. 

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Sandford,  Rev.  F.  (E. 

1890)      ' 

fSANDYS,  J.  E.,  LiTT.D. 

(E.  1894) 
Scott,  R.  F.  (E.  1896) 
Sephton,  Rev.  J.  (E. 

1894) 
Sheppard,  Rev.  C.  P. 
Shore,  L.  £.,  b.c.,  m.b. 
Shuker,  A. 
•Smith,  G.  C.  M. 
Smith,  H.  W.  (M.  '91) 
Smith,  W.  F.  (E.  1891) 
Spencer,  R. 
fStanwell,  Rev.  C. 
Stevens,  Rev.  A.  J. 
Stewart,  M. 
Stopford,  Rev.  J.  B. 
Stoat,  G.  F. 
Stuart,  C.  M. 
fTanner,  J.  R. 
Teall,  J.  J.  H. 
Terry,  F.  C.  B. 
Thomson,  Rev.  F.  D; 
Thompson,  F.  L. 
Thompson,  H.,  M.D. 
ToRRY,  Rev.  A.  F.  (E. 

1893) 

Bachelors  of  Arts : 

Brooks,  E.  J. 
Brown,  G.  E.  D. 
Brown,  P  H.,  LI..B. 
Brown,  W. 
Burstall,  H,  F.  W. 
Butlerworth,  J.  H. 
Chadwick,  Rev.  A.  (E. 

1894) 
Chaplin,  W.  H.  (E.  '91) 
Chaplin,  T.  H.  A.,  m.b., 

B.C. 

Chapman,  Rev.  A.  G. 
-Christie,  W.  N. 
Clark,  A.  J. 
Clarke,  E.  T. 
Clarke,  W.  J. 
Clay,  S. 
Cleave,  P,  R. 
CoLMAN,  J.  (E.  1891) 
Colson,  J. 
Coombes.  H.  E.  H. 
Cousins,  W.  A. 
Crag^,  E.  H. 
Darbishire,  H.  D. 


tTottenham,  H.  R. 
Towsey,  Rev.  A. 
fTucker,  T.  G. 
Underwood,  Rev.  C. 

W.  (E.  1894) 
•Vaughan,  M. 
tWace,  F.  C,  ll.m. 
Walker,  Rev.  D. 
Ward,  Rev.  J.  T. 
Warren,  Rev.  W.  (E. 

1891) 
Watson,  Rev.  Frederic 
Watson,  Frank 
Webb,  R.  R. 
Weldon,  W.  F.  R. 
tWhitaker,  Rev.  G.  H. 
Whitworth,  Rev.  W. 

A.  (£.  1894) 
Widdowson,  T. 
fWiLKiNS,  Prof.  A.  S., 

LITT.D.  (E.  189I) 

Wilkinson,  G.  G. 
Williams,  A. 
Williams,  A.  H.,  M.B. 
Wilson,  W.S,(E. '93) 
Winstone,  E.  H.  (E. 

1891) 
Wiseman,  Rev.  H.  J. 
Wright,  Rev.  F.  P. 
Wright,  R.  T. 
Wood,  Rev.  W.  S. 
fYeld,  Rev.  C. 
Yeo,  J.  S. 


Davys,  G.  P. 

De  Wend,  W.  F.,  Ii.B. 

Douglas,  A.  F.,  ll.b. 

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Drysdale,  J.  H. 
Du  Heaume,  J.  Le  G. 
Edmunds,  L.  H. 
Evans,  F.  P.,  m.b.,  b.o. 
Ewing,  Rev.  A.  G.  C 
Fagan,  P.  J. 
Fedden,  W.  C.  D. 
Fernando,  C.  M.,  LL.B. 
Field,  A.  P.  C. 
Field,  Rev.A.T.(E.'9t) 
Fisher,  E. 
Forster,  R.  H. 
Foxley.  Rev.  C. 
Francis,  H.  A. 
Gaddum,  F.  D, 
Gatty,  E.  P. 
Gillmore,  D.  S. 
Glover,  L.  G. 
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Greenidge,  S.  J.  N. 
Gregoiy,  W.  G. 
GrenfeU,  J.  G. 
HaU,  R.  R. 
Hamilton,  T.  A.  G. 
tHankin,  E.  H. 
Hanmer,  Rev.  H. 
Harbottle.  A.,  ll.b. 
Harper,  W,  N. 
Harris,  W. 
Harrison,  Rer.  £. 
Hartley,  H.  W. 
Hartley,  T.  P. 
Haydon,  T.  E. 
Hayward,   M.  H.  W., 

IJ..B. 

fHeath,  C.  H. 
Henry.  C   D. 
Hemng,  Rev.  T. 
Hcward,  H. 
Hill.  A. 

Hill,  H.  H.  L.  (E.  '94) 
Hodson,  G. 
Howell,  T.  F.,  LL.B. 
Humphries,  S. 
Hutchinson,  Rev.  H.  N. 
Hughes,  R. 
Jacques,  Rev.  J.  K. 
Telferis,  W.  H.,  ll.b. 
ToNBS,  Rev.  G.  (E.  '91) 
Kellett.  A.  F. 
Kendall,  W.  C. 
Kerslake.  Rev.  £.  K. 
Kirby,  T.  H. 
Lake,  P. 

Lambert,  S.  H.  A. 
Langroore,  H.  R. 
Legg,  W,  P. 
Lewis,  C.  E.  M. 
Lewis,  H.  S. 
Locke,  F.  S. 
Lomax,  J.  F. 
Mackinnon,  F.  A. 
Manxung,  A.  S. 


Alexander,  J.  J. 
Alien,  F.  L. 
Bairstow,  J. 
Baldwin,  A.  B. 
Barton,  J.  H.  C. 
Barton,  P.  F. 
Bender,  A.  P. 
BenthaU,  W.  L. 
•Blackett,  J.  P.  M. 
Blomfield,  C.  H. 
Brown,  H. 
Brown,  W.  J. 
Bachanan,  G.  B. 


Marshall,  E.  N. 
Martin,  C. 
Marvel,  F. 

Mason,  Rev.  M.  H.  H. 
May,  Rev.  J.  P. 
May,  R.  G. 
Mendis,  J.  G.  C. 
Middlemast,  E.  W. 
MiLLABD,  A.  C.  (E.  '93) 
Milner,  W,  L. 
Monro,  A.  E. 
Moreland,  W.  C.  H. 
Moore,  P.  L. 
Moulton,  W.  F. 
Mundahl,  H.  S.,  LL.B. 
Newbery,  H.  C. 
Newton,  J.  H. 
NichoU,  L.  H. 
Nicholson,  J.  P. 
Nicol,  Rev.  A.  R.  A. 
Noaks,  B. 
Norman,  L. 
Nunn,  H. 
Orgill,  W.  L. 
Palmer,  Rev.  T.  L. 
Pearce,  A.  G.  R. 
Pennington,  A.  R, 
Phillips,  C.  T. 
tPond»  C.  A.  M. 
Pope,  R.  M. 
Portbury,  H.  A. 
Prescott,  E. 
fRAM,  Rev.  S.  A.  S. 

(E.  1892) 
Rendle,  A.  B. 
Roberts,  A.  C, 
Rudd,  E.  W. 
Russell,  W.  A. 
SArNSBUR.Y',    A.   J.  (E. 

1894) 
tSalisbury,  C.  H. 
Sampson,  R.  A. 
Sandoe,  C.  F. 
Sandys,  Rev.  E.  T. 


Undergraduates  : 

Bumsted,  H.  J. 
•Cameron,  A. 
Carlisle,  H.  D. 
Cassell,  J,  R. 
Cattell,  Dr.  J.  McK. 
Chambers,  E.  A. 
Choppin,  H.  E, 
Clark,  J.  R.  J. 
Clegg,  A. 
Cleworth,  J. 
Cole,  A.  B.  F. 
Collier,  W. 
Collum,  A.  P.  T. 


Sapsworth,  C. 
Sarson,  A. 
fSchiller,  F.  N. 
Seward,  A.  C. 
Shawcross,  H.  W. 
tSikes,  E.  E. 
Simpson,  H. 
Slack,  F.  A. 
Smith,  E.  W. 
Smith,  H. 
Smith,  Tunstall 
Smith,  T. 
Spenser,  H.  J. 
Stacey,  R.  H. 
Stapley,  A.  M. 
Szumowski,  H. 
Tallent,  A.  T.,  ll.b. 
Tarleton,  Rev.  J.  F. 
Tatham,  Rev.  T.  B. 
Teape,  Rev.  W.  M, 
Thomas,  J.  R. 
Thomas,  L.  W. 
Thompson,  A.  C, 
Toppin,  C. 
tTurncr,  G.  J. 
Walsh,  F.  A.  H. 
Ward,  Rev.  E.  B. 
Ward,  Rev.  G.  W.  C. 
Ward,  Rev.  H. 
Warner,  G.  F. 
Watson,  J. 
Way,  Rev.  R.  F. 
West,  W.  S. 
White,  Rev.  G.  D. 
Williams,  R.  L. 
WUlis,  W.  N. 
Wilson,  A.  J. 
Wilson,  H. 
Wilson,  W.  C. 
t  Windsor,  J.,  ll.b. 
Winter,  J.  H. 
Woodhouse,  A.  A. 
Woodhouse,  Rev.  C.  J. 
Young,  F.  C. 


Cousins,  E.  R, 
Cubitt,  S.  H. 
Cuff,  A.  W. 
Cuthbertson,  F.  E.  L. 
Dadina,  F.  M. 
Ditchfield,  J.  W.  H. 
Dobbs,  W.  J. 
Elliott,  A.  E. 
England,  J.  M. 
Fegan,  J.  H.  C. 
Field,  F.  G.  E. 
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Lupton,  J. 
Madden,  A.  C, 
Mainer,  E. 
Mason,  H.  E, 
Maw,  W.  N. 


Mayall,  J. 
Mayor,  H.  H. 
Mond,  A.  M. 
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Neal,  T. 

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Nicholl.  D.  A. 
Nicklin,  T. 
Philpot,  F.  W. 
Powys,  G.  F. 
Price,  J. 
Prior,  E.  H.  T. 
PuUan,  H. 
Radford,  L,  B. 
Ray,  C.  E. 
Reeves,  J.  H. 
Roberts,  A.  S. 
Roberts,  J.  H. 
Robertson,  A.  J. 
Robertson,  C. 
Robinson,  Rev.  J. 


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Schoolcraft,  O.  J. 
Seccombe,  P.  J.  A. 
Shaw,  P.  E. 
Smallpeice,  G. 
Speight,  H. 
Stewart,  R.  P. 
Telford,  J.  A. 
Tetley,  A.  S. 
Tovey,  C.  H. 
Tunstall,  F.  W.  W. 
Turner,  R. 
Turner,  D.  M. 
Waite,  T. 
Waldon,  W. 
Waller,  C.  C. 
W^s,  A.  T. 
Wheeler,  A. 
Whipple,  A.  H. 
Whitaker,  E.  J.  L. 
White,  A.  W. 
White,  C.  W. 
Willcocks,  H.  S. 
•Willson,  St.  J.  B.  W. 
Woodhead,  F.  E. 
Worsley,  S.  H. 
Young,  A.  R. 


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Brooke,  A. 
Brown,  W.  L. 
Bum,  J,  G. 
Burnett,  L.  B. 
Camegy,  F.  W. 
Catling,  H.  D. 
Clark,  W. 
CoUison,  H. 
Cordeaux,  H.  E.  S. 
Corder,  B.  J. 
Cox,  H.  S. 
Craxton,  S.  C. 
Deshpande,  K.  G. 
Dewsbury,  F. 
Drake,  H. 
D'Souza,  F.  H. 
Edwards,  C.  D. 
Elliott,  W.  R. 
EwBANK,  A.  (E.  1894) 
Fraser,  J.  H. 
Garcia^  G.  H.  R. 


Gardiner,  H.  A.  P. 
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Given- Wilson,  F.  G. 
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Goodman,  H,  C. 
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Holmes,  F.  H, 
Hooton,  W.  S. 
Hough,  S.  S. 
Howarth,  C. 
Jackson,  T.  L. 
Kempt,  G.  D. 
Kent,  W.  A. 
Kilburn,  G.  H. 
King,  H.  A. 
Kingsford,  R.  L. 
Lees,  H.  C. 
Legge,  S.  T.  T. 
Le  Sueur,  W.  R. 
Macalister,  R.  A.  S. 
Marshall,  H.  T.  L. 
Morton,  W.  B. 
Newbery,  F.  C. 


Nicholls,  F.  J. 
Nutley,  W. 


Radcliff,  R.  T.  M. 
Raven,  C.  O. 
Reid,  S.  B. 
Rice,  C.  M. 
Rosenberg,  G.  F.  J. 
Sanders,  R.  L. 
Simpson,  £.  L. 
Smith,  A.  E. 
Smith,  F.  M. 
Smith,  G.  H. 
Smith,  P.  G, 
Smith,  R.  T. 
Stone,  W.  A. 
Storey,  E. 
Sturgess,  F.  D, 
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Notes  from  the  College  Records 

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The  College  Pictures  at  the  Tudor  ExhibitioD 

-      152 

Risidefit  EsuriaUs  Ferias         -    .       - 

'.      158 

Sdwyn's  Epigram         -           -           -           .           - 

.      161 

On  the  Broads  in  March           -           .           .           . 

.      163 

Obituary : 

Sir  John  Robert  Townshcnd,  Earl  Sydney,  G.C.B 

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Francis  Herbert  Holmes    .            -           -           - 

.      176 

The  Yen  Archdeacon  Jones 

.      176 

Cambridge  Revisited     -           -           -           .           . 

-      180 

Landes  Temporis  Act!              .           .           .           . 

-      181 

Lyrics     ....... 

-      186 

Correspondence             -           .            -            .           . 

-      188 

Oar  Chronicle    -.-.-. 

-      193 

The  Library       .-..-. 

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THOMAS  ASHE. 


JNYONE  who  is  curious  enough  to  take  down 
from  the  College  Library,  or  from  the  book- 
shelves of  some  antiquated  Johnian,  the  first 
volume  of  the  Eaglcy  will  find  on  page  31  some  simple, 
rough,  very  rough,  translations  of  Death-Songs  by 
Uhland;  the  first  of  which  tells  how  a  little  dying 
child  sees  the  angels — which  the  mother  cannot  see — 

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no  Thomas  Ashe. 

creeping  under  the  window  with  pleasant  songs  to 
carry  its  soul  away  with  them  to  heaven.  Thomas 
Ashe,*  the  singer  of  this  rough  melody,  was  destined 
to  sing  many  a  smoother  song  hereafter  about  little 
children,  many  a  song  about  dreams  and  visions, 
mostly  sad;  destined  to  be  read  indeed  and  loved  by 
a  few,  but  to  be  neglected  by  the  wide  hurrying  world, 
and  to  be  brought  to  a  premature  grave,  in  part  at 
least,  by  the  sense  of  failure;  but  destined  also,  in 
the  opinion  of  the  writer — ^who  did  not  know  him  so 
well  as  to  feel  barred  from  judgment  by  friendship— 
to  find  a  place  in  any  competent  Selections  from  Lyrical 
Poetry  of  the  Nineteenth  Century  that  may  be  made 
in  the  first  half  of  the  Twentieth;  in  any  case 
deserving  of  more  than  a  passing  notice  frx>m  his 
fellow-collegians,  and  especially  in  this  magazine  of 
which  he  was  one  of  the  founders. 

An  autobiographical  interest  attaches  to  most  of 
his  best  poetry.  Not  indeed'  that  all  his  loves  and 
sorrows  and  farewells  and  dreams  are  to  be  accepted 
in  every  detail  as  literal  fact ;  but  so  vivid  are  many  of 
the  pictures  that  the  reader  must  sometimes  feel  that 
this  or  that  scene  is  not  wholly  imaginary,  and  that  he 
may  gain  insight  into  the  poems  by  knowing  something 
of  the  poet.  To  supply  this  knowledge  is  the  object 
of  this  notice;  not  to  criticise  nor  analyse,  and  still 
less  to  assign  the  poet  his  exact  place  in  the  degrees 
of  Parnassus,  but  simply  to  connect  a  few  of  his  best 
poems  by  such  a  thread  of  biographical  record  as  may 
throw  light  upon  them — ^with  this  fiirther  possible 
result  that  spme  Johnians  who,  besides  loving  their 
College  and  its  traditions,  are  also  lovers  of  true 
poetry,  may  say  to  themselves,  "Here  was  a  poet, 
^  true  poet  in  his  way,  whom  we  knew  nothing 
^.bout — and  a  Johnian  too.     Let  us  buy  his  Poems 

•  The  Editors  are  indebted  for  the  portrait  to  the  kindness  of  t)iQ 
proprietors  of  t|ie  IllHstraUd  London  J^cw^, 


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Tkamas  Ashe.  iii 

and  put  them  on  our  bookshelves  beside  those  of  the 
Johnian  Herrick  and  the  Johnian  Wordsworth."* 

Ashe  was  born  in  the  summer  of  1836  at  Stockport, 
near  those  Cheshire  hills  which  are  the  scene  of  his 
longest  poem,  Edith.  His  father,  a  Manchester  manu- 
facturer and  an  amateur  artist  of  considerable  merit, 
became,  in  later  days,  a  clergyman  (prepared  for 
ordination  by  his  own  son)  and  vicar  of  St  Paul's 
Church  in  Crewe.  Of  his  mother  he  tells  us  in  one 
of  his  earliest  poems  {Memory) — in  language  that 
throws  light  on  his  own  sensitive  and  susceptible 
nature,  as  well  as  on  the  soothing  influence  of  her 
"healing  eyes" — ^how  she 

led  the  heart  in  early  days 
To  gentle  thoughts  and  good  and  truth; 
And  soVd  the  doubtful  April  youth 
With  lilies,  up  the  winding  ways. 
And  held  the  cloudy  trouble  off 
That  gathered  with  the  gaining  years; 
And  knew  to  check  the  oozing  tears, 
And  heal  the  wound  of  worldly  scoff. 
From  the  cradle  to  the  gfrave  it  was  always  "  April " 
with   this   poet;    and  in  the    midst  of  the  brightest 
sunshine    and    gladdest   voices    of   spring   there  was 
always  the  "cloudy  trouble"  not  far  ofiF.    In  a  later 
poem  he  thus  describes  his  childhood  {Bettms-y-coed^ 

As  once  I  in  my  cradle  slept, 
A  spirit  lean'd  o'er  me: 
She  was  so  beautiful,  I  wept: 
Her  name  was  Poesy. 

*  An  edition  of  Ashe's  Poems,  complete  in  one  volume,  was  published 
in  1886  by  Bell  and  Sons,  York  Street,  Covent  Garden.  The  only  subsequent 
poems  in  print  are  Songs  of  a  Year^  privately  printed  at  the  Chiswick  Fress^ 
1 888 ;  but  these  also  can  be  obtained  from  Messrs  Bell  and  Sons. 

A  few  pieces  quoted  in  this  notice,  but  not  to  be  found  in  the  1886 
edition,  are  drawn  from  an  edition  printed  in  1871  by  H.  Knights,  Printer, 
Ipswich ;  or  from  an  edition  published  by  Bell  and  Daldy  in  1859 :  the  former 
idll  be  indicated  by  fy  the  latter  by  %, 

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112  Thomas  Ashe. 

A  hand  upon  my  mouth  she  laid : 
Fll  make  you  sorrowful,  she  said; — 
A  promise  which  she  kept. 
Joy  is  but  a  fitful  thing: 
He  must  know  sorrow  who  would  sing. 
And  I  grew  not  as  others  are, — 
With  the  green  woods  familiar. 
By  the  brooks  my  feet 

Roam'd  alone. 

Or  on  a  stone, 

In  the  stream,  Fd  watch  a  star. 

All  the  games  that  I  knew  well 

Were,  to  find  the  pimpernel 

And  the  meadow-sweet. 

Alien  from  the  ways  of  the  world,  when  he  looks 
back,  long  afterwards,  upon  his  infancy  he  is  inclined 
to  call  himself  "a  changeling"  (p.  263)  : 

I  that  was  born  on  a  Midsummer  night 
When  fairies  keep  their  revels,  and  delight 
To  vex  poor  men  with  many  a  wicked  thing; 
Who  left  me,  half  I  think,  a  changeling, 
And  stole  away  the  little  babe  new-born. 
Then  where  am  I  ?  and  shall  I  set,  some  mom. 
My  feet  on  this  green  earth  ?  for  this,  that  seems 
Myself,  would  best  befit  a  land  of  dreams. 

From  the  Grammar  School  of  Stockport  coming  to 
St  John's  as  a  sizar  in  1855  he  was  entered  on 
Mr  France's  side,  and  had  rooms  on  the  east  side 
of  the  Second  Court.  He  read  mathematics  and  took  " 
his  degree  as  Senior  Optima  in  1859.  But  literature 
and  poetry  had  long  taken  possession  of  his  mind, 
and  in  Three-Years^  (1859-60)  he  looks  back  with 
passionate  regret  upon  the  gain  that  might  have  been, 
if  he  could  have  devoted  himself  to  different  studies : 

O  priceless  pearls,  given  to  me  to  keep! 
Rich  gems  of  time,  bewail'd  with  idle  tears  I 
O'er  you  the  impenetrable  wild  waves  sweep, 
O  lost,  O  coveted,  mispriz'd  three  years  1 


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Gain,  wisdom,  treasure,— all  the  untouch'd  store, 
That  should  have  given  rich  guerdon,  where,  O  where  ? 
Beauty,  and  bliss,  and  knowledge  are  no  more, 
And  ripening  promise  of  true  things  and  fair  I 
Lost,  lost  to  me!  Time's  brackish  waves  roll  on; 
And  hide  my  pearls,  and  will  not  backward  flow: 
With  scornful  dirges  for  the  dear  years  gone. 
They  mock  my  weeping,  hastening  as  they  go: 
And  I  shall  never,  never  more  regain 
My  rich  lost  treasure  from  the  moaning  main. 
Shakesperiana — a  sonnet  tinged  with  the  sadness  of 
£urewells  to  his  old  companions— describes  how,  in  an 
oasis  amid  the  mathematical  desert,  he  and  four  other 
friends*  sought  "to  feed  the  freshness  of  their  youth" 
l)y  the  study  of  Shakespeare : 

O  gifted  soul,  greatest  and  mightiest. 
How  have  thy  words  fed  us  with  nourishment! 
How  did  they  make  the  dreary  days  grow  blest  I 
Ah,  happy  days,  how  quickly  are  they  spent! 
Time  hath  come  on  us  like  a  woodman  rude; 
And  sever'd  is  our  pleasant  brotherhood. 
In  1858  appeared  his  first  poetical  venture,  or  rather 
joint-venture,   Poems   by   Undergraduates^  a  little  col- 
lection of  fifty  pages,  printed  by  him  and  his  friend 
J.    H.    Clark,    whose    death    was    chronicled    in    the 
Michaelmas  Term  Eagle  of  1888.    Two  of  these  poems 
Undertone  and  In  Memoriam  find  a  place  in  the  com- 
plete edition  of  his  works. 

Not  being  old  enough  to  be  ordained,  he  taught  at 
Peterborough,  living  in  the  Minster  Close  while  pre- 
paring for  ordination.    Hence  issued  his  first  volume 
of  poems  in  1859.    Amid  songs  of  the  Churchyard  and 
the  Cuckoo,  Ettie  the  dream-child  (p.  9)  shews  the  poet 
already  in  one  of  his  favourite  fields : 
Gentle  Ettie,  pet!  she  looks 
Like  some  child  in  fairy  books. 
In  her  eyes,  that  seem  to  fix 
On  the  airy  void  around, 

*  Mullins,  Adams,  Bush,  Wilson :  see  Eagle  xv.  325. 


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114  Thomas  Ashe. 

Motions  of  the  playful  wind. 
Light  and  shadow  melt  and  mix 

With  each  other,  undefined. 
Hid  from  us,  what  has  she  found, 

In  dreamy  fancies  of  her  mind  ? 
Ettie  is  some  changeling  sweet. 
That  walks  this  earth  with  elfin  feet. 
Oft  she  seems  to  look  and  ask 
Elves  their  secrets  to  unmask. 
She  is  watching,  as  she  stands^ 
Wonders  wrought  in  fairy  lands. 
Elfin  phantoms  flit  and  fleet. 
Making  signs  with  shadowy  hands. 

But  the  "cloudy  trouble"  had  been  gathering 
strength.  It  is  scarcely  a  good  sign  when — even  in 
a  "Questionist"  looking  forward  to  the  end  of  his 
Cambridge  life — a  row  back  from  Ely  to  Cambridge, 
described  in  Taking  Heart  (p.  6i ;  see  also  Eagle  i.  93) 
suggests  thoughts  of— 

So  many  dreams,  we  cherished  once, 

And  wove  into  a  strange  romance 
Of  beauty,  and  of  fairy-lands, 

And  love  and  dalliance; 
So  many  plans  in  hope  begun. 

By  us  who  saw  the  end  too  well; 
No  marvel,  if  a  mournful  gloom 

Across  our  spirits  fell. 
How  many  white  hands,  beckoning 

Afar  off,  seem'd  to  call  us  back  I 
How  many  clouds  lay  gathering  grim 

About  the  onward  track. 

In  1 86 1  appeared  Dryope  and  other  Poems^  which 
shew  a  gfreat  advance  in  power  and  finish  of  style. 
Grood  critics  have  condemned  with  faint  praise  the 
poet's  blank  verse,  while  setting  him  by  the  side  of 
Herrick  for  his  lyrical  poetry.  Our  readers  shall  judge 
for  themselves  from  the  passage  (p.  35)  which  tells 
how  the  Hamadryads,  finding  by  chance  asleep  "Sweet 
Dryope,  bright  little  Dryope,"  trained  her  as  one  of 


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themselves,  void  of  human  instincts : 

They  taught  her  secrets  of  the  murmaring  boughs : 
They  fill'd  her  with  the  music  of  the  streams : 
They  trained  her  to  a  subtle  inward  sense 
Of  beauty:  and  when  deeper  thoughts  began 
To  stir,  they  made  her  love  all  living  things. 

»  ♦  » 

But  by  and  by  the  sweet  humanity. 
This  long  time  crushed  and  buried,  but  not  dead. 

Grew  into  strength  and  sadden'd  the  lone  child. 
•  •  « 

She  pined  for  love,  and  knew  not  why  she  pined. 

As  when  a  little  haze  appears  above 

Brook  in  some  vale,  and  slowly  forms  and  grows; 

And  fills  the  sunlit  hollows  by  degrees 

With  living  volumes  of  the  golden  mist ; 

So  love's  vague,  yearnings  were  her  soul's  despair. 

She  watched  all  mom  the  rainbow  fishes  skim* 

And  chase  each  other  in  the  gleaming  reeds. 

She  peered  into  the  leafy  nests  of  birds, 

And  wonder'd  what  could  make  them  twit  and  sing* 

And  she  would  lie  and  finger  at  the  grass; 

And  sicken  with  the  cooing  of  the  doves ; 

And  strangely  love  to  play  with  the  sunbeams: 

And  as  she  did,  she  knew  not  in  her  mind 

Bright-rlock'd  Apollo  fretted  for  his  prize. 

In  the  earlier  poems  there  are  hints  of  a  gfrowing 
love— at  present  as  between  brother  and   sister— for 
some  companion  of  his  childhood ;   but  there  is  little 
sadness  in  them.    Now  in  the  following  poem  {Bitter- 
ness\)  the  predestined  singer  of  Lost  Eros  strikes  for 
the  first  time  one  of  his  saddest  chords : 
We  sat  among  the  ripe  wheat-sheaves 
The  western  skies  were  golden-red. 
We  had  a  book:  we  tum'd  the  leaves; 
But  not  a  word  we  said. 

A  sudden  lull:  a  thrilling  pause:— 
We  seem'd  at  once  one  thought  to  have. 

We  little  could  divine  the  cause 
That  such  a  moment  gave. 


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ii6  Thotnas  Ashe. 

A  minute,  which  comes  once,  and  goes: 
Which  must  be  snatched  at  once,  or  lost. 

O  foolish  heart! — what  mad  doubt  rose 
In  me? — our  fate  was  cross'd. 

We  wander'd  from  the  shining  sheaf, 

We  look'd  back  at  the  setting  sun. 
Heart-sick, — we  feign'd  'twas  but  for  grief 

The  golden  day  was  dqne — 

And  on  the  morrow  I  was  gone, 

Who  could  not  speak  for  paltry  fear. 
The  morrows  will  ^o  gliding  on, 
And  we  find  each  a  bitter  one^ 

Nor  meet  for  many  a  year. 

This  sadness  combines  with  a  growing"  conscioasnesa 
of  hesitation,  a  sense  of  the  indefiniteness  of  the  subject 
of  his  song,  and  a  foreboding  of  a  fruitless  struggle 
after  the  unreachable.  Something  of  thesQ  feeUnga 
is  expressed  in  Glimmerings  (p.  17): 

Shudder  of  something  in  the  days  that  are } 

Possible  music  in  sweet  notes  that  jar: 

Flutter  of  something  in  the  past,  which  made 

A  light  of  white  across  the  flickering  shade : 

Visible  glimpses  of  old  robes  again : 

Old  sounds,  confused  with  distance  and  with  pain; 

I  ask  my  heart,  what  keeps  it  still 

Saying  "I  will  not,"  and  *'I  will." 

As  if  love  might  have  been,  and  has  not  been : 
As  if  love  yet,  though  faint,  in  hope  were  seen : 
A  glimmering  light,  far  down  a  lonely  shore. 
To  follow  and  find,  ere  it  be  seen  no  more: 
To  follow,  follow  and  find,  o'er  weed-spread  saiid,^ 
Before  the  tide  comes  up  along  the  land: — 

I  ask  my  heart,  what  keeps  it  still 

Saying  "I  will  not,"  and  "I  will." 

The  titles  oiAteleuty  TheAhsoluUy  and  The  Unreached 
sufficiently  proclaim  their  subjects.    Ateleut  (pp.  62—8) 
tells  how  a  youth,  cheated  by  a  divine  voice  and  vision 
and  a  draught  of  mystic  water  from  the  unseen  Nymph 


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into  the  belief  that  he  was  a  king  over  men  and  master 
of  the  secrets  of  the  universe,  and  received  by  the 
populace  with  acclaims — finds  that  he  cannot  draw  the 
mag^c  sword  which  should  establish  his  claim,  and  flees 
back  into  the  desert,  discrowned,  to  meet  the  mockery 
of  the  spirits  that  had  deceived  him>  after  hearing  his 
doom  from  the  old  priest : 

Oar  king  waits  till  his  hour  is  come: 
But  thy  fair  throne  was  bat  a  wild  desire. 

Since  Easter  i860,  Ashe  had  been  curate  of  Silver- 
stone  in  Northamptonshire,  where  he  was  much  loved 
and  long  remembered  by  his  parishioners,  one  of 
whom,  nearly  thirty  years  afterwards,  did  not  forget  to 
send  flowers  for  his  grave.  It  is  thence  that  he 
sends  an  Invitation  (p.  61)  in  which,  after  a  delightftil 
description  of  the  pleasures  with  which  they  .would 
beguile  the  winter's  evenings,  he  sets  on  the  other  side 
the  discomforts  of  the  winter's  day,  and  so  finally  bids 
his  old  friend  put  off  his  visit  till  "  the  thrushes  come" : 

Miry  roads,  and  sop  of  rains. 

In  the  wood-walks  o'er  the  plains: 

Fallow  fields  and  marky  floods; 

Dripping  of  the  dreary  woods ; 

Driving  sleet,  or  chilly  ring 

Of  white  hail : — friend,  come  in  Spring* 

Then  the  budding  daffodils 
Fill  the  spaces  of  the  hills 
Then  the  wood  anemones 
Ripple  in  the  nursing  breeze 
Blae-bells  in  the  hollows  crowd 
Like  the  blue  gap  in  the  cloud. 
Cushats  coo.    Gay  woodpeckers 
Fret  the  bark.    The  linnet  stirs 
In  the  copses.    Sparrows  cheep. 
Skies  are  sunny,  storms  asleep. 
Winter  days  are  dull  and  dumb: 
Friend,  come  when  the  thmshes  come. 
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ii8  Thomas  Ashe. 

But  he  did  not  long  remain  at  Silverstone.  "He 
was  much  liked  in  the  parish,"  writes  one  of  his  old 
pupils,  "and  would,  no  doubt,  have  passed  a  useful 
and  much  happier  life  if  he  felt  that  he  could  have 
remained  a  clergyman.  But  he  felt  that  he  could  not, 
and  gave  up  his  curacy ;  and  after  a  time  he  dropped 
the  Reverend  from  his  name  and  ceased  to  wear  the 
clerical  dress."  Hidden  Thoughts  (which  must  have 
been  written  about  January  1863,  when  he  gave  up  his 
parish)  describes  his  farewell  to  his  "simple  village 
hinds,  the  honest  hearts,  the  unletter'd  minds,"  and 
tells  how  "  shaking  rudely  oflF"  the  feeling  of  "  creeping 
domesticity,"  and  "setting  clinging  love  awhile  at 
distance  "  he  is  resolved  to 

give  honest  duty  needful  scope 

And  face  the  fiend  in  fear  and  hope. 
•  •  «  • 

In  any  case  God  uses  me 

To  make  up  His  humanity. 

Ah,  what  for  me  the  end  of  all  ? 

And  what  the  solemn  funeral? 

And  when  the  pulse  has  ceased  to  beat 

In  this  dust  with  wonted  heat, 

What  the  final  dtrige 

Chanted  at  the  last  for  me  ? 

Let  me  keep  unspotted,  white, 

The  inner  sense  of  just  and  right; 

Let  me  keep  unfetter'd  still 

The  freedom  of  one  human  will; 

Let  me  sing, — not  ill, — and  stir 

Thoughts  that  make  men  holier; 

Let  me  stamp  the  beautiful 

On  some  fancy  that  is  dull; 

Let  me  quicken  charity 

In  the  souls  that  let  it  die; 

Then  'neath  any  nameless  mound 

Lie  forgotten  underground. 

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written  about  the  same  time  Cp-  46) : 

Look  at  me  not :  let  your  faint  sighs 

Hide  what  I  do  not  ask  to  know. 
Look  at  me  not  with  your  sweet  eyes^ 

That  used  to  move  and  role  me  so. 
Long,  long  ago! 
Look  at  me  not;  lest  I  should  pine 

To  think  upon  my  altered  fate. 
Purse  up  those  ruddy  Ups  of  thine, 

That  would  not  once  bid  hope  or  waitt 
Too  late!  too  late! 
O  when,  long  since, — but  leave  me;  got 

Draw  not  unworthy  words  between 
These  traitor  lips  of  mine.    Love,  no : 

One  waits  me:  it  shall  not  be  seen 
What  might  have  been! 

The  Unreached  (p.  46)  shall  be  the  last  extract  from 
the  poems  of  this  period : 

Is  it  anything?    Is  it 
Only  fancy's  fever-fit? 
That  I  see  it  moving  through 
Gloomy  vistas  of  my  mind  ? 
Is  it  something  I  could  do  ? 
Is  it  something  I  would  find? 
But  I  long  for  it,  I  long  for  it, 
And  still  it  seems  unkind. 

b  it  love  for  which  I  wait 
At  my  airy  wishing-gate  ? 
Is  it  sweetness,  which  I  long 

To  entrap  with  lyric  sound? 
Is  it  music  ?  is  it  song  ? 
Is  it  ease  I  have  not  found? 
But  my  brain  with  it,  my  brain  with  it,. 
Is  swimming  round  and  round. 

Is  it  truth  I  fail  to  see; 
That  is  beautiful  to  be,-— 
As  I  image  in  my  dream, — 
The  unreach'd  for  which  I  pine? 


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Does  it  live?    Does  it  but  seem? 
Is  it  human  ?  or  divine  ? 
That  I  feed  on  it,  I  feed  on  it, 
In  this  dull  heart  of  mine  ? 

Is  it  precious?    Is  it  worth 

All  the  riches  of  the  earth  ? 

Is  it  cruel?    Is  it  kind? 

Is  it  phantom  of  the  brain  ? 
Is  it  balance  of  the  mind, 
That  I  cannot  more  regain? 
But  I  long  for  it,  I  long  for  it. 
Ever  day  and  night  with  pain. 

On  leaving  Silverstone,  he  resumed  the  work  of  a 
sohoolmastery  and,  after  a  short  stay  at  Ealing,  he 
became  mathematical  and  modem  form-master^  first 
at  Leamington  College  for  about  two  years,  and  then  at 
Queen  Elizabeth's  School  in  Ipswich  for  eight.  In 
the  period  just  preceding  his  resumption  of  school-work 
came  Fasciculus^  containing  some  of  the  poet's  saddest 
utterances,  most  of  them  apparently  connected  with  the 
death  of  one  much-loved  (pp.  93,  94,  95): 

^11. 

Listen!  I  hear  it — no  I  she  died. 

She  is  not  sitting  by  my  side. 

I  lie  and  muse  till  dreams  efface 

The  consciousness  of  time  and  space : 

And  then  the  rustle  of  the  wind 

Brings  her  sweet  treble  to  my  mind: — 

Words,  once,  like  low-breathed  prayers,  whose  tone 

Was  prayer  and  answer  both  in  one: 

Words,  now,  like  farewells,  wafted  o'er 

The  waves  to  a  receding  shore. 


As  hapless  bird,  whose  eggs  are  cold. 
Broods  on  her  nest  in  vain; 

And  round  her  lifeless  hope  will  fold 
Her  drooping  wings  again. 


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Andy  conscious  of  her  loss,  essays 

Her  life's  life  to  restore; 
Yet  has  no  heart  to  tune  the  lays 

That  comfort  her  no  more: 
So  ly  that  in  an  earlier  time 

Sang  cheerfully  at  mom. 
And  sang  at  evening,  hush  my  rhyme 

For  hopes  that  died  scarce-born. 

zxiv. 

What  is  life,  if  love  be  dead, 

But  a  rose  whose  scent  is  gone? 
But  a  tree  whose  leaves  are  shed. 
Which, — so  blasted,  withered, — 

Scarce  lives  on? 
Nature  cannot  .at  her  will 

Touch  us  into  tune  with  her. 
She  is  vain,  if  love's  look  still 
Meet  not  ours  on  lake  or  hill. 

Nought  is  fair. 
Love  is  it  which  makes  the  rose 

Of  the  morning  beautiful; 
Love  is  it  at  evening's  close. 
Lights  the  star-lamps.    If  love  goes, 
Fades  the  whole. 

Yet  along  with  these  sad  tones  are  mingled  others 
as  various  as  the  moods  of  April ;  thoughts  that  come 
"'mid  wind-flowers,  'neath  the  new-leav'd.  elms"; 
thoughts  of  the  "  mystic  wreath  "  of  the  Muses,  which, 
to  him,  is  "  more  than  woman's  love,  or  flattery  of  the 
world";  and,  among  thoughts  of  Spring  and  Hope, 
there  comes — making  the  heart  of  the  poet  "flutter 
like  a  bird" — the  picture  of  Elfin  Kattie  riding  past 
him  (p.  76) : 

Golden  hair,  of  sunbeams  made, 
Floating  loose  without  a  braid; 
Little  scarlet  jacket  gay, 
Like  the  lady-birds  in  May; 


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Little  habit,  trim  and  neat. 
Falling  over  tiny  feet; 
Little  bridle,  in  small  hand, 
Kattie  rode  from  £lfin-land. 
Little  Kattie  is  but  seven, 
£lfin-land,  it  may  be  heaven. 

Pictures  of  Psyche  (1864)  paints  the  old  familiar 
myth  in  a  modern  frame  scarcely  worthy  of  the  picture. 
The  Sorrows  of  Hypstpyle^  written  (1866)  in  imitation 
of  a  Greek  drama^  has  been  more  favourably  and  widely 
noticed  than  any  of  his  works;  but  it  has  not  the 
distinctive  note  of  the  poet.  Ediths  on  the  other  hand 
(1869-70),  though  perhaps  in  parts  too  detailed,  yet, 
independently  of  the  pathetic  beauty  of  the  story  (which 
there  is  not  space  to  give  here)  deserves  attention 
for  the  originality  of  its  trochaic  hexameter — an 
audacious  experiment  which  appears  to  the  writer  to 
prove  that,  if  English  hexameters  are  to  be  written  at 
all,  some  admixture  of  the  trochee  is  an  improvement 
whenever  the  subject  is  quiet  idyllic  narrative.  The 
story  should  be  read  as  a  whole  by  one  who  would 
do  justice  to  the  poet's  skill  in  leading  us  first  into 
tolerance  of  his  new  metre,  and  then  into  a  charmed 
acquiescence  in  its  fitness:  but  we  will  risk  the 
following  description  of  The  little  house  of  the  curate 
(p.  165),  in  which  a  great  deal  of  metrical  art  is 
concealed  beneath  an  easy-flowing  simplicity: 

It  is  quaint,  old-fashion'd :  the  roof  is  low ;  and  the  swallows 
Now  are  hard  at  work,  beneath  the  eaves,  by  the  windows ; 
Windows,  old,  once  latticed,  deep  in  gloom  of  the  ivy. 
Framed  in  square-cut  stones,  the  sombre  stone  of  the  quarries. 
Half,  the  benches  fill  the  rustic  porch,  and  about  it 
Shine  the  green  new  leaves  the  roses  hide  in  the  summer. 
Mark  the  tiny  lawn,  all  in  a  flame  with  the  crocus : — 
Four  trim  little  beds,  with  box  edged  round ;  and  the  hollies, 
Carved  to  shapes  fantastic,  in  defiance  of  nature, 
Quaint  as  antique  prints  made  of  the  Garden  of  Eden. 
Broad  and  flagged,  the  path  between  the  door  and  the  gateway, 
Fring'd  with  London-pride,  and  white  and  red  of  the  daisies* 


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Early  in  the  series  of  Songs  Now  and  Then  (mostly 
1866-1870*)  comes  one  which  may  explain  many  of 
the  past  and  future  poems.  Almost  in  his  first  page, 
{UnderUmey  p.  2)  he  has  told  us  how  the  woodland 
bird  recalled  "the  memory  sweetly  sad,  of  a  lost 
maid  true  as  gold,"  mentioned  in  many  of  the  poems 
of  the  volume  of  1859  {ChildhoodX^  The  dead  NellyX^ 
WeaknessiXy  LullahyX^  and  Yule-tideX)*  In  particular, 
A  Look  Backt  describes — 

long  auburn  tresses; 
Low  dropping  words  of  music  from  sweet  lips ; 
And  most  sweet  eyes;  and  fancy-feigned  caresses 
Of  silent  looks. 

But  though  there  had  been  love  between  them,  it 
had  been  the  love  of  "silent  looks."  A  change 
had  come  over  the  little  girl  with  whom  he  "pluck'd 
the  wind-flower  in  the  wood  "  and  "  shouted  up  to  the 
squirrel"  {ChildhoodXy. 

We  hunted  the  meadow-crake, 

Breezes  about  us  blowing; 

And  cover'd  each  other  with  grass 

Merrily  in  the  mowing. 

«  «  « 

And  thus,  in  our  early  prime 

Lived  we  on  together; 
Dreaming  not  of  the  blight 

That  comes  with  winter  weather. 

She  who  had  been  the  frolicsome  playmate  of  his 
childhood  had  now  grown  up  till  "Laura  she  was  to 
me  and  Beatrice."  Had  it  not  been  for  these  inter- 
vening "dreamy  idealities,"     ' 

Should  I  not  have  said 
"I  love  thee";  so  she  might  have  breath'd  it  too, 
Perchance  ? 


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except  the  last  fifteen  are  printed  in  the  Edition  of  1871  and  are  there  dated 
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But  love  had  not  been  "said."  She  died  in  the 
Christmas  of  1854  in  her  seventeenth  year;  and  now, 
neariy  as  many  years  afterwards  ("years  long  as  her 
brief  life  ")  he  revisits  My  Cousiris  Grave  (p.  199) : 

Ah,  gentle  spirit!  which  should  have  sta/d  to  save 
My  soul  from  withering  in  this  world's  dull  strife  I 

Ah,  nestling  little  brood,  'twere  sweet  to  have 

Half  mine,  half  hers,  which  should  have  been  my  wife  I 

Another   poem,    After   Long  Years  (p.   199),   also 
exhibits  the  shy    retiring   poet  in  his  characteristic 
,  attitude  of  waiting : 

I  lov'd  a  woman  once:  she  was  not  fair; 
But  simple,  loveable  and  good. 
I  think  she  loved  me  too:  but  we 
Swaddled  our  love  in  secrecy; 
And  ne'er  used  lip  or  speech  to  bring  more  near 
The  end  which  each  heart  would. 

A  tender  eyelash  lifted  thoughtfully. 
Or  with  uneasy  haste  let  fall; 
A  smothered  trembling  in  a  touch 
At  greeting  which  scarce  ask'd  so  much : 
A  painful  silence,  or  a  painless  sigh, 
Light  as  spring  airs, — were  all. 

I/>ve's  bud  was  ripe  to  burst  into  a  flower, 
With  least  unguarded  touch  of  fate. 

Who  sows  fair  joy,  to  reap  in  tears? 

We  were  wise-headed  for  our  years: 
And  too  shrewd  reckoning  robb'd  love  of  its  dower. 

And  foresight  would  bid  wait. 

But  still  the  unteachable  procrastinator,  the  obstinate 
lover  of  April,  who  shrinks  from  summer  because  it 
will  bring  autumn,  has  not  yet  learned  by  experience 
{Dallyingy  p.  217): 

Dear  love,  I  have  not  ask'd  you  yet; 

Nor  heard  you— murmuring  low 
As  wood-dove  by  a  rivulet — 

Say  if  it  shall  be  so. 


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Oft  yon  sit  'mid  the  daisies  here 

And  I  lie  at  yonr  feet; 
Yet  day  by  day  goes  by: — I  fear 

To  break  a  trance  so  sweet. 

As  some  first  autumn  tint  looks  strange^ 

And  wakes  a  strange  regret, 
Would  your  soft  "yes"  our  loving  change? 

Love,  I'll  not  ask  you  yet. 

Yet  the  conclusion  of  the  series  marks  a  bitterer 
penitence  for  having  scared  away  Eros — Lost  EroSy 
who  will  now  no  more  return  (p.  222): 

Now  gleams  his  face  in  dreams:  I  pass 
Along  the  wither'd  dewless  grass. 

And  in  vain  I  sigh, 
To  find  him,  touch  him,  cling  to  him. 
To  kiss  him  till  my  eyes  grow  dim; 

To  plasp  him  till  I  die. 

Lavis  Regret  (p.  219)  is  one  of  many  similar 
expressions : 

There  is  no  trouble  in  the  world 

Like  this,  to  feel  forlorn; 
The  children  of  sweet  fancy  dead, 

The  bridal  brood  unborn. 

«  «  •  « 

Come,  sit  beneath  these  cypresses. 

And  pluck  a  bunch  of  rue: 
Let  fall  a  heavier,  bitterer  tear 

Than  other  mourners  do. 

They  weep  for  those  their  hands  held  fast 

A  brief  while,  ere  they  died ; 
But  we,  the  unborn  loved  ones,  placed, 

By  love's  hands,  side  by  side. 

But  there  is  no  monotone  of  sadness  in  these  songs. 
There  are  pleasant  vacation  reminiscences  of  Boppard 
and  the  Rhine,  welcomes  to  old  friends,  pictures  of  old- 
fashioned  Christmas;  and  the  never-absent  children 
are  represented  by  Little  Annette  (p.  215)  1 

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Annette  slips  laughing  from  my  knee 

And  casts  a  sidelong  look  at  me 

Because  she  hears  the  clock  strike  eight*  ' 

I  set  the  sunny  ringlets  straight, 

I  give  the  tiny  lips  a  kiss: 

But  still  she  dallies*    She  must  have 

Just  one  kiss  more,  though  I  look  grave, 

"You  will  come  in  the  morning?" — "Yes: 

Run  oflF  to  bed."     She  lingers  yet : 

"You  will  be  sure  to  not  forget?" 

"O  no:  good  night!" — But  still  she  stays, 

And  trifles  with  a  kitten's  grace: 

And  she  so  young,  and  I  so  old, 

I  must  look  cross,  and  try  to  scold: 

"  Not  gone :  be  oflf  at  once,  before 

Mamma  comes  I    Never  mind  the  door." 

3he  goes :  peeps  in :  slips  off  afraid. 

Because  I  will  not  lift  my  head, 

Whose  heart  grows  heavy,  unawares, 

To  hear  the  small  feet  trip  upstairs! 

The  last  poem,  Afterthought  (p.  233),  in  the  Songi 
Now  and  Then  shews  that  there  is  a  connexion  between 
this  love  of  little  children  and  the  growing  love  of 
solitude.  He  is  at  his  ease  with  the  little  ones  because 
he  understands  and  loves  them,  and  they  him;  and 
their  presence  reproaches  him  with  no  sense  of  failure : 

What  can  I  do,  now  the  woods  are  gay 

With  flowers,  and  the  leaves  are  green? 
With  heart  too  heavy  wander  away 

In  the  copses,  not  to  be  seen; 
With  a  heart  too  sad,  that  I  have  no  love. 

To  prattle  of  all  things  sweet. 
And  to  laugh  with  me  for  the  blue  above. 

And  the  daisies  under  our  feet. 

Yet  with  the  delicately  pure  and  tremulously 
passionate  love  of  the  childlike  nature  there  is  combined, 
or  there  intrudes  sometimes,  the  old  longing  for  the 
helpful  companionship  of  a  loving  woman ;  and  this 
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in  the  interesting  Songs  of  Marti  (1869-70),  a  song  of 
dreams  and  dream-loves,  yet  not  wholly  dreams, 
clustering  around  a  perfectly  living  and  visible  figure. 
In  the  edition  of  1871  the  title  was  supplemented  by 
the  transparent  poetical  veil  From  the  Finntshy  dropped 
in  the  edition  of  1886.  The  Songs  of  Fair  Women 
(Plectrude,  Hildegarde,  and  Yseult  of  Brittany)  (1871) 
declare  their  subjects  by  their  title.  At  Altenahr 
(187a)  represents  the  thoughts  of  a  wanderer  who 
carries  his  home-love  for  Pansie  along  the  banks  of  the 
Ahr,  and  into  every  scene  of  his  foreign  travels 
(pp.  255-259): 

In  this  fair  sunny  August  weather, 
By  many  a  rambling  brook  and  dell, 

O  love,  we  two  have  beed  together 
To  find  the  winding  blue  Moselle. 

And,  this  time,  the  poet  dreams  that  there  shall  be 
no  more  procrastination  (p.  256): 

You'll  kiss  me  when  you're  older? 

Nay  kiss  me  now  or  never: 

For  fate  us  two  may  sever, 
Or  love  itself  grow  colder. 

And  what  is  it  you  fancy 

Will  fill  the  years  unshapen  ? 

And  what  is  it  will  happen 
In  the  unborn  days,  Pansie? 

Before  the  summer  closes, 

And  long  ere  snows  drift  hither. 

Bethink  you  how  they  wither. 
The  lovely  spring-time  roses. 

My  little  love,  what  say  you  ? 

Next  summer  will  you  miss  me  ? 

Next  summer  will  you  kiss  me? 
Nay  kiss  me  now,  I  pray  you. 

But  in  the  midst  of  the  sweetest,  comes  also  .the 
saddest,  of  dreams  (p.  255) :  : 


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Lest  us  a  hid  fate  sever, 

To  weep  for  many  a  day, 
Lest  we  should  grieve  for  ever. 

Love  me  not  much,  I  pray. 

For  will  the  dim  days  fashion 

The  bliss  of  wedding-bells? 
My  heart  to  our  sweet  passion 

No  happy  end  foretells. 

And  so  AUenahr  draws  towards  its  last  words : 

Ah  me,  how  sullen  are  the  skies 
About  us,  and  the  graves  how  deep. 

As  love  we  crave  with  weeping  eyes, 
Or  eyes  too  heavy  grown  to  weep. 

As  Days  Go  By  (1874)  brings  the  shadow  of  age  and 
a  deepening  suspicion  of  an  undue  sacrifice  of  the 
realities  to  the  dreams  of  love  {Lethe^  p.  262): 

On  this  green  bank  a  happy  man  I  lie 
And  watch  o'erhead  the  breezy  clouds  go  by: 
And  wraiths  of  days  that  will  bring  good  or  ill. 
And  wraiths  of  dead  days,  hovering  nigh  me  still. 
Bid  weep  and  hope;  and  all  their  word  but  seems 
Only  a  sweet-set  sorrow,  sung  in  dreams; 
While  I,  I  chant  of  love  and  all  love's  bliss; 
But  love's  ripe  lips  ne'er  bent  my  lips  to  kiss. 

The  poet  of  Lost  Eros  appeals,  half  humorously,  to 
The  Maids  who  will  marry  (p.  261) : 

Why,  one  by  one,  thus  will  you  launch  away 

On  that  strange  sea  whose  strand's  a  wedding-day? 

Now  too  a  darkening  sense  of  failure  and  uselessness 
expresses  itself,  not  as  before  in  stray  hints  or  dim 
forebodings,  but  in  direct  self-accusations:  his  song^ 
are  merely  gay  us^ess  Poppies  (p.  261): 

Along  the  hill-top  as  I  walk'd  to  night, 
The  setting  sun  lit  with  his  golden  light 
The  gay  red  useless  poppies  in  the  grass: 
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This  is  my  singing!"    And  it  seemed  again. 

As  many  a  time,  forgotten;   unto  men, 

But  little  use  or  help,  for  all  my  pain. 

Yea  should  men  pluck  these  weeds  of  mine,  what  gain  ? 

Why  should  men  love,  why  should  they  gainful  deem 

My  opiate  sweet,  to  make  them  sleep  or  dream  ? 

And  so  ends  the  series  with  an  Apologia  (p.  264) : 

No  rest  save  singing,  but  a  song  for  friend 
Have  I,  and  sing,  forgotten  to  the  end. 
O  World,  for  me  ne'er  care  to  weave  a  crown, 
Who  hold  your  smile  as  lightly  as  your  frown! 
Yet  I  grow  sad  to  think  upon  my  songs. 
For  which  no  man,  nor  even  a  maiden,  longs. 

0  my  poor  flowers,  dead  in  the  lap  of  spring  f 

1  think  it  is  too  sad  a  harvesting 

For  such  brave  hopes,  for  such  kind  husbandry, 
Yet  I  must  still  go  singing  till  I  die. 

In  1875  he  gave  up  schoolmastering  and  Ipswich. 
Certainly  he  had  not  failed  as  a  teacher.  Dr  St  John 
Parry  the  Headmaster  of  Leamington  College,  in  a 
letter  to  Dr  Holden  the  Headmaster  of  Ipswich  School, 
speaks  in  the  highest  terms  of  the  manner  in  which  he 
interested  his  pupils  and  regrets  him  "more  than  any 
master  he  ever  had,"  and  pupil-testimony  from  Ipswich 
bears  witness  to  the  literary  impress  which  Ashe  left 
upon  his  pupils  there.  But,  he  used  to  say,  he  "was 
not  strong  enough  for  the  work.''  Perhaps  the  truth 
was,  partly  that  he  no  longer  felt  the  freshness  needful 
for  the  work,  and,  still  more,  that  in  his  growing  love 
of  solitude  he  longed  to  "  wander  away  not  to  be  seen." 
After  leaving  Ipswich,  he  lived  for  about  two  years 
in  the  student  quarter  in  Paris.  Hence  issued  the 
series  of  poems  (1876-7)  called  UOutremer.  It  contains 
some  graceful  and  interesting  or  pathetic  recollections 
of  his  French  sojourn,  such  as  Gargikssey  By  the 
Salp^trtlrey  and  Two  Old  Folks  at  Parts ;  but  the  gaiety 
of  Paris  still  leaves  the  poet  most  in  his  element  wHeiu 
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with  Sorrow,  sooner  than  have  neither,  he  will  have 
The  Two  (p.  267): 

I  dwell  with  love  and  sorrow : 
Our  tears  are  slowly  falling. 
In  warm  or  chilly  weather, 
We  sit,  hands  link'd  together. 

And  cannot  hear  hope  calling, 
Nor  trust,  for  tears,  the  morrow. 

I've  grown  too  bitter-hearted 
Since  these  two  friends  came  hither! 

O  love,  why  did  you  bring  her? 

Her  gone,  could  you  not  linger? 
But  if  you  must  go  with  her, 

We  three  will  ne'er  be  parted. 
After  two  years  in  Paris  he  returned  to  England, 
and  spent  some  months  in  Wales.  In  Bettms-y-coed 
(1879)  there  are  signs  of  something  like  a  Wordsworthian 
peace*  He  is  at  home  again  amidst  Nature,  but  above 
all  amid  the  promise  of  Spring  (p.  274) : 

O  apple-bloom,  O  apple-bloom, 

A-dreaming  of  the  fruit  to  come, 

And  of  the  meny  times  1 

The  blue  smoke  rising  'mid  the  trees 

Tells  of  the  peace  within ; 

Of  little  children  round  the  knees 

Of  sire  and  sheltering  kin. 

The  speedwell  by  the  primrose  yearns. 

The  wind-flower  dallies  with  the  ferns, 

The  hyacinth's  a-nod : 

The  orchis  its  proud  purple  dons; 

The  stichworts  and  the  campions 

Smile  in  the  praise  of  God. 
Dolgelly,    Cader,    and  the    Mawddach   have  their 
praises  sung  in  Songs  Here  and  There  (1880),  but  the 
poet^s  heart  has  knit  a  special  bond  with  the  <Uone 
wild  lake,"  Llyn  Tegid  (p.  282),  where 

^scarce  foot  comes  *twixt-mom  and  eve, 
^-  •  Or  none  'twixt  eve  and  hazy  mom, 

'V\\:  And  one  lost  swallow  dips  forlorn. 

And  one  thrush  chants,  as  if  by  leave. 


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By  it  time  dreams  itself  away, 

O'er  it  the.  stars  hang  hush'd  at  night; 
And  every  change  of  gloom  and  light 

Will  pass  across  it  in  a  day. 

In  a  calmer  spirit  he  sees  the  rising  generation  of 
little  ones  rebuking  him  with  the  sin  of  old  age,  as  in 
DuplicaU{^.  292): 

Mabel,  how  old  are  you?    But  six  I 
Why  is  it  fancy  plays  me  tricks? 
Upon  my  honour  I  declare 
I  saw  you,  Mabel,  sitting  there. 
The  same  blue  eyes,  the  same  gold  hair, 
.   O  long  ago!  years  more  than  thatl 
And  in  that  very  chair  you  sat. 
Swinging  the  same  prim  little  feet! 
It  couldn't  be,  you  say?  why,  true! 
And  now  I  think,  it  wasn't  you: 
No,  it  was  your  mamma,  my  sweet. 

But  stilly  in  the  succeeding  poem,  the  last  note  is 
one  of  winter  and  sadness : 

So  fallen  on  winter  days  am  I 

Whom  love,  dear  love,  has  swift  fled  by, 

Like  ungrasp'd  pleasure  of 'a  dream; 
Has  flitted  by,  with  scarce  a  word. 
Like  shadow  of  a  singing-bird, 

Across  life's  seaward-fleeting  stream. 

His  father's  death  about  1880— some  five  years  after 
the  death  of  his  mother — ^broke  up  the  home  at  Crewe, 
and  caused  him  to  come  in  1881  to  London,  where  he 
spent  the  remnant  of  his  life.  It  was  a  sad  remnant. 
"  There  is  no  solitude,"  says  a  wise  man,  "  like  that  of 
a  g^eat  city,"  when  one  desires  to  have  it  so ;  and  Ashe 
desired  that  it  should  be  so.  A  growing  sensitiveness 
and  craving  for  retirement  made  him  flee  away  "  not  to 
be  seen  "  even  by  his  oldest  friends.  To  some  of  them, 
when  he  wrote — writing  in  the  old  kindly  spirit — he 
would  nevertheless  send  no  address.  Once  when'dne 
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132  Thomas  Ashe. 

in  London— one  who  had  visited  him  and  his  sister  in 
the  days  of  the  Silverstone  curacy,  and  who  would  have 
been  only  too  glad  to  shake  hands  with  his  old  friend 
again — Ashe  came  to  the  lecture,  but  sat  in  a  back  seat 
out  of  sight,  and,  spite  of  urging,  would  not  come 
forward  to  renew  old  times.  And  thus,  narrowing  the 
circle  of  his  experiences,  and  shut  out  from  Spring, 
which  was  the  very  source  of  his  poetic  life,  he  who  had 
predicted  that  he  must  "  go  singing  to  the  grave  "  sang 
now  more  rarely  than  ever:  and  the  last  nine  years 
of  his  life  give  us  but  one  little  volume,  privately 
printed  in  1888,  entitled  Songs  of  a  Year. 

The  first  part  of  this  series  contains  foreign  remi- 
niscences, scenes  breathing  quiet  contentment  and 
consolation,  flirtations  with  little  "Trix"  and  "Elit," 
the  former  six  years  old,  the  latter  five,  and  some — not 
the  happiest  of  his  eflforts— entitled  London  Lyrics. 
The  last  part — if  we  exclude  the  poems  suggested  by 
Obermann,  Amiel,  Schopenhauer,  and  others,  and  the 
translations  from  the  French,  some  of  which  are 
extremely  graceful — is  of  a  deeper  tone,  entitled  Words 
of  Life  and  Deaths  and  it  is  introduced  by  the  couplet: 

With  me  come  roam,  with  trembling  faiths 
The  mist-wrapped  ways  of  Life  and  Death. 

These  pages  shew  the  poet  preparing  for  the  end ; 
moralising,  justifying  his  choice  of  solitude,  acknowledg- 
ing the  incompatibility  between  the  Two  Worlds  (p.  39), 
the  world  of  fact  and  the  world  of  dreams,  and  seeing 
a  purpose  in  the  last  sorrows  that  have  forced  him  to 
sing. 

Who  moves,  his  eye  upon  a  star. 

Trips  'mid  the  things  familiar. 

For  him  this  world  was  little  meant 

Who  builds  himself  a  tenement 

On  mountain  top,  the  clouds  roll  by 

With  their  celestial  pageantry. 

Who  loves  to  feed  on  morning  dew. 

Well,  if  his  mortal  wants  be  few. 


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Thomas  Ashi.  133 

He  think  he  sees  The  Use  of  Grief  {^.  43)  in  a  poet's 
heart: 

To  have  them  sing  wh^t  craft  avails 
But  this — to  blind  the  nightingales? 

And  God  makes  dark  our  life  to  raise 
Our  instincts  into  things  of  praise^ 

Scattered  throughout  the  volumes  of  his  poems  there 
are  several  on  religious  subjects,  most  of  which  breathe 
faith  aspiring  to  a  higher  and  fuller  faith.  In  his  last 
poem  of  all  he  appeals  To  the  Holy  Handmaidens 
(p.  58)  to  look  gently,  from  amid  their  "palm-leaf  and 
amaranth-leaf,  lily  and  passion-flowers,"  on  those  "  ill- 
starr'd"  flower-gatherers  who,  wandering  in  perilous 
places,  gather  "  the  glamour  pale  of  samphire  from  the 
rock."  The  last  but  one  is  entitled  Nem  and  Old 
(P-  57): 

Put  Comte  for  Christ,  and  read  us  why 

The  finer  fibres  of  the  soul 
Thrill  with  ^  sudden  agony 
Of  longing,  we  cannot  control. 

Put  law  for  God,  and,  if  you  caii. 

Unravel  us  how  over  all 
Falls  sadness,  as  of  eyes  that  scan 

The  jmgeant  of  a  ^neral. 

O  brothers,  we  are  weak!    O  let 

Our  tired  eyes,  with  weeping  dim. 
On  visionary  Olivet, 

Find  Christ  in  all,  and  God  in  Him. 

So  might  a  quicker  life  begin, 
A  newer  force  give  strength  to  be, 

And  drain  our  bitter  cup,  within 
Our  garden  of  Gethsemane! 

After  two  years  of  failing  health  he  died  on  the 
1 8th  of  December  1889  in  his  fifty-fourth  year.  Turning 
to  thoughts  of  country  peace  and  quiet  he  expressed  a 
wish  not  to  be  buried  in  London;  and  he  lies  in  the 
Churchyard  of  St  James'  Church,  Sutton,  Macclesfield, 

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134  Thomas  Ashe. 

by  the  side  of  the  Cousin  who  had  been  the  companion 
of  his  childhood,  and  of  whom  he  had  written,  twenty 
years  after  her  death  {Rememberings  p.  259) : 

My  earliest  friend,  how  gladly  went  our  feet 

At  eve,  _  to  seek  the  little  speedwells  sweet  I 

How  they  are  changed!  as  fits  the  changeful  years  I 

And  their  blue  eyes  are  saddened  as  with  tears! 

Since  you  to  find,  alas  I   there  is  no  way, 

Their  eyes  to  me  have  saddest  things  to  say; 

And  seem  to  ask  but  for  a  little  room 

Beside  your  grave,  for  love  of  you,  to  bloom  1 

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NOTES  FROM  THE  COLLEGE  RECORDS. 


3MONG  the  vast  quantity  of  records  of  its  past 
history  which  the.  College  possesses  in  the 
Muniment  Room,  there  are  none  of  greater 
or  more  varied  interest  than  the  letters  which  have 
there  been  preserved.  The  title-deeds  and  account- 
books  were  kept  deliberately  as  evidences  of  property, 
useful  at  the  time  and  likely  to  be  of  use  thereafter. 
But  while  many  of  the  letters  may  have  been  kept 
for  like  reasons,  it  is  only  at  occasional  and  distant 
periods  that  we  find  them  in  any  number,  and  many 
of  these  which  have  been  preserved  seem  to  have  owed 
their  preservation  to  chance  rather  than  design. 

Dr  Owen  Gwynne,  who  was  Master  from  161 2  to 
1633,  has  left  a  greater  quantity  than  any  of  his 
predecessors.  These  were  of  much  use  to  Baker  while 
writing  his  History  of  the  College,  though  that  austere 
antiquarian  is  of  opinion  that  Gwynne's  memory  rather 
suffers  from  their  existence.  Most  of  Gwynne's  letters 
are  of  a  formal  kind ;  some  are  from  Schoolmasters 
recommending  boys  to  close  Exhibitions  at  the  College^ 
many  from  Bishops  and  Noblemen  recommending 
members  of  the  College  for  election  to  Fellowships,i 
a  goodly  number  relate  to  the  College  estates,  and 
from  a  few  we  get  glimpses  of  the  life  and  views  of 
the  time,  in  many  ways  so  different  from  our  own. 
I  hope  with  the  permission  of  the  Editors  of  the 
Eagle  to  print  a  selection  of  the  more  interesting  of 
these  letters,  adding  a  few  explanatory  notes  from 
time  to  time ;  for  many  of  those  included  in  the  present 
paper  I  am  indebted  to  Mr  G.  C.  M.  Smith. 

R.  F.  S. 


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136  Notes  from  the  College  Records. 

Ambrose  Clive,  the  writer  of  the  two  letters  which 
follow,  was  admitted  Fellow  of  the  College  on  22  Mar. 
i6of,  so  that  he  was  probably  a  Fellow  at  the  time 
they  were  written.  Hobson  the  carrier  is  no  doubt 
the  famous  person  immortalised  by  Milton.  Mr  Henry 
Slejgcg  was  undersheriflF  to  Sir  R.  Milisent,  SheriflF 
for  the  County  in  161 1.  In  1619  Mr  Slegg  was  Town 
Clerk.  Robert  Lane  was  admitted  Fellow  of  the 
College  7  Apr.  1598.  Richard  Senhouse  was  admitted 
Fellow  on  the  same  day,  and  was  afterwards  Dean 
of  Gloucester  1621  and  Bishop  of  Carlisle  1624.  John 
Grace  was  admitted  Fellow  1602. 

Address:  To  his  Louinge  frend  Mr  Gwin  one  of  the  seniors 
of  S^  John's  Colledg  in  Cambridg 

Leaue  this  letter  w**»  a  couple  of  Cheeses  w**» 
M'  Hobson  Cambridg  caryer  at  y*  black  bull  withi^ 
Byshops-gate 

Loving  Tutor  my  many  occasions  of  keeping  home,  have 
made  mee  a  stranger  to  the  place  and  companye  I  most  ioyed 
in :  yet  my  thoughts  are  present  w***  yow  all,  and  myself  ready 
to  performe  the  best  love  testimony  I  ca  to  any  so  well 
deserving  frends.  I  have  no  token  wherby  to  comend  my 
love  to  yo^  but  a  couple  of  cheeses  w^'*  I  wish  accopanyed 
w*J>  a  wood  cock  pye  or  some  rarer  dish.  Good  S'  remeber 
my  love  to  the  all  ioyntly  seuerally  who  are  e  Grege  vesira: 
I  spare  to  write  more,  I  shall  very  shortly  haue  some  iust 
pccasio  to  sende  when  I  shalbee  agayne  troublesome,  in  haste 
Shavingto  this  10^  of  Januarye  161 1 

yours  to  vse  in  all  possible  kindeness 
Amb:  Cliub 

The  cheeses  yo"  shall  receiue 

w**»  this  letter  of  Hobson 

Addressed:  To  his  very  kinde  frend  Mr  Gwin  one  of  the  Seniors 
in  S^  Johns  Colledg  or  in  his  absence  to  Mr  Lane 
one  of  y«  fellowes  of  y*  Colledg 

Good  S'.  lett  me  desire  your  best  helpe  I  pray  yo^  to 
compounde  a  matter  of  difference  betweene  mee  and  Andrew 
Goodwin :  thus  the  case  standes.    He  stoode  bounde  for  xli : 


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liaving  a  counterbonde  fro  myself  and  Mr  Robinso  of  Emanuell 
to  saue  him  harmeless.  The  money  Robinso  had,  and  not  able 
otherwise  to  discharge  some  debts,  deliuered  to  Goodwin  a 
geldijig  at  y«  price  of  9^*  w«J>  before  Ed:  Kinge  of  the  bull 
and  mee  he  accepted;  and  at  y^  instant  vndertooke  before 
vs  to  deliuer  vs  our  counterbonde  w*hin  y®  space  of  3  dayes, 
I  promising  to  xnake  vpp  the  rest  out  of  my  owne  purse 
that  beeing  donne  hee  kept  him  in  his  hands  still  hackneyed 
him  out  dayly;  some  moneth  after  hee  repayred  to  mee  and 
complayned  that  hee  could  i^ot  have  his  money  for  him 
and  that  he  never  was  offered  aboue  7^*  for  him.  I  desired 
him  to  auoyd  further  trouble  that  y^  gelding  might  have  been 
priced  by  those  who  knew  his  worth  at  y«  deliuery  as  namely 
M*^  Henry  Siegg  and  Ed:  King  of  the  bujl.  Hee  hath  putt 
my  counterbond  in  suite  w*^out  any  notice  giuen  before  the 
last  tearme  passed :  I  am  not  present  there  with  yo^  to  produce 
that  meanes  I  could  to  secure  mee  els  I  know  I  could  ease 
myself  not  a  litle.  These  are  therefore  to  intreat  yow  and 
M'  Lane  (to  whome  Comend  my  kinde  loue  I  pray  yow  w*'* 
the  rest  of  your  good  companye)  to  moderate  y«  matter  betwixt 
vs  and  sett  downe  what  in  reason  and  conscience  may  giue 
him  satisfactio,  and  by  the  grace  of  god  I  will  see  it  repayd 
(as  soone  as  I  may  have  notice  and  can  take  order  to  sende 
vpp  to  yo^.  M'  Senhouse  and  M'  Grace  knew  partly  the 
worth  of  the  horse  whe  Goodwin  receiued  hina.  Good  S'  lett 
mee  vnderstand  by  this  bearer  what  course  yo^  can  take  w*** 
him,  and  I  will  willingly  submitt  myself  to  that  yo^  order. 
I  sente  a  litle  while  since  a  letter  to  yo^  w*^  a  couple  of 
cheeses  to  bee  left  w'^  Hobson  at  Londo  and  so  conueyed 
te  your  hands.  I  pray  god  they  proove  worth  acceptance. 
So  I  comend  my  kinde  love  to  yo''  all  whom  hast  will  not 
lett  me  name  this  xxiiij^^  of  January  161 1 

your  very  lovinge  frend 
Amb:  Cliub 

Emmanuel  Utie,  the  writer  of  the  next  three  letters, 
was  elected  a  Fellow  March  15,  i6o|.  In  his  letters 
we  see  a  trace  of  the  abuses  of  the  time.  Leases  of 
College  property  were  granted  to  individual  Fellows 
on  terms  probably  too  favourable  to  the  lessees.  At 
this  period  the  payments  made  to  Fellows  were  the 


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customary  trifling  sums  prescribed  by  the  Statutes  of 
Elizabeth.  The  annual  *  stipend  &  livery '  of  a  Fellow 
was  £\  ts  8d,  the  *  stipend  &  livery'  of  the  Master 
being  £iS  4s.  No  provision  was  made  in  the  Statutes 
for  the  distribution  of  surplus  revenue,  but  it  was 
assigned  by  the  Master  and  Seniors  in  vales  to  Fellows 
upon  leaving  the  College,  or  as  Baker  says  "  to  other 
emergent  uses."  The  practice  of  distributing  the 
balance  at  the  end  of  the  year  in  the  form  of  a 
'dividend'  among  all  the  Fellows  alike  was  not 
adopted  till  1628.  It  is  pretty  plain  that  U tie. was 
asking  for  such  a  vale.  Being  a  Yorkshireman  by 
birth  he  would  prefer  a  lease  of  property  in  his  own 
county. 

Addressed:  To  the  right  woorshipfull  Doctor  Gwin  Maister  of 
S*  Johns  Colledgo  in  Camb:  d.d. 

Emmanuel 

The  late  time  that  I  was  with  your  woorship  I  discours'd 
about  the  reiection  of  my  fellowship;  and  you  from  that 
accustomed  goodnesse  of  nature,  which  we  all  knowe  and 
feele,  did  encouradge  me  to  holde  that  poore  certaintie,  which 
though  it  be  but  a  Case  yet  it  is  a  place  whereunto  I  may 
retire,  and  I  had  rather  not  be,  than  not  be  quiet:  The 
next  election  (godwilling)  this  present,  I  will  resigne  it  into 
your  handes,  for  by  the  next  yeare  I  shall  be  reposed  ether 
in  Caeno  or  in  Coelo:  Preferment  comes  like  an  hackney 
with  a  broken  pace  yet  I  hope  I  shall  giue  it  the  spurre: 
And  how  I  ride  or  fall  you  shall  heare  from  me.  I  beseech 
you  respect  this  man  of  woorth  the  bearer  of  my  letter  who 
when  the  world  did  hold  me  and  keepe  me  dead,  did  reuiue  me : 
Amor  non  est  ratio  sed  affectio  et  nescU  modum^  I  challendge  in 
you  an  interest  which  makes  me  respect  you  as  much  as 
love  you  and  begge  this  thing  w^hout  you  y^  concerns  me  so 
neare  as  you  shall  know  of  me  afterward 

March  17  S*  Mildred  your  worships 

1 61 2  Breadstreete  woorme 

Emmanuel  Vtie 


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Notes  from  the  College  Records.  139 

Emmanud 

Right  woorshipfull  I  know  insolence  is  not  the  matk  of 
your  greatnesse  and  therefor  I  presume  to  vnfold  my  estate 
to  70a ;  cusios  sum  pauperis  horti  pouertie  w^h  is  the  schoUers 
common  enemie  is  still  my  spiritnall  frend:  The  world  is 
wearie  of  me  I  care  not  I  am  wearie  of  myselfe:  By  a  low 
estate  I  know  myselfe,  by  an  high  estate  I  should  have  knowen 
myselfe  too  well :  your  mildnesse  stirres  up  modestie :  let  me 
be  so  bold  to  make  you  so  farre  deified  as  to  know  my 
heart:  I  should  enter  on  a  lining  the  conuenience  better 
than  the  value:  yet  so  ou^prised  in  the  Kings  bookes  y^  it 
cannot  be  ouerprais'd.  Penurie  as  Eusebius  speakes  iroXv'xpoyoc 
vowK  like  a  quotidian  ague  hath  kept  <^oune  the  bodie  of  my 
praeferment:  I  desire  now  but  the  reuersion  of  the  woorst 
lease  in  Yorkshire,  y*  I  may  sing  vtterts  migrati  colonu  Or  a 
Htle  monie.  I  desire  not  much  because  I  haue  not  much,  for 
abundance  is  a  dropsie.  If  it  be  but  so  much,  as  will  make 
me  secure  and  set  me  free  though  not  make  me  a  libertine: 
yoo  know  (woorthie  sir)  that  in  former  times,  some  indeed 
of  greater  desert,  but  of  lesse  labor  than  myselfe  and  almost 
as  litle  continuance  had  some  monie  from  the  Colledge :  you 
know  how  sometimes  the  monsters  I  meane  the  b3rmember8 
of  our  Colledge  haue  tasted  of  our  shewbread:  Remember 
me  your  poore  creature,  y*  I  was  none  of  these  headstrong 
Jades  y^  offred  to  fling  you,  but  tendermouth  and  remained 
vnmoouable  vnder  you  without  a  bitte:  Reuerend  maister 
forget  me  not:  I  could  tell  you:  One  of  good  woorth  shall 
thank  yon  for  it,  as  yet  a  namelesse  frend :  I  list  not  speake 
of  anie  thing  w^hout:  it  is  a  signe,  of  nothing  within; 
Housoeu'  the  propertie  being  not  lost,  you  shall  haue  all 
the  stroke  in  disposing  my  fellowship:  which  shalbe  as  a 
Ihankefiill  Riuulet  sent  backe  againe  to  the  maine  sea  of  your 
goodnesse :  And  I  will  when  I  am  disiointed  from  your  bodie, 
still  haue  an  hand  like  a  poore  beadesman  to  lift  to  heaven 
for  yon:  Sept'  30,  161 2 

S*  Mildreds,  Breadstreete  youre  woorships 

humblie  and  hartilie 
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140  Notes  from  the  College  Records* 

Emmanuel 

S'  I  hutnblie  desire  you  now  at  the  Audit  if  there  be 
anie  distribution  of  monie  that  I  may  ether  be  remembred 
or  it  may  be  as  a  portion  resenied  for  me  vntill  the  fellowes 
election  at  which  time  I  must  giue  ouer:  of  these  two  in 
your  woonted  moderation  determine ;  you  haue  for  euer  bound 
me  and  so  I  remaine.  Doctor  ffenton  hath  taken  me  home 
to  his  house  where  I  Hue,  w^  one  Varro,  enough  for  me, 
who  hath  tutored  so  manie;  who  remembers  himselfe  with 
the  most  respect  a  frend  can  doe  to  your  loue:  No  court 
newes  I  can  yet  bestow  on  you,  I  am  amongst  the  Eglons 
of  the  citty,  who  did  this  weeke  entertaine  the  Erie  of  Somerset 
&  all  his  frends,  a  great  number  of  nobles,  w%  feasting  & 
masking  &  enterludes  to  the  summe  of  a  thousand  pound  in 
one  night  and  amongst  their  cups  there  was  lapiiharum  rtxa 
their  attendantes  did  so  abuse  the  Citizens  y*  the  Counter  did 
depriue  my  Lord  Chamberlane  of  his  coachman,  &  my  L.  of 
Sommerset  of  his  &  of  other  noblemens  seruants  to  the  number 
of  30,  and  so  kept  them  vnder  lock  and  key  till  morning: 
For  other  things  I  leaue  and  commend  your  woorship  and 
whatsoeu'  is  yours  to  God.  Jan:  7:  1613 
ffrom  Walbrooke  at 
Doctor  ffentons  your  worships  eu' 

house  to  command 

Emmanuel  Vtie 

Theophilus  Aelmer  or  Aylmer,  the  writer  of  the 
following  letters  was  son  of  John  Aylmer,  Bishop  of 
London,  who  died  3  June  1594.  From  the  "Visitations 
of  Hertfordshire"  p.  141  (Harl.  Soc.  Publ.)  we  gather 
the  following  facts  with  regard  to  Elmer  or  Aylmer 
of  Much  Hadham. 

Arms:  Argent^  a  cross  sable  between  three  sea^ 
aylets  of  the  second,  beaked  and  legged  gules, 

John  Aylmer,  Bishop  of  London,  married  Judith, 
widow  of  N.  Treheron  and  daughter  of  Rob.  King 
of  Audley  End.  Theophilus  Aylmer  was  his  second 
son  and  married  Mary,  daughter  of  William  Newce 
of  Much    Hadham.    Theophilus   Aylmer's  wife  was 


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connected  with  the  Leventhorpe  family,  as  we  find 
that  Thomas  Newce  of  Hadham  married  Dorathy  {sic) 
daughter  of  John  Leventhorpe  of  Shinglehall  co.  Herts, 
and  *High  Schreeve  of  the  same/  Probably  these 
were  the  parents  of  William  Newce  above  mentioned. 

Richard  Vaughan,  Bishop  of  London  from  1604  to 
1607,  matriculated  as  a  sizar  at  St  John's  in  1569 
and  took  his  B.A.  degree  in  i57f.  He  was  presented 
by  Bishop  Aylmer  to  a  canonry  at  St  Paul's  in  1583, 
became  Archdeacon  of  Middlesex,  Bishop  of  Bangor 
'595f  of  Chester  1597,  and  London  1604.  He  died 
30  March  1607 ;  his  life  was  written  by  our  Benefactor 
John  Williams,  Bishop  of  Lincoln. 

Bishop  Aylmer  was  tutor  to  Lady  Jane  Grey,  and 
belonging  to  the  Puritan  party  went  into  exile  under 
Mary.  As  Bishop,  however,  he  was  a  strong  supporter 
of  the  vigorous  policy  of  Whitgift. 

Dr  Gwynne  was  Aylmer's  chaplain  and  kinsman, 
and  acted  as  tutor  to  his  son. 

Sir  Henry  Billingsley  was  admitted  Foundation 
Scholar  of  the  College  in  155 1,  but  took  no  degree. 
He  became  a  Haberdasher,  Lord  Mayor  of  London 
1596,  M.P.  for  London  1603.  He  died  21  November 
1606,  and  is  buried  in  the  Church  of  St  Catherine 
Coleman.  In  1591  he  founded  three  scholarships  at 
St  John's  College.  He  published  in  1570  the  first 
English  translation  of  Euclid^  prefaced  by  an  essay 
by  Dr  John  Dee. 

It  is  satisfactory  to  know  that  Leventhorpe  Ailmer's 
claims  to  the  scholarship  were  recognised,  as  appears 
by  the  College  Register,  for  we  read  in  1615 

Ego  LeveniJtarpus  Aylmer  Harfordiensis  admissus  discipulus 
pfo  Dr  Billingsley, 

Addressed:  To  the  rightwo'  my  very  good  frend  Mr  Dr  Guinne 
Master  of  S^  lohns  Coll.  in  Cambr.    geue  these. 

M'  D«^  Gainne,  my  louinge  comendaciones  praemised,  These 
are  to  lett  you  vnterstande,  that  lately,  by  my  cosine  Billingslye, 
VOL.  XVI.  U 


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I  was  certefyed,  that  a  Schollershipe  in  y«  house  is  voyde  l>y 
the  death  of  one  Salter,  a  kinsman  of  the  Billingslyes  and 
that  the  next  of  the  kindred  is  to  have  some  praerogatiue 
aboue  others  in  sute  for  that  place.  May  it  therefore  please 
you,  togeth*^  w*h  the  Company  of  y®  fellowes  to  bestowe  that 
place  vpon  a  sonne  of  mine  called  Leuenthorpe  Ailmer,  you 
shall  not  only  indebte  me  vnto  you,  but  bestowe  the  place 
also  vpon  one  whose  grandmoth'  by  the  mothers  side  was 
sister  to  S*^  Henry  Billingslye.  If  it  shall  please  you  to  do 
this  fauor  for  me,  the  let  me  (I  pray  you,  for  our  mutuall 
loue  &  acquaintace  begott  by  meanes  of  o«"  worthy  frend 
Bish.  Vaughane)  craue  a  speciall  fauor  at  y  hand,  vie.  That 
you  would  appoynt  for  him  a  Tutor,  who  will  strictly  hould 
him  in  obedience,  dilligently  reade  vnto  him  &  keepe  him  in 
contineuall  exercise.  Good  M'  D^  as  you  knowe,  that  the 
makinge  or  marringe  of  a  young  SchoU'  much  dependeth  on 
the  goodness  or  badness  of  the  tutor,  so  it  would  please 
you,  that  (if  this  my  poore  boye  through  y  kindness  become 
a  meb'  of  y'  house)  it  would  please  you  to  apoynt  such  an 
one  ouer  him,  who  may  trewly  forme  him  in  leaminge  & 
godlyness.  And  I  will  geue  you  my  worde  (w<^h  by  gods 
grace  shall  not  fayle)  that  if  his  tutor  bestowe  on  him  care 
&  paynes  extraordinarye  my  thankfulnes  and  stipend  to  him 
shalbe  more  than  ordinary.  Thus  relyinge  vpon  y  loue  & 
kindnes  (w<^h  I  retme  most  firme)  I  comende  my  self  &  Sute 
vnto  you  &  you  to  God.    Much  Hadha.    Octob:  i8:  1615 

y  assured  frend 
Theoph.  Ailmer 


Addressed:  To  the  RightwM  D'  Gwinne  Master  of  St  lohns: 
mine  honored  frende. 

Worthy  D'  Gwine 

Knowing  the  nullitye  of  myne  owne  desertes,  if  it  wer 
possible  I  would  rayse  the  ghost  of  that  worthy  Bishop  D' 
Vaughane,  (in  whom  you  &  I  ianqua  in  Teriio  did  meete)  to 
comende  this  my  suite  unto  you.  His  name  &  remembred 
Love,  shall  now  suffice,  to  warrantize  cache  of  us,  to  challendge 
interest  each-one  in  the  other.  This  interest  in  you  (Worthy 
Master  of  S*  lohns)  let  me  now  finde,  in  y  help  to  be  afforded 
towarde  this  Nobleman  Contarin'  Palaeologus ;  of  whose  worth 


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you  shall  receave.  testimonyes  many  and  worthy,  beyond  all 
ezceptione.  O'  Kinge  highly  favoreth  him;  &  hath  granted 
him  much  grace  and  this  one  in  particular,  to  make  Collectione 
in  o'  University.  Now  for-as-muche  as  the  particular  help 
of  men  in  y  place,  shall  much  advance  the  reliefe  of  this 
worthy  man,  (the  Kinges  most  royall  intente)  I  most  earnestly 
(on  Christs  behalf)  intreat  you,  to  sett  forward  this  worthy 
worke  in  y  famous  Colledge,  that  this  distressed  nobleman, 
finding  that  we  who  live  in  peace,  have  a  true  feelinge  of 
his  afflictione,  may  glorify  God  &  geve  a  worthy  testimony 
to  O^  Vniversity  &  the  whole  Kingdome.  As  for  me,  might 
this  my  sute  any  white  advantadge  this  business,  I  shall  rest 
f  thankfull  debtor,  ever  more  prest  in  all  like  dutyes  by  you 
to  be  comaunded  to  the  uttmost  of  my  powre 

Hadham:  Octob:  16 

1622  Theoph:  Ailmer 

Richard  Neale,  the  writer  of  the  following  letter, 
was  admitted  to  the  College  in  1580;  he  was  Dean 
of  Westminster,  and  successively  Bishop  of  Rochester, 
Coventry  and  Lichfield,  Lincoln,  Durham,  and  Win- 
chester, and  finally  Archbishop  of  York.  He  died  in 
1640.  The  palace  of  the  Bishops  of  Lincoln  was  at 
this  time  at  Buckden  in  Huntingdonshire,  and  the 
ferry  referred  to  may  very  well  be  the  ferry  which 
still  exists  over  the  Ouse  close  to  Great  Paxton  village, 

M'  D'  Gwin.  Being  this  morning  booted  vpon  my  reso- 
lution to  come  this  nighte  to  Cambridge  &  to  haue  bin  your 
guest  at  supper,  &  having  sent  my  Groome  to  the  watersyde 
to  prepare  the  flfeny  bote  to  gett  my  coach  over,  I  receaved 
advertisement  that  the  waters  are  soe  much  out  and  the  w}mde 
&  streame  lying  togeather,  the  current  is  soe  strong  that  by 
any  meanes  my  Coach  is  not  to  be  had  over,  And  therefore 
I  am  enforced  to  make  this  my  excuse,  and  to  pray  y°  to 
make  it  knowne  to  my  Lord  of  Chichester  &  Mr  Deane  of 
Pauls.  It  is  much  against  my  will  that  I  should  thus  deceave 
your  expectacon  &  vary  from  my  purpose,  but  in  trueth  ptly 
for  that  I  am  very  full  of  colde  and  ptly  for  some  other 
indisposicon   of  my  body,   I   dare  not  travayle  so  farr  on 


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horsback  as  my  purpose  was  at  this  tyme  Jn  going  to  New- 
markett.      Soe   with    my  very   hartie  Comendacons   to  your 
good  self  and  M'  Deane  of  Pauls,  I  comitt  y«  to  God  and  rest 
from  Bugden.  Decemb.  3^.  16 14  your  very  loving  freind 

R.  Lincoln 

Samuel  Harsnet,  the  writer  of  the  next  letter*  was 
Archbishop  of  York  from  1629  to  1632, 

As  Master  of  Pembroke  .  and  Vice-Chancellor  he 
received  King  James  when  he  paid  his  visit  to  Cam- 
bridge in  i6i|.  It  will  be  observed  that  the  name  of 
the  youth  on  whose  behalf  the  Bishop  writes  is  not  men- 
tioned ;  he  probably  presented  the  letter  to  the  Master 
in  person.  The  letter  is  however  indorsed:  "In  behalfe 
of  S'  Langham  &<^" — Sir  being  the  title  given  to  a 
Bachelor,  Langham  did  not  get  his  Fellowship,  though 
he  seems  to  have  had  powerful  patrons,  for  in  the 
College  Register  under  the  date  November  8,  1626, 
we  read: 

Ego  Johannes  Langham  Northampioniensis  admissus  sum 
Disctpulus  pro  Domina  Fundatrice,  Ex  nominaiione  Comiin 
Exonice. 

/Lddressed;  To  the  right  wo"  my  very  louinge  Freind  Doctor 
Gwinn  Master  of  S^  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambridge  dd. 

Salutem  in  Xro, 

Good  Doctor  Gwii^,  it  goeth  hard  w*^  me  when  I  put  to 
vse  another  man^  penn :  a^d  indeed  soe  it  hath  pleased  God 
to  make  me  his  poore  prisoner  all  this  winter  season,  as  I 
haue  had  neither  vse  of  my  head  nor  my  hand :  My  head 
bauing  beene  opprpst  w*  a  dead  Lethargicall  humour  lyinge 
in  the  nape  of  my  iiecl^e  from  whence  it  hath  soe  incessantly 
flowed  into  my  stomacke  and  through  the  Muscles  into  all 
the  partes  of  my  body:  as  it;  hath  nqt  onely  taken  away 
mine  appetite  from  all  manner  of  meate.  but  consumed  that 
little  flesh  that  I  had  on  my  body,  and  vtterly  depriued  mee 
of  the  vse  of  my  hands.  I  seeme,  thankes  be  to  Allmightie 
God,  to  feele  some  little  lightening  of  my  spiritts  vnder  this 
greate  clowde,  and  if  It  please  God  I  creepe  out  of  it  I 
must  attribute  it,  next  to  the  gratious  goodness  of  Allmighty 


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God ;  vnto  the  Louing  Care  of  this  young  mans  father,  vnder 
whose  care  I  am.  He  is  a  diuine  in  Nottinghamshire  of  great 
worth  for  his  Leaminge,  Piety  and  diligence  in  his  callinge. 
But  more  for  his  publique  deseruings  of  the  Church ;  hauinge 
recouered  vnto  it,  out  of  the  iawes  of  the  woolfe ;  both  gleb- 
lands  and  Tythes  of  a  great  value.  Hee  is  a  good  Phisician 
and  if  it  please  God  I  recouer  I  must  owe  vnto  him  (next 
vnder  God)  my  lyfe  and  all  the  concomittanties  of  it.  In 
token  of  my  thankfulnesse  I  haue  an  important  suit  vnto 
you:  (and  it  is  the  last,  as  I  hope,  that  euer  I  shall  make) 
That  for  your  ould  Freinde  his  sake  who  did  euer  loue  you, 
you  will  be  pleased  to  reserue  yo'  fauor  for  the  bestowinge 
of  a  Fellowes  place,  vpon  this  his  younge  sonne ;  a  Bacheloure 
of  Artes  and  student  in  yo'  Colledge.  I  cann  engage  nothinge 
vnto  you  by  way  of  recompence,  but  that  but  w^^  you  already 
enioye.  My  Loue  to  yo'selfe  and  deuotion  to  that  famotis 
societie  of  yo'  Colledge,  w<=*'  I  haue  alwayes  honored  from 
my  heart  I  pray  remember  my  Loue  vnto  Doctor  Lane, 
and  shewe  him  this  letter.  And  soe  w'**  my  prayers  vnto 
Allmightie  God  for  the  multiplyinge  of  his  blessings  vpon 
that  Noble  foundation  of  S^  Johns,  I  rest 

Southwell  this  yo'  ould  weake  and 

25*^*  of  February  weary  ffreinde 

1630  Sa:  Ebor. 

Henry  Briggs,  the  writer  of  the  following  letter, 
was  bom  in  1556  at  Warle3rwood  near  Halifax,  and 
entered  St  John's  in  1577.  The  College  Register 
contains  the  following  entries  concerning  him  in  his 
own  handwriting: 

5  November  1579.  Ego  Henricus  Brigges  Eboracemis  ad- 
missus  SUM  discipulus  pro  domtna  fundatrice. 

«9  March  1588.  Ego  Henricus  Briggs  Ehoracmsis  admissus 
su.  socius  pro  M^  Assketon. 

9  Jaly  *59»«    Henricus  Briggs  eUctus  Topicus  suhUctor. 

7  July  iS9*«  Henricus  Briggs  electus  maihematicus  examinator. 
„  „        Henricus  Briggs  electus  lector  Medecinx  pro 

Doctore  Lincure. 

In  1596  he  was  elected  first  reader  in  Geometry  at 
Crresham  House  (afterwards  called  Gresham  College), 


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London^  which  post  he  held  till  161 9,  when  he  accepted 
from  Sir  H.  Savile  the  Savilian  Professorship  at  Oxford 
(now  held  by  another  Johnian).  He  died  in  Merton 
College  26  January  163^. 

Briggs  received  with  enthusiasm  Napier's  discovery 
of  logarithms  and  improved  on  it.  The  idea  of  tables 
of  logarithms  having  10  for  their  base  is  due  to  Briggs, 
as  well  as  the  actual  calculation  of  the  first  table  of 
the  kind. 

The  lands  mentioned  in  his  letter  appear  to  have 
been  lost  at  a  very  early  period  of  the  College  history, 
for  on  12  Nov.  i  Edw.  vi  (154^)  we  find  the  College 
sealing  letters  of  attorney,  empowering  one  Richard 
Rainshaw  and  another  to  maintain  the  College  title 
to  Helbron's  land  at  Langdon  Hills,  Essex,  and  also 
to  Benfylls  at  Horndon-on-the-Hill  in  the  same  county. 
From  a  note  with  the  title  deeds  it  would  appear  that 
the  College  claimed  25  acres  called  Benefields  in  the 
parish  of  Homdon-on-the-Hill,  and  44  acres  called 
Hildebrands  in  the  parish  of  Langdon ;  but  the  claim 
does  not  seem  to  have  been  substantiated. 

Addressed:  To  the  right  wor^  his  very  good  frend  M'  D.  Gwin 
master  of  S*  John's  Colledge  in  Cambridge 

S^  I  have  now  receyved  two  letters  fro  Ogden  the  butler 
of  your  Coll.  wherein  he  doth  earnestly  and  carefully  call  on 
me  to  send  an  ould  butterie-book  whiche  I  did  longe  ago 
deliver  fro  a  miserable  and  vndeserved  shamfuU  ende»  for 
findinge  it  torne  at  bothe  endes  and  as  appearethe  by  the 
threedes  at  the  backe  muche  of  it  beinge  rent  out,  I  had 
pitie  on  it,  and  acquaintinge  the  butler  with  my  purpose  I 
caried  it  to  my  chamber,  and  at  my  cominge  hither  brought 
it  with  me.  Since  whiche-  time  I  have  preserved  it  from 
further  decay;  so  that  exceptinge  two  leaves  whiche  I  tooke 
out  of  it,  nether  I  nor  any  man  els  hav  defaced  or  any  way 
hurte  one  letter  of  it.  I  am  glad  that  now  you  have  regarde 
to  these  smaller  thinges,  assuringe  my  selfe  that  in  others 
of  more  moment  you  will  continually  keepe  an  answerable 
regarde.      I   had  written  the  last  weeke,   but  that  thursday 


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being  my  lecture  day,  and  I  goinge  the  next  morning  betimes 
Tnto  the  Strande  could  not  by  reason  of  important  business 
retume  in  time:  and  the  whole  busines  beinge  of  so  longe 
a  time  of  no  account,  I  had  good  hope  that  2  or  3  dayes 
could  breake  no  square.  I  never  kept  it  withe  any  other 
desire  but  to  preserve  it  for  the  vse  of  the  Col).  I  now  sende 
it  by  Mr  Hobson  somewhat  carefully  wrapped  in  papers,  lest 
the  carriers  might  esteeme  it  as  wast  paper  and  vse  it 
accordingly. 

And  now  that  I  have  this  occasion  to  write  vnto  you  I 
would  be  an  humble  suter  to  your  w.  and  the  Seniors  that, 
whereas  the  Coll.  hathe  of  longe  time  beene  defrauded  of 
certaine  lands  in  Essex  called  Benefeildes  and  Hildebrands 
mentioned  in  the  lease  of  Higham  in  Kent,  but  not  knowen 
to  any  of  our  Colledge  nor  to  the  farmar  M'  Butler,  where- 
abouts they  should  lie;  you  would  be  pleased  to  lett  a  lease 
vnto  me  of  the  same  lands,  and  I  will  godwillinge  do  my 
best  endevoure  by  the  helpe  of  an  Essex  gentleman  a  frend 
of  mine,  to  recover  them  to  the  knowledge  and  vse  of  the 
colledge  and  if  it  please  god  that  I  do  finde  and  gaine  them 
to  the  Coll.  then  I  will  most  gladly  pay  bothe  for  the  lease 
and  licence  of  alienation  accordinge  to  the  customer  and  the 
arrerages  fro  the  time  of  the  sealinge,  and  if  you  please  to 
grant  and  scale  it  at  the  next  audit  or  before,  I  purpose  to 
seeke  out  and  take  a  viewe  of  the  landes  ether  in  lent  next  or 
in  somer  followinge  and  with  all  convenient  speede  to  put 
it  in  suite  if  I  can  finde  any  probabilitie  of  successe  answerable 
to  my  hope.  I  talked  with  M*^  Butler  about  it  and  he  is 
willinge  to  have  it  left  out  of  his  lease  if  it  shall  so  please 
yon.  I  have  longe  longed  for  this,  but  have  prosequuted  it 
slackly  partly  for  want  of  meanes  to  foUowe  chargeable  suites 
and  partly  because  I  must  relie  vpon  an  other  man;  but 
notwithestandinge  now  I  am  resolved  godwillinge  to  do  my 
best  endevoure  if  you  please  to  give  me  sufficient  uarrant 
by  lease.  Thus  wishinge  all  happines  to  your  w.  and  to  all 
that  worthie  societie  whereof  you  are  chiefe  I  take  my  leave, 
comendinge  vs  all  to  the  mercies  and  blessinge  of  our  most 
gratious  father,    fro.  Gresham  house  this  26  Nov.  1613 

your  w.  ever  to  his 

power  Heniue  Briggs 


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The  following  letters  are  of  interest  as  shewing  the 
state  with  which  a  nobleman  came  to  the  University 
in  these  times.  Thomas  Howard,  Earl  of  Arundel  and 
Surrey,  was  grandson  of  Thomas,  fourth  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  and  Mary,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Henry 
Fitz-alan,  Earl  of  Arundel.  The  Duke  was  attainted 
of  high  treason  in  1572  for  his  correspondence  with 
Mary  Queen  of  Scots.  He  was  beheaded  and  his 
estates  forfeited.  His  eldest  son,  Philip,  however 
inherited  in  right  of  his  mother  the  Earldom  of 
Arundel  with  the  baronies  of  Fitz-alan,  Clun,  Oswal- 
destrie,  and  Maltravers.  He  was,  however,  himself 
attainted  in  1590,  and  died  a  prisoner  in  the  Tower 
in  1595.  His  only  son,  Thomas,  the  writer  of  the 
letters  below,  was  bom  7  July  1592.  Being  deprived 
by  his  father's  attainder  of  the  honours  and  most 
of  the  estates  of  the  family,  he  had  only  the  title  of 
Lord  Maltravers  by  courtesy  during  the  reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  but  was  restored  by  Act  of  Parliament  1603 
to  all  the  titles  which  his  father  had  lost  by  his 
attainder,  as  also  to  the  dignity  of  Earl  of  Surrey 
and  to  the  baronies  which  his  grandfather  Thomas, 
Duke  of  Norfolk,  had  lost  by  his  attainder.  Lord 
Arundel  and  Surrey  was  created  Earl  Marshal  in 
1621  and  Earl  of  Norfolk  6  June  1644.  He  died 
4  October  1646,  and  is  chiefly  remembered  as  the 
collector  of  the  Arundel  marbles. 

The  issue  of  the  above  consisted  of  three  sons: — 
(i)  James,  Lord  Mowbray  and  Maltravers,  died  un- 
married in  1624:  that  must  have  been  very  shortly 
before  the  incident  which  led  to  the  following  letters. 
(2)  Henry  Frederick,  called  in  these  letters  Lord  Mal- 
travers, who  was  born  in  1608  (when  his  father  was 
still  apparently  only  16).  He  succeeded  his  father  in 
his  Earldoms.  On  his  death  7  April  1652  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  son  John,  who  in  1664  was  restored  to 
the  Dukedom  of  Norfolk,  (3)  William,  also  mentioned 
in  the  letters  below,  married  the  heiress  of  the  twelfth 


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Baron  Stafford,  and  was  himself  created  Baron  Stafford 
in  1640  and  Viscount  Stafford  in  the  same  year.  He 
was  attainted  in  1678. 

Letters  from  the  College  to  the  Earl  of  Arundel 
and  Surrey,  the  sender  of  the  letters  below,  are  printed 
in  Mayor-Baker^  Vol  I,  pp.  497  and  528. 

Lord  Sandys,  mentioned  in  the  letters,  was  William, 
fourth  Baron,  who  succeeded  in  1623  and  died  in 
1629.  It  is  noticeable  that  his  father,  the  third  Baron, 
was  one  of  the  Peers  who  had  tried  the  Duke  of 
Norfolk  and  Mary  Queen  of  Scots. 

Sir  Henry  Bourchier,  Knt.,  was  son  of  Greneral 
Sir  George  Bourchier  (third  son  of  John,  second  Earl 
of  Bath)  and  Martha,  daughter  of  William,  Lord 
Howard  of  Effingham.  He  was  therefore,  it  would 
seem,  a  connexion  of  Lord  Arundel's.  Sir  Henry 
Bourchier  became  fifth  Earl  of  Bath  1636,  and  died 
1654,  when  the  Earldom  became  extinct. 

Addressed:  To  the  Right  wor"  Mr  Doctor  Guyn  Master  of 
Saint  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambridge 

May  it  please  yo"  M*^  Doctor  Guyn. 

Mo  Lo.  of  Arundell  having  an  intent  that  my  Lo.  Matrauers 
his  Sonne  and  My  William  Howard  his  brother  should  be 
admitted  of  yo'  Colledge,  and  desiring  that  they  may  see 
this  Commencement  hath  written  to  yo"  to  that  effect  himselfe,. 
as  by  the  enclosed  his  Lop"  letter  yo°  may  vnderstand.  And 
hath  further  willed  me  to  send  yo°  a  particular  of  his  company. 
His  Loi^  desire  is  that  for  the  time  they  stay  in  Cambridge, 
w<*  wilbe  vntill  some  few  dayes  after  the  comencement  they  may 
liue  a  scholastique  life,  and  lodge  in  the  Colledge  if  it  may 
conveniently  be  done;  w*^  such  of  their  company  as  must 
of  necessity  be  neer  them :  as  by  the  inclosed  note  yo"  may 
perceaue.  The  rest  of  their  followers,  if  there  be  no  rome 
in  the  Colledge  shalbe  prouided  for  in  the  towne,  as  neer 
yo^  Colledge  as  possibly  may  be.  In  this  his  Lop  assures 
himselfe  of  yo""  best  and  friendly  furtherance  and  will  acknow- 
ledge yo'  courtesie  as  shalbe  offered.  The  time  of  their 
anriuall  in  Cambridge  wilbe  (God  willing)  on  Monday  ,or 
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Tuesday  next  at  the  farthest.  And  so  with  my  best  respect 
unto  yo*  I  rest 

Lond.  25  June  To  be  commanded  by  yo« 
1624  John  Borough 

A  note  of  my  Lo.  Matrauers  company. 

My  Lo,  Matrauers  and  his  brother  M'  William  Howard 
to  be  Lodged  in  one  Chamber  in  the  CoUedge,  w*^*  a  pallet 
for  the  gromes  of  their  chamber,  for  w<^^  there  is  stuffe 
sente  from  hence  to  furnish  it,  and  another  outward  chamber. 

A  chamber  in  the  Colledge  for  my  Lo  Sandys  and  his  man. 

A  chamber  in  the  Colledge  for  S'  Henry  Bourchier  &  his 
man. 

A  chamber  for  M'  Borough  and  his  man  in  the  Colledge. 

In  all  fine  chambers  to  be  prouided  in  the  Colledge  if  it 
may  be. 

The  rest  of  his  Lop  company  being  two  gentlemen,  'a 
grome  of  his  stable  and  a  footman  may  be  lodged  in  the 
towne  neer  the  College. 


Addressed:   To  my  very  assured   frende  M'  Doctor  Gwinne 
Master  of  St  Jhons  Colledge  in  Cambridge 

Good  M'  Doctor  Gwinne,  my  sonne  being  desirous  to 
epende  some  fewe  dayes  nowe  at  Cambridge,  &  make  himselfe 
a  member  of  that  famous  vniuersity,  where  many  of  o'  family 
haue  bin.  I  could  denye  his  suite,  as  althoe  I  am  desirous 
he  should  be  of  St  Jhons  y^  colledge,  where  my  father  and 
vncles  were  Scollers,  I  pray  make  it  noe  trouble  in  y«  worlde 
vnto  y^  for  both  I  and  my  sonne  himselfe  desire  he  may 
for  this  beginninge  line  as  much  as  may  be  accordinge  to 
y  rule  of  a  schoUer  to  giue  him  a  good  entrance  that,  what 
he  wantes  nowe  in  stayinge  long  time  he  may  supply  in 
regolarity.  Soe  w*^  my  very  harty  comendacions  I  rest 
Ar.  Ho,  25  June  y'  assured  frende 

1624.  ArUNDBLL  &  SuRRBTk 

I  have  entreated  my  good  frend  M'  Borough  that  he  will 
write  vnto  y"  of  y®  particolars  of  my  sonnes  company. 


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Good  M'  Doctor  Gwinne,  my  children  at  Cambridge  haue 
receiued  somuch  extraordinary  fauor  &  Curtesye  from  y»,  aa 
I  must  giue  y»  very  harty  thankes,  and  wish  with  all  my 
harte  I  had  any  meanes  to  requite  it,  for  them,  y^  haue  soe 
handled  the  matter  as  they  are  as  passionate  Cambridge  men, 
&  for  St  Jhons  in  particolar,  as  if  they  had  bin  of  many 
yeares  standinge  there,  and  my  sonne  Maltrauers  doth  daily 
look  ouer  those  notes  he  tooke  there,  and  they  both  are  soe 
full  of  theyre  loue  to  Cambridge,  as  they  often  remember 
&  wish  themselves  there.  Soe  w^  my  best  wishes  and  kinde 
comendacions  vnto  y°  I  rest  euer 

y  most  affectionate 

Arundell  House,  6  Aug:  true  frende 

1624.  Arundell  &  Surrsy 


M*^  Doctor  Guyn 

Although  I  am  destitute  of  meanes  to  make  requitall  for 
the  many  courtesies  I  haue  receiued  from  y°.  yet  I  must  not 
forgett  to  acknowledge  myselfe,  y  debtor :  which  I  unfaynedly 
do  by  these  few  lines  and  do  assure  y°  that  it  shall  bee 
want  of  ability  but  not  of  will  if  any  vppon  whome  y^  hauo 
bestowed  y^  fauors  do  outstrippe  mee  in  the  measure  of 
thankfulnesse  and  remuneration  for  effectinge  whereof  I  will 
not  ommitt  to  take  hold  of  all  occasions  that  may  bee  offered 
to  giue  y»  further  testimony  that  I  am 
Anmdell  house  your  assured  frind 

August  6  Hbn:  Maltrauers 

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THE    COLLEGE    PICTURES    AT  THE    TUDOR 
EXHIBITION. 

gHE  Master  and  Fellows  of  St  John's  College 
have  this  year  (1890)  lent  to  the  Exhibition 
of  the  Royal  House  of  Tudor,  at  the  New 
Gallery  in  Regent  Street,  London,  three  pictures, 
numbered  23,  29,  and  138  in  the  Catalogue  of  the 
Collection.  The  first  two  are  of  Lady  Margaret 
Beaufort,  and  the  third  of  Bishop  John  Fisher.  They 
are  those  described  by  me  in  the  Eagle  (xi.  pp.  362, 
121,  and  118,  respectively).  For  the  purpose  of  com- 
parison with  my  own  descriptions  I  will  quote  those 
from  the  Tudor  Exhibition  Catalogue. 

23.  *  Margaret  Beaufort,  Countess  of  Richmond  and 
Derby  (1441 — 1509).  Life-size,  full  length,  kneeling  to  left, 
under  gold  cloth  of  state,  bearing  Tudor  Arms,  black  gown» 
white  diamond-shaped  hood  with  gorget,  hands  clasped  in 
prayer ;  before  her,  open  book  on  prie-dieu  covered  with  cloth 
of  gold;  in  background,  stained  glass  window,  on  which 
the  Tudor  arms  are  repeated.  Panel  71x45  in.  Lent  by 
St  John's  College,  Cambridge. 

29.  Margaret  Beaufort,  Countess  of  Richmond  and 
Derby  (1441 — 1509).  Half-length,  life-size,  to  left,  black 
dress,  white  diamond-shaped  hood  with  gorget,  book  in  both 
hands.  Panel  22xi6iin,  Lent  by  St  John's  Collsgb, 
Cambridge. 

138.  Cardinal  Fisher,  Bishop  of  Rochester  (1456 — 
1535).  Half-length,  life-size,  full  face,  black  gold  embroidered 
doublet,  black  surcoat  and  cap;  in  right-hand  a  staff;  in  left  a 
glove;  inscribed  above,  A^  iETATIS  74.  Panel  28x24in« 
By  Hans  Holbein.    Lent  by  St  John's  College,  Cambridge. 


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I  have  visited  the  Exhibition  twice,  and  have 
carefully  compared  Nos.  23  and  138  with  other  portraits 
exhibited,  and  especially  with  Nos.  10  and  61  in  the 
Catalogue.    I  may  as  well  quote  their  descriptions  also. 

10.  Margaret  Beaufort,  Countess  of  Richmond  and 
Derby  (1441 — 1509).  Three-quarter-length,  life  size,  to  left, 
black  dress  and  gorget,  vrhite  lace  cufifs,  black  and  brown 
diamond-shaped  hood;  lace  bordered  handkerchief  in  right- 
hand,  book  in  left.  In  background  window,  through  which  is 
seen  a  representation  of  Calvary.  Below,  tablet  inscribed 
Margarbta  Mater  Henr.  jmt  Com**  RickmonduE  and  Dtrbic^ 
Panel  40  x  29  in.    Lent  by  The  Lord  Braye. 

61.  Cardinal  Fisher,  Bishop  of  Rochester  (1456-* 
1535).  Half-length,  life  size,  to  left,  wearing  black  cassock, 
white  velvet  and  black  stole,  and  biretta.  He  holds  a  prayer 
book  in  both  hands.  Panel  2 1^x16^  in.  Lent  by  The  Hon. 
H.  Tyrwhitt  Wilson. 

First,  as  to  the  portraits  of  Lady  Margaret,  I  have 
been  greatly  impressed  by  the  close  resemblance  of 
the  features  in  the  College  Picture  (No.  23)  with  those 
in  Lord  Braye's  (No.  10).  Our  picture  is  believed  to 
be  a  copy,  but  it  is  undoubtedly  an  exceedingly  good 
one.  A  manuscript  catalogue  drawn  up  by  R.  T.  Bone 
in  1834,  in  the  custody  of  the  Master  of  our  College, 
states  that  the  following  inscription  is  on  the  back 
of  the  picture — ^^Rolandus  Lackey  pinxit^  Londini^ 
Impensis  Juliance  Clippesbii  Generosce  Virginis  Norfolk 
ciensis."  Lord  Braye's  portrait  is  nearly  full  face, 
and  is  years  younger  for  the  time  of  life  represented. 
Lady  Margaret  is  in  the  sober  though  rich  costume  of  a 
great  lady  of  the  period.  The  hood  is  black,  and  the 
coif  is  brown,  instead  of  both  being  white  as  in  our 
picture.  There  is  nothing  conventual  about  the 
costume.  The  College  portrait  shews  an  older  lady 
with  scarcely  any  colour  in  the  face,  yet  with  features 
strikingly  similar  except  for  the  natural  effect  of  age. 

Next,  as  to  the  portraits  of  Bishop  Fisher,  ours 
(No.    138)    is    by  Holbein,  and  was   given  by  Lord 


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Weymouth  to  the  Rev  T.  Baker  in  1709,  and  left  to 
the  College  in  1740.  It  represents  Fisher  five  years 
before  his  death,  and  therefore  some  time  before  the 
question  of  the  Royal  Supremacy  arose.  There  is  a  care- 
worn expression  not  unnatural  to  a  man  of  seventy-four 
in  that  troubled  time.  The  other  picture  (No.  61)  seems 
to  show  Fisher  at  a  more  advanced  age.  He  died  in 
1535  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine.  I  should  think  No.  61 
was  taken  when  Fisher  was  in  prison.  There  is  an 
expression  of  religious  resignation  about  the  face  that 
is  most  remarkable.  The  features  are  thinner  and  the 
colour  of  the  face  almost  g^ey,  the  lips  also  are 
bloodless,  and  the  hands  and  fingers  thin.  In  general 
position  this  picture  (No.  61)  is  like  the  drawing  by 
Holbein  firom  Her  Majesty^s  Collection,  No.  506  in  the 
Catalogue.  Upon  this  drawing,  as  I  see  by  a  photo- 
graphic reproduction  now  before  me,  is  the  date  1525. 
What  struck  me  was  the  great  similarity  of  the 
eyebrows,  lips,  nose,  eyes,  and  form  of  head  in  both 
pictures  (Nos.  138  and  61).  I  have  not  the  least  doubt 
that  ours  does  represent  Bishop  Fisher.  And  I  think 
that  No.  61  IS  a  most  excellent  picture  by  as  good 
a  master  of  his  art  as  Holbein,  and  done  at  least 
nine  years  after  Holbein's  drawing.  Our  own  smaller 
picture  of  Fisher,  though  but  a  very  bad  copy,  has 
considerable  resemblance  in  position  and  as  to  the 
sunken  features  with  No.  61.  I  refer  to  the  picture 
described  by  me  in  the  Eagle  (Xl.  p.  362). 

Lastly,  let  me  now  notice  another  picture  in  the 
Tudor  Collection  described  thus— 

374.  Portrait  of  a  Lady.  Small,  bust,  to  left,  black 
dress,  puffed  over  white,  embroidered  ruff  and  stomacher,  black 
jewelled  cap.  Inscribed  AN.  DNL  1567.  Panel  \\\^^\\xi. 
Lent  by  S.  C.  Roby  Esqre. 

I  find  a  most  extraordinary  resemblance  both  as 
to  costume,  ^nd,  so  far  as  my  memory  goes,  to  features, 
between  this  small  and  beautiful  picture  and  the  one 


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in  the  Master's  Lodge  which  I  have  described  in  the 
Eagle  (XI,  p,  176),  in  part  thus — 

A  Lady,  unknown  (of  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth),  The 
words  'AN.  DNI.  1565,  Aetatis  sua  20'  are  on  the  picture. 

I  am  all  but  convinced  that  the  two  portraits  repre- 
sent the  same  lady.  The  diflference  in  age  is  strongly 
corroborative.  The  Picture  No.  374  certainly  represents 
a  lady  nearer  22  than  20.  I  will  now  give  a  more 
complete  description  of  No.  374,  with  which  I  request 
your  readers  to  compare  the  description  given  by  me 
on  the  page  of  the  Eagle  last  cited. 

374.  Black  velvet  dress,  puffed  sleeves,  slashed  to 
shew  a  faint  yellow  striped  muslin  embroidered  garment 
under,  this  garment  ends  in  a  small  embroidered  ruflf 
of  the  same  material.  Black  velvet  hood  rests  on  the 
back  of  the  head,  the  coronal  of  the  hood  edged  with 
narrow  gold  lace  (or  jewelled).  The  dress  is  a  little 
open  at  the  neck  shewing  the  muslin  undergarment, 
and  also  a  small  part  of  a  stomacher  of  embroidered 
linen.  There  is  a  strong  double  chain  with  round 
links  of  gold,  passing  under  hood,  round  the  neck, 
and  fastened  in  front  of  the  dress ;  but  the  picture  is 
too  short  to  shew  any  medallion  that  might  be 
suspended  from  it.  There  is  a  sextuple  gold  chain 
with  fragile  rectangular  links  about  the  neck.  As  to 
the  features,  we  have  here  a  strikingly  handsome  lady, 
possibly  of  Scottish  birth,  judging  by  the  rather  high 
cheek-bones.  The  hair  is  of  a  light  sandy  colour, 
and  is  rolled  back  from  a  high  forehead.  The  nose 
is  straight,  the  eyes  dark  blue,  the  eyebrows  slightly 
arched.  Fair  complexion  with  bright  colour;  face 
rather  narrow.  I  am  informed  by  the  owner,  S.  C. 
Roby  Esqre,  of  Rutland  House,  Burton-on-Trent, 
that  the  picture  can  be  traced  in  the  possession  of 
his  family  for  quite  200  years;  he  considers  it  to 
represent  Queen  Elizabeth  when  young,  and  remarks 
that  the  portrait  has  strong  likeness  to  that  Queen's 


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half-brother  Edward  VI.  The  Queen,  however,  would 
have  been  34  years  of  age,  and  9  years  on  the  throne, 
when  the  portrait  was  painted ;  but  the  subject  appears 
to  be  under  24  years  of  age,  and  there  are  no  emblems 
of  royalty  about  the  costume,  unless  the  roses  and 
daisies  on  the  embroidery  of  the  undergarments  are 
such  emblems.  The  College  retains  no  tradition  in 
connexion  with  its  own  picture. 

A.  Freeman. 

Mtuston  Rectozy,  Feb.  24,  1890. 

[The  following  portraits  of  Johnian  worthies  are  also 
to  be  seen  in  the  Exhibition.  We  give  the  catalogue 
numbers. 

Charles  Brandon,  Duke  of  Suffolk — 38,  54,  75,  93, 
114,  164,  444,  1 1 20  (miniature). 

Sir  Anthony  Denny — 88,  1095  (miniature). 

Sir  John  Cheke — 95. 

Sir  Thomas  Wyat — 131,  169. 

Thomas,  Lord  Wentwoith — 143. 

Thomas  Sackville,  Earl  of  Dorset — 263,  373,  398. 

Dr  John  Young,  Fellow,  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity, 
Master  of  Pembroke  Hall — 273. 

William  Cecil,  Lord  Burghley — 290,  316,  332,  351, 
356,  402,  425,  457,  467,  482. 

Richard  Bancroft,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury — 362. 

Ben  Jonson — 387,  427,  1140  (miniature). 

Two  relics  of  Dr  John  Dee  are  exhibited;  one 
(1050)  is  described  as  '  Dr  Dee's  Showstone  or  Speculum, 
into  which  he  used  to  call  his  spirits,  asserting  that  it 
was  given  to  him  by  an  angel';  the  other  (io64^) 
as  '  Dr  Dee's  Divining  Crystal.' 

There  is  also  (105  2  A)  a  portion  of  Ben  Jonson's 
coffin,  found  in  Westminster  Abbey  when  John  Hunter 
was  re-interred  in  1859.' 

Among  the  casts  of  seals  are  two  (1400)  of  *The 
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As  the  descriptions  are  of  importance  in  connexion  with 
the  history  of  the  College  Arms,  it  may  be  of  interest 
to  transcribe  them. 

1.  Large  round  seal  with  a  shield  of  the  arms  of  Beaufort, 
supported  by  two  antelopes  gutties,  behind  each  of  which  is  an 
ostrich  feather  struck  through  a  scroll  and  with  a  chain  along 
the  quill.  On  the  top  of  the  shield  stands  an  eagle  displayed 
and  gorged  with  a  coronet,  holding  in  his  beak  a  scroll 
encircling  the  seal,  inscribed :  sigillum  :  [domine  :  margarete:] 
coMiTissE  :  richemound':  AC  :  filie  : . . .  .ede  :  iohis  :  • . . . 
Ducis  :  som's 

2.  Large  round  seal  bearing  a  shield,  the  arms  of  Beaufort, 
supported  by  two  antelopes,  behind  each  of  which  is  a  small 
feather  struck  through  a  scroll.  Upon  the  shield  rests  a 
beautiful  coronet  of  roses  and  fleur-de-lis,  from  which  rises  a 
demi  eagle  with  wings  expanded  and  gorged  with  a  coronet 
with  pendent  chain.  The  eagle  holds  in  his  beak  a  scroll 
encircling  the  seal,  inscribed :  s*  :  dne  :  m'garete  :  cmtisse  : 

RICHEMUDIE  f  DERBI   FILIE  \  HER*  \  lOHfS  DUG*   :  SOM'sET  :  AC 

matr'  her'  vij  reg'  angl  t  fr' 

A  copy  of  the  catalogue  has  been  placed  in  the 
College  Libraiy. 

D.  M.] 


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RESIDENT  ESURIALES  FERIAS. 

turning  over  a  mass  of  old  papers,  I  lit  upon 
^^'^  this,  which  deserves  to  be  rescued  for  tho 
Lent  number  of  the  Eagle,  Many  years  ago, 
when  the  Cambridge  Independent  Press  posed  as  a 
champion  of  Protestantism,  this  letter  was  placed  late 
in  the  week  in  the  Editor's  box.  I  heard  at  the 
time,  but  have  forgotten,  the  author's  name.  It  was 
hoped  that  in  the  hurry  of  making  up  the  number 
the  letter  might  escape  severe  criticism.  As  it  did 
not  appear  the  next  Friday  it  was  taken  for  granted 
that  the  cheat  was  detected.  But  no:  after  the  staflf 
had  had  some  nine  or  ten  days  to  deliberate  on  it, 
it  appeared.  The  Saturday  Review^  if  I  remember 
right,  had  an  article  on  the  congenial  theme. 

Frederick  Maurice  once  addressed  a  letter  to  Lord 
Ashley  on  right  and  wrong  methods  of  supporting  Protes- 
tantism.  Certainly  the  success  of  this  hoax  proved 
that  Protestantism  has  nothing  to  hope  from  advocates 
who  speak  magisterially  of  matters  absolutely  unknown 
to  them.  If  a  band  of  scholars  would  issue  a  Review 
of  ReviewSy  we  might  find  even  now  that  prints  more 
pretentious  than  the  Cambridge  Independent  Press 
weekly  or  monthly  or  quarterly  deal  out  to  their 
readers  teaching  not  much  more  veracious,  and  far 
less  amusing,  than  this  on  'Lenten  Indults.' 

J.  E.  B.  M, 

To  the  Editor  of  "  The  Cambridge  Independent  Press.*' 

LENTEN  INDULTS. 
Sir, 

Tractarians,  English   Church   Unionists,  or   (to  speak 

unreservedly)  Romanizers,  are  much  in  the  habit  of  asserting 


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that  their  pernicious  doctrines  and  practices  were  those  of 
the  early  Chnrch,  and  they  talk  glibly  of  the  "authority  of 
Councils,"  and  "  primitive  tradition."  Now,  sir,  to  those  who 
hold  that  the  Bible  and  the  Bible  only  is  the  standard  of 
religion,  so  that  every  one  can  find  out  what  is  Christianity 
for  himself,  it  matters  not  what  early  Christians  thought  or 
did ;  but  as  it  is  always  satisfactory  to  defeat  an  enemy  with 
his  own  weapons,  I  beg  to  send  you  an  extract  from  the 
Decrees  of  the  First  Lateran  Council  of  Pompeii,  a.d.  246, 
a  Council  which  is  not  often  quoted,  but  whose  authority 
I  have  never  yet  heard  impugned  even  by  the  most  violent 
writers.  The  following  extract  clearly  proves  that  their  Lenten 
Indults  were  not  only  unknown,  but  were  actually  condemned^  at 
that  early  period.  I  have  preferred  sending  you  the  [original, 
as  were  I  to  attempt  a  translation  I  should  probably  be  accused 
of  a  misrepresentation.  The  educated  laity  of  Cambridge  can 
read  it  and  interpret  it  for  themselves.  At  any  rate,  I  defy 
the  Tractarians  to  give  it  any  other  meaning :. 

"Dec.  Condi.  Pomp.  xvii.  cap.  4,  §  12 :— Qaum  scriptores  inepti  et  qoi 
linum  denario  sinbrint*  in  ignobili  charta  nuntiomin  de  omnibus  qui  non 
intelligere  possnnt,  dicant,  et  quum  verbis  utuntur  de  quibus  nihil  noscant 
exempH  gratia  'indtdyum '  turn  jastnm  est  eos  iUadi  ab  iUis  qaos  objargant." 

This  proves  as  clearly  that  Indults  and  other  mummeries 
were  alien  to  the  spirit  of  the  early  Christians,  as  you,  Mr 
Editor,  showed,  in  answer  to  Mr  Knowles,  that  the  Canons 
of  1 603  are  unauthorised  relics  of  Popery. 

I  would  advise  those  of  your  readers  to  whom  Latin  is  a 
dead  tongue,  to  read  an  able  article  on  this  subject  in  the 
July  nimiber  of  the  "  Quarterly  Journal  of  Palaontology :"  it 
is  also  ably  treated  in  Mr  Thomas  Carlyle's  eloquent  and 
exhaustive  "Defence  of  the  Nicene  Creed."  Further  argu- 
ments will  also  be  found  in  St  Augustine'sf  treatise.  Contra 
fidem^  vol.  i.,  p.  666,  and  in  Whewell's  "  Platonic  Dialogues," 
vol.  II.  Dial.  3.    The  latter  learned  author  conclusively  proves 

*  The  interpretation  of  this  somewhat  unusual  expression  has  caused 
great  difficulty  to  the  commentators,  and  does  not  appear  to  have  been  used 
by  the  early  I^atin  writers.  The  best  critics,  as  Buckle,  Schlegel,  Tupper, 
and  Jones,  take  it  to  mean  certain  eccentric  ritualists  who  flourished  at 
that  period. 

t  The  boldest  Tractarian  will  not  dare  to  dispute  the  authority  of  thiSH 
Father,  as  his  works  have  been  edited  at  Oxford  by  Dr  Pusey  and  others. 


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1 60  Resident  Esurtales  Ferias, 

by  the  system  of  the  inductive  philosophy,  that  innovation 
and  superstition  are  the  invariable  precursors  of  prelacy, 
priestcraft,  and  pantheism.  Numbers,  sir,  may  be  against  us, 
but  it  is  cheering  to  know  that  we  still  have  learning  on  oar 
side.  I  trust  that  you  will  never  cease  to  expose  the  poisonoas 
principles  of  embryo  Papists.  If  all  had  behaved  as  you  and 
your  Protestant  correspondents  have  done  during  the  last  six 
weeks,  I  have  no  doubt  but  that  true  Church  principles  woald 
have  been  much  more  popular  than  they  are  at  present.  I 
trust  that  it  will  not  be  long  before  pseudo-Churchmen,  who 
contradict  the  Prayer  Book  and  break  its  rubrics,  are  brought 
to  see  that  they  have  no  right  to  consider  themselves  so  much 
superior  to  others  who  behave  more  consistently. 

I  remain,  Sir,  yours, 

A  GRADUATE. 


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^i^kf^j^m.^ 


SELWYN'S  EPIGRAM. 

?HE  Epigram  on  a  Font,  in  the  last  number  of 

P|     the  Eagle^  seemed  familiar  to  me,  and  I  thought 

that  the  text  in  the  first  line  was  rather  corrupt. 

After  some  search  I  have  found  the  original.     It 

appeared  in   the  second  number  of  the  Ecclesiologisty 

the    organ    of   the    Cambridge    Camden    Society,    in 

December  1841,  and  there  stands  thus: — 

INSCRIPTION   FOR  A  FONT 

UOCOYEO  FROM  THE  CHURCH,  AND  USED  AS  A  VASE  FOR  FLOWERS 
IN  A  GARDEN. 

&  feZv*  arf^eCKov  rdB*  ifnaKOTrtp,  Sm  fie  rgSe 

eZSe9  VTT*  apyaXiff^  ay0o4>opovvTa  tvxv^» 
h^  TO  irplv,  ISpvOel^  lepoU  ivl  Bcifiaai  XpiO'Tov, 

avSea  (l>VTa\iat^  ovpaviat^  e(f>epov. 
eh  ifii  yap  ySa^^evre?  iv  vSari  Uvivfiarl  ff  ^hyv^ 

ayOpcairmv  iralSe^  rixv*  iyivovro  Qeov. 
vvv  Si  fAOt  aWa  fii/irfK',  ifiit  S'  avSea  yqlva  irdyra. 

&  iroTfio^  aXyivoei^,  &  Kkio^  ovKir^  ifioy, 

W.  S. 

It  will  be  observed  that  there  are  two  more  lines  in 
this  version,  and  that  the  last  but  one  has  a  different 
reading.  It  is  interesting  to  see,  in  the  JSagle  version, 
the  actual  church  mentioned,  and  the  name  "G.  A. 
Selwyn"  afl^ed  to  the  poem.  The  **W.  S."  affixed 
to  the  version  I  give  I  take  to  mean  William  Selwyn, 
the  Canon  of  Ely  and  afterwards  Lady  Margaret 
Professor. 

In  the  same  number  of  the  Ecclesiologtsi  I  find  his 
name  as  just  elected  a  member  of  that  Society,  and 


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1 6  2  Selwyris  Epigram. 

that  his  brother  the  Bishop  was  about  to  sail  for  his 
diocese,  furnished  with  designs  and  working  drawings 
for  a  church. 

It  seems  a  plausible  conjecture  that  the  version 
given  in  the  Eagle  is  the  original  composition  of  the 
Bishop's,  and  that  the  one  in  the  Ecclesiologist  is  an 
emended  one,  either  by  him  or  by  his  brother  the 
Canon ;  of  the  two  I  incline  to  the  latter  opinion. 

There  are  also  two  English  versions  of  it  in  the 
Ecclesiologist  ;— 

(i)  in  No.  5  (March  1842). 

Stop,  stranger !   stop,  and  pity  me ; 
Then  tell  the  Bishop  what  you  see. 
How  chang'd,  degraded,  is  my  lot, 
A  flow'r-vase  on  a  garden-plot  I 
I  once,  beneath  a  Christian  dome, 
Had  floVrets  for  a  world  to  come. 
My  flow'rets  drank  the  Spirit's  dew, 
In  water  wash'd,  were  born  anew; 
Were  purified  from  earthly  leav'n, 
Made  sons  of  God,  and  heirs  of  heav'n. 
O  wretched  fate!    O  glory  gone! 
Earthly  my  flow'rs — for  heav'n  I've  none. 

C.  F.  v.— Rectory,  Suffolk. 

(2)  in  No.  7  (April  1842). 

Go,  friend,  the  Charch's  Ruler  tell,  that  by  a  doom  severe. 
To  bear  the  garden's  flow'ry  store  you  saw  me  station'd  here ; 
Me,  who  in  ancient  hallow'd  house  of  Christ  install'd  of  yore. 
Plants  of  celestial  parentage  and  flow'rs  ambrosial  bore. 
For  sons  of  men,  baptized  in  me  and  my  life-giving  flood. 
Of  water  and  the  Holy  Ghost  were  born  the  sons  of  God. 
Now  all  is  changed  1    These  flow'rs  of  earth  I  soon  to  earth 

resign ; 
Oh,  woe  is  me !    O  glory  once  my  own — no  longer  mine ! 
Gkbf,  In/and. 

J.  R.  LUNN. 
Marton-cum-Grra(ton, 
Dec.  20,  1889. 


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ON  THE  BROADS  IN  MARCH. 

gHE  Broads  of  Norfolk  have  so  often  afforded  a 
subject  for  the  pen  that  the  appearance  of 
this  article  would  be  unjustifiable  were  it  not 
that  the  actors  herein-mentioned  claim^  though  probably 
unjustly,   to  have  initiated  winter  yachting  on  these 

waters.     Certainly  for  the  last  two  years  B and 

I  have  sailed  the  first  yacht  of  the  year  over  all  the 
rivers.  March  is  early  enough  to  gain  this  honour, 
yet  we  have  tried  to  get  a  yacht  in  January;  but 
Wilson  of  Oulton  is  too  careftil  of  his  excellent  boats 
to  let  them  out,  even  to  such  old  friends  of  his  as  we 
are,  when  they  are  likely  to  be  scratched  and  cut 
with  sheet  ice.  The  Palmer  had  only  been  in  the 
water  a  week  when  we  went  on  bocird  on  March  i6 
of  last  year.  She  had  been  specially  fitted  out  for 
us,  and  taken  from  her  winter's  rest  among  her  dis* 
mantled  sisters  and  seven  or  eight  decrepit  luggers 
that  lie  at  their  last  anchorage  at  the  lower  part  of 
the  Broad.  Picturesque  indeed  is  one  of  these  old 
hulls,  fixed  by  a  chain  cable  to  an  old  anchor,  l3ring, 
in  peaceful  rest,  just  beyond  the  reeds  that  separate 
the  open  water  from  a  ploughed  field,  her  old  timbers 
that  had  often  thrown  off  a  heavy  sea  in  the  German 
Ocean  scorning  the  fresh-water  ripples  that  flap 
incessantly  at  her  sides.  In  Lake  Lothing,  below 
Mutford  Bridge,  there  are  perhaps  a  hundred  of  these 
old  vessels  lying  on  the  mud,  left  dry  by  the  receding 
tide :  some  with  a  mast  and  a  spar  or  two  still  standing, 
others  with  the  hull  dismantled  of  all  but  the  outer 
timbers,  lying  with  perhaps  a  rope  idly  trailing  in 


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1 64  On  the  Broads  in  March. 

the  water,  waiting  for  their  last  owner  to  break  up 
the  weather-worn  shell  for  the  sake  of  the  old  timber. 

The  Palmer  is  a  cutter  of  eight  tons,  with  berths  in 
the  cabin  for  four.  Having  been  built  for  the.  sea, 
she  proved  very  stiff  in  stormy  winds,  and  was  in 
every  way   the  very  boat   for   a   March    expedition. 

B and  I  started  at  10A.M.,  with  a  light  S.W.  wind, 

and  as  we  had  to  pick  up  Nimrod  at  Wroxham,  we 
decided  to  make  Acle  that  day,  a  thirty-mile  sail, 
so  we  took  a  man  of  Wilson's  on  board  to  bring  us 
through  Yarmouth  at  low  water.  Mark,  a  short  and 
wiry  man,  with  a  simple  style  and  sing-song  voice, 
was  entertaining  enough  with  his  yams  of  the  fisheries 
in  the  winter  and  of  the  eccentricities  of  the  Cockney 
yachtsman  in  the  summer.  We  ran  along  Oulton 
dyke  into  the  Waveney,  and  as  the  presence  of  a 
native  on  board  was  an  opportunity  not  to  be  lost 
we  got  out  the  one-inch  map  and  started  to  improve  it. 
With  a  red  pencil  I  marked  the  shallow  banks,  and 
with  a  blue  the  comers  we  could  take  close  in  without 
risk  of  running  aground — ^very  important  knowledge 
when  one's  yacht  draws  as  much  as  three  feet  six  inches ; 
iind  I  fondly  believed  that  in  an  hour  I  had  leamt 
the  pilot-lore  that  Mark  had  spent  his  life  in  acquiring. 
A  six-mile  sail  brought  us  through  Herringfleet  swing 
bridge  to  the  mouth  of  the  New  Cut,  a  straight  canal 
of  three  miles,  which  was  cut  through  to  the  Yare 
in  1830  to  make  Norwich  a  port.  The  project  failed 
owing  to  the  rapid  silting  up  of  the  twenty-six  miles 
of  river  connecting  the  city  to  the  sea  at  Lowestoft. 
Although  we  were  going  through  Yarmouth,  we  forsook 
the  Waveney  to  avoid  its  winding  reaches  and  the 
fixed  bridge  at  St  Olave,  and  sailed  through  the  Cut 
to  Reedham,  then  turned  down  the  Yare,  and  in  four 
more  miles  met  the'  Waveney  again  at  the  top  of 
Breydon  Water.  The  detour  made  a  two-mile  longer 
course  for  us,  but  it  was  better  to  take  it,  as  with  a 
S.W.  wind  we  could  sail  the  Cut  on  one  tack  and 


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the  comparatively  straight  Yare  on  the  other.  Breydon 
Water  is  four  miles  long  and  at  high  tide  a  mile  or  so 
across,  but  as  we  dropped  down  on  the  fallings  tide 
between  the  red  and  black  posts  that  mark  the  channel 
there  were  large  expanses  of  mud  beginning  to  show 
themselves  on  either  side.  My  map  is  now  covered 
with  red  crosses  to  indicate  posts  that  owing  to  the 
shifting  of  the  mud  no  longer  mark  the  edge  of  the 
safe  sailing  course.  As  we  met  the  swirl  of  the  tide 
in  the  narrow  Bure,  which  joins  the  Yare  at  the 
bottom  of  Breydon  Water,  we  should  very  likely  have 
been  carried  against  the  lower  bridge  had  not  Mark 
taken  a  very  wide  bearing  round  the  Nowl,  and  with 
the  quant  crept  up  against  the  rush  till  we  grounded 
off  the  Bowling  Green.  In  the  three  hours  we  had 
to  wait  for  the  flood  we  strolled  along  the  busy  quay 
and  through  the  quaint  narrow  streets  of  old  Yarmouth. 
When  the  tide  had  floated  us  off  at  six,  neither 
of  us  had  bought  what  we  had  landed  for.     I  was 

delighted  that    B had .  forgotten  his  half-ton  of 

Captain's  biscuits,  as  there  was  already  enough  ballast 
in  the  shape  of  pig-iron  and  lead ;  and  he  chuckled  that 
my  box  of  bloaters  were  not  on  board.  "They  are 
as  bad  as  Gorgonzolsi,"  said  he,  "  which  Winkle  always 
brings  with  him :  we  put  the  last  lot  in  the  river,  as 
none  of  us  could  live  on  board,  and  your  bloaters 
would  have  to  go  too."  There  are  two  fixed  bridges 
to  pass  at  the  entrance  to  the  Bure,  so  we  got  the 

mast  down  and  B took  the  quant.    B always 

quants  when  there  is  any  quanting  to  be  done,  he  thinks 
no  one  else  can.  "  You  don't  get  a  long  enough  thrust, 
Boss,"  he  says  to  me,  "  What's  the  use  of  beginning 
to  push  at  the  stem,  go  along  the  whole  length  of 
the  yacht,  like  I  do."  So  he  goes  out  to  the  end  of 
the  bowsprit  and  gets  the  quant  planted,  then  works 
in  to  the  bows,  then  along  the  roof  of  the  cabin,  then 
along  the  gunwale,  and  finishes  at  the  stem-sheets. 
If  we  had  a  mizzen  boom  aft  he  would  go  to  the  end 
VOL.  xvx.  Z 


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i66  On  the  Broads  in  March. 

of  that.      One  or  two  of  B 's  friends  have  tried 

to  imitate  his  acrobatic  performance,  but  they  never 
try  twice. 

When  we  were  through  the  bridges  we  set  the 
mast  and  hoisted  the  sails,  not  that  there  was  any 
wind  worth  hoisting  them  .to,  but  only  for  the  sake 
of  appearance.  The  tide  took  us  on  to  the  Two-mile 
House,  when  at  a  bend  of  the  river  there  was  a  slight 
draught  against  us,  %o  we  started  tacking,  a  very 
ticklish  thing  in  the  dark  in  these  narrow  reaches, 
as  the  banks  are   shallow  and   stony.     We  got  on 

for  a  mile  or  so,   then  B came  out  handsome : 

"  There's  a  half-crown  for  you,  Mark,"  said  he,  "  if  we 
get  to  Acle  before  twelve  to-night."  When  Mark 
went  for'ard  and  gave  a  haul  on  the  jib  halyard  and 
another  on  the  peak  and  took  the  tiller  himself,  we 
began  to  think  he  had  been  playing  with  us  all  day. 
That  half-crown  taught  us  a  thing  or  two  concerning 
sailing  and  the  behaviour  of  the  human  being  hired 
out  by  time.  At  11.55  that  night  Mark  drank  our 
healths  at  Acle  bridge. 

The  next  morning  there  was  a  fine  S.W.  breeze, 
80  we  lowered  the  mast  and  got  through  the  bridge 
early,  paid  off  Mark,  and  started  in  splendid  weather 
to  sail  the  fifteen  miles  to  Wroxham.    "It's  a  great 

deal  too  fine  for  me,"  said  B ,  "  I  came  for  winter 

sailing,  and  here's  the  sun  shining,  the  birds  singing, 
the  flowers  a-blooming;  I  call  this  weather  a  fi-aud." 
We  passed  on  our  right  the  mouth  of  the  Thume, 
which  leads  in  eight  miles  to  Hickling  Broad,  the 
largest  and  wildest  of  all  these  shallow  lakes,  and 
then  the  ruins  of  St  Benet's  Abbey,  standing  between 
the  mouth  of  the  Thurne  and  that  of  the  Ant. 

After  sailing  ten  miles  we  passed  Thompson's  Inn, 
at  Homing  Ferry,  where  we  have  seen  in  the  summer 
as  many  as  fifteen  or  twenty  yeichts  laid  up  for  the 
night,  and  then  past  the  village.  This  was  the  only 
occasion_I_remember  having  passed  Homing  village 


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without  being  greeted  by  the  children  with  the  refrain 
"Hey,  John  Barleycorn."  I  suppose  they  were  too 
much  astonished  with  the  appearance  of  a  yacht  in 
March  to  resort  to  their  usual  means  of  extracting 
a  penny  or  two.  In  the  first  reach  beyond  Homing 
the  wind  was  foul  of  us ;  we  tacked ;  on  the  third  tack 
we  ran  aground.  The  rapidity  with  which  we  got 
off  was  owing  to  the  fact  that  two  men  set  out  in 
a  boat  from  the  village  to  our  assistance.     Now  if 

there  is  one  thing  B and  I  are  determined  on, 

it  is  that  we  will  not  accept  the  assistance  of  native 
watermen  when  we  are  in  difficulties.  So  when  we 
saw  that  boat  set  out  unsummoned,  we  hauled  the 
jib  sheet  hard  to  weather  at  once,  and  got  her  bows 
round  with  the  quant  just  in  time  to  give  the  natives 
a  grievous  disappointment. 

At  Wroxham,  B said  he  would  show  me  how 

to  stop  when  sailing  before  a  strong  wind,  so  when 
we  were  in  sight  of  the  bridge  he  sent  me  for'ard 
to  haul  down  the  jib,  he  then  put  the  tiller  hard 
down,  and  the  next  moment  her  bows  were  up  dry 
on  the  bank,  our  bowsprit  nearly  carrying  away  a 
notice-board.  "  Why  on  earth  weren't  you  aft  hauling 
in  the  main  ? "  said  B ,  "  you  expect  me  to  do  every- 
thing." We  lifted  her  bows  into  the  water,  and  having 
fixed  a  head-line  to  a  heavy  weight  we  found  on 
the  bank,  we  stowed  the  jib  in  the  forepeak,  put  the 
coats  on  the  mainsail,  and  got  the  awning  spread 
over  the  cabin  and  the  well,  making  all  snug  for  the 
night.  We  then  strolled  up  to  the  King's  Head  for 
provisions. 

The  last  time  we  visited  the  King's  Head  was  also 
in  March.  We  had  come  down  for  a  few  days'  sailing 
in  the  Merlin,  a  Johnian's  pretty  little  three-tonner,  a 
splendid  boat  for  a  summer  cruise  and  for  racing.  We 
arrived  late  one  afternoon  and  decided  to  have  a  square 
dinner  and  a  bed  at  the  Inn  for  the  night.  This  was 
because,  besides  B and  me,  there  was  also  Jinks  to 


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be  considered ;  and  as  he  had  never  been  out  yachting 
before,  even  in  summer,  it  was  only  kind  to  let  him  have 
one  comfortable  meal  and  one  peaceful  night  during 
the  expedition.  The  last  look  round  at  night,  after  an 
evening  charmed  away  by  Jinks'  voice  to  the  accompani- 
ment of  a  piano  very  much  out  of  tune,  presaged  for 
the  morrow  a  fine  day  and  a  light  breeze.  Alas !  how 
fallacious  were  our  prophecies!  At  7  A.M.  we  gazed 
on  nature  shrouded  in  a  mantle  of  snow.  Four  inches 
lay  on  the  ground,  and  every  one  of  those  thickly  falling 
flakes  was  adding  to  the  depth.  But  there  was  a 
redeeming  feature — there  was  a  good  wind  from  the 
North.  We  turned  out  at  once  to  see  to  the  yacht  that 
had  been  left  without  an  awning.  On  the  decks,  on  the 
cabin,  round  every  rope  and  block  where  the  snow  could 
accumulate,  in  the  well  and  in  the  jolly  boat,  seemed 
to  be  collected  much  more  than  the  area  would  warrant. 
Jinks  at  once  proposed  we  should  breakfast  at  the  Inn. 
We  agreed  to  this  in  order  to  give  the  snow  time  to  stop 
if  it  so  intended,  and  thus  avoid  shovelling  it  out  more 

than  once;  but  B and  I  were  determined  to  start 

at  9  in  any  case,  and  not  allow  so  fine  a  wind  to  expend 
its  energy  in  vain.  The  wind  freshened  and  the  snow 
began  to  stop,  so  we  borrowed  a  spade  and  a  fire-shovel, 
and  in  half  an  hour  I  hauled  in  the  mainsheet  to  a 
spanking  breeze  on  the  quarter,  and  with  cabin  windows 
under  water  we  began  a  fast  run  to  Homing.  It 
was  with  just  such  another  wind  that  our  friend  Tarn  and 
two  others  made  what  was  probably,  of  its  kind,  a 
record  over  this  portion  of  the  river.  They  were  in  the 
Merlin^  ftiUy  reefed  down  to  a  strong  wind  aft.  Now 
as  the  wind  increased  it  seems  to  have  jybed  about  their 
boom  like  a  weathercock,  the  yacht  ran  into  one  bank 
and  then  into  the  other,  till  they  gave  her  up  as 
unmanageable,  lowered  their  canvas,  and  blew  down 
with  bare  poles  into  Homing.  This  is  Tam's  account. 
It  was  his  first  visit  and  he  says  it  will  be  his  last.  We 
would  have  given  much  to  have  seen  it. 


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But  to  tetum  to  our  narrative.  With  our  larder 
replenished  from  the  Inn  we  enjoyed  a  modest  meal, 
knowing  well  what  wonderful  dishes  were  in  store 
for  us  when  Nimrod  arrived,  and  got  early  to  sleep  after 
the  previous  night's  work*  In  the  morning  we  looked 
again  to  our  stores  and  determined  to  be  ready  to  get 
under  way  as  soon  as  Nimrod  ^arrived,  so  we  quanted 
the  yacht  across  the  river  to  gain  the  shelter  of  some 
trees  from  the  strong  Southwester  blowing,  hoisted 
the  sails  short,  and  lay  with  every  thing  ready  to  cast 
o£F  at  once.  When  we  are  out  only  for  a  week,  lying 
up  for  an  hour  or  two  is  a  grievous  waste  of  time. 
Stopping  to  see  the  villages,  to  examine  the  churches, 
to  explore  the  dykes,  or  even  to  lie  in  the  cabin  with 
a  novel  are  all  very  well  in  summer,  but  in  March  we 
go  for  the  sailing  only,  and  determine  to  have  a  week 
of  it;  not  a  conventional  week,  but  an  astronomical 
week  if  we  can  stand  it,  with  but  little  lying  up  at  night, 
and  without  stopping  for  such  trivialities  as  meals.  We 
heard  the  train  at  the  station  and  in  a  few  minutes 
Nimrod  was  on  the  bridge  with  his  kit-bag  over  his 

shoulder.    B fetched  him  on  board  with  the  jolly 

boat,  we  tightened  the  halyards,  and  cast  off  at  once. 
"Look  here,  Nimrod,"  I  said,  "you  had  better  go  in 
and  change."  "What  do  you  mean?"  he  replied, 
"I  always  come  down  ready  for  work,  give  me  the 
tiller."  ,  I  looked  at  his  get-up— shooting  boots, 
stockings,  knickers,  skull-cap  and  Norfolk  jacket 
seemed  appropriate  enough,  though  we  were  in  would- 
be  white  flannels.  "What  have  you  got  in  your 
kit-bag  then  ? "  "  Only  some  things  to  sleep  in  and  the 
•  baccy.' "  Two  sets  of  flannels  get  so  terribly  used  up 
if  we  have  anything  like  dirty  weather,  and  especially 
as  the  two  sets  have  sometimes  to  come  into  daily  use 

simultaneously;  B and  I  always  bring  something 

decent  to  travel  back  in.  Nimrod  is  of  opinion  that 
in  the  matter  of  boots  the  best  made  are  not  too 
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they  come  up  to  the  knee  all  the  better.  '*  A  man  is  not 
up  to  much  if  he  hasn't  a  good  pair  of  boots,"  says 
he.    "  By  their  boots  shall  ye  know  them  "  is  a  maxim 

of  his.     He  should  certainly  take  B in  hand.    An 

eighteen-penny  pair  of  canvas  shoes  is  all  he  takes  with 
him.  They  are  generally  left  in  the  river  when  he 
comes  home,  but  once  he  made  a  pair  last  two  years. 
Of  course  they  are  soaked  the  first  time  he  lands  in 
them.  In  the  evening  he  used  to  take  them  o£E  and 
hang  them  up  by  the  laces  to  the  boom  over  an  oil  stove 
to  dry,  but  as  this  was  found  useless  he  never  takes 
them  off  now,  except  when  he  bathes,  but  sleeps  in 
them  as  they  are.  There  is  one  advantage  of  sleeping 
in  wet  things  and  it  is  this,  that  you  avoid  having  to 
throw  o^  a  warm  dry  set  in  the  morning  to  get  into 
wet  things  for  the  day's  work.    It  takes  longer  to  get 

to  like  this  than  to  like  most  things.    B 's  plan 

avoids  this  unpleasantness,  and  it  applies  to  his 
flannels  also,  for  he  only  brings  a  thin  Mackintosh 
guaranteed  to  fold  into  six  square  inches  and  weigh 
ten  ounces,  which  therefore  always  gets  wet  below  the 
shoulders. 

We  had  just  got  past  Horning  when  the  wind  began 
to  get  tricky,  and  the  sky  had  largely  clouded  over; 
a  squall  was  working  up  and  in  a  few  minutes  we  heard 
the  hissing  of  the  hail  through  the  reeds  and  the 
lashing  of  the  water  just  in  front  of  us.  Nimrod  and  I 
had  our  yellow  oil-skins  and  sou' westers  on,  so  we  sailed 
through  it,  and  continued  through  the  rain  that  lasted 
some  hours,  hauling  the  ropes  with  a  pair  of  coarse 
hedging-and-ditching  gloves,  half  a  dozen  pairs  of 
which  B had  brought  with  him. 

In  one  of  the  reaches  there  were  two  wherrymen 
towing  their  heavy  craft.  We  have  heard  men  say  they 
don't  like  towing  a  boat  back  to  Cambridge  after  a 
sail  down  to  Ely.  This  must  be  because  walking  slowly 
on  a  well-kept  towing-path  does  not  afford  sufficient 
exercise   and   variety.     These    are   the   people    that 


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would  really  enjoy  towing  an  eight-ton  yacht  on  the 
Broads. 

When  B  ■  and  I  were  out  in  March  with  Jinks 
we  did  a  typical  bit  of  towing  in  the  very  reach  we 
are  now  sailing,  the  St  Benet's  reach.  We  had  just 
come  down  the  Thume  and  wished  to  get  up  to  Horning 
before  dark.    A  stormy  gale  with  sleet  was  in  our  teeth. 

B said  he  would  show  us  how  to  tack  in  a  strong 

wind.  We  let  him,  and  although  he  kept  her  bow  in 
the  right  direction  we  should  no  doubt  have  soon 
reached  Acle,  had  I  not  intervened  by  lowering  the 
main  and  taking  a  rope  out  for  a  tow-line.  At  first  I 
started  on  the  west  bank,  with  my  Lady  Margaret  longs 
rolled  up  to  the  knee,  and  made  one  or  two  bold  steps 

onward  in  six  inches  of  water  as  B pushed  her  out 

into  the  river  with  the  quant.  When  she  was  free  and 
the  wind  caught  her  bare  poles,  the  line  over  my 
shoulder  nearly  cut  through  my  clavicle :  to  tow  onward 
was  out  of  the  question,  but  I  endeavoured  at  least  to 

hold  her  up,  in  order  to  show  B that  any  towing 

would  pay  better  than  his  tacking.    But  it  did  not,  we 

were  still  backing  towards  Acle.    Then  B had  an 

idea;  he  often  gets  ideas  when  we  are  in  difficulties, 
and  always  when  we  are  not  and  don't  want  them.  His 
notion  was  that  I  should  go  on  pulling  from  the  bank, 
he  would  quant,  and  Jinks  should  steer.  This  seemed 
a  fair  division  of  labour  considering  Jinks's  size  and 
strength.  We  once  asked  Jinks  to  quant,  but  we 
shall  not  do  so  again ;  he  put  the  quant  in  obliquely, 
and  giving  a  violent  thrust  pushed  it  through  the 
water  well,  but  it  did  not  reach  the  bottom,  and  he 
only  saved  a  ducking  by  getting  his  feet  entangled 
in  the  main  sheet.  He  bravely  tried  again,  and  this 
time  found  the  bottom  ;  but,  being  afraid  to  push, 
did  not  even  turn  the  yacht,  which  is  generally  a 
very  easy  thing  to  do  when  one  wants  to  go  straight. 

"If  I  were  you,"   said  B ,  "I  would  breathe  on 

that  quant  a  little  harder."    While  B was  getting 


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ready  the  quant  the  yacht  was  aground  at  the  bank, 
but  after  a  little  exercise  from  the  end  of  the  bowsprit 
he  got  her  off.  She  was  half  turned,  the  wind  caught 
her  hull,  she  blew  across  the  river,  and  got  aground 
on  the  other  side — fifty  more  yards  towards  Acle. 
We  made  two  attempts  to  recover  those  fifty  yards, 
and  had  just  come  to  the  conclusion  that  when  we 
got  aground  again  the  best  thing  to  do  would  be  to 
stop  aground,  when  a  drop  in  the  wind  enabled  us 
to  get  on  and  pass  a  bend  in  the  river,  where  the 
reach  lay  a  point  or  two  off  the  wind.  Then  we  slowly 
got  the  better  of  the  gale,  till  we  came  to  the  mouth 

of  the  Ant.      Here  B ■  said  it  was  selfish  of  me 

to  do  all  the  towing,  he  would  do  some.  So  he  took 
the  end  of  the  line  across  the  mouth  of  the  Ant  with 
the  jolly-boat.  "When  I  get  over,"  he  said,  "you 
just  push  her  off  and  then  jump  aboard."  I  pushed 
her  off  and  was  just  going  to  spring  on  board,  when 

B pulled,  and  she  was  at  once  out  of  my  jumping 

distance;  but  I  still  had  the  quant.  I  took  a  step 
or  two  back  to  get  a  run,  and  plunging  the  quant 
into  the  river,  I  took  a  vault  which  I  calculated  would 
just  land  me  on  the  departing  stem.  But  vaulting 
in  water  seemed  to  be  a  different  art  from  vaulting 
on  land.  The  quant  slowly  raised  itself  and  stood 
perpendicularly  out    of  the   water — how    long  I  was 

poised  thereon  I  cannot  say;    B and  Jinks  had 

never  seen  anything  so  ludicrous,  so  I  don't  like  to 
ask  them:  they  might  exaggerate.  However,  I  feel 
quite  certain  that  in  spite  of  all  statical  laws,  the 
stable  equilibrium  of  that  quant  is  when  it  is  balanced 
on  its  point.  I  waited  for  it  to  topple  over,  then 
gave  it  up  and  slipped  down  into  five  feet  of  water,, 
scrambled  to  the  yacht,  and  got  on  board.  I  was 
not  dry  and  not  warm.     I  think  the  temperature  of 

the  water  was   i°C,  B thinks  it  was  io*C,  as  he 

naively  remarked,  "Can't  you  see  it's  sleeting?  sleet 
never  comes  in  cold  weather."     Towing  that  reach 


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is  the  beat  bit  we  have  ever  done ;  it  took  four  hours 
to  do. 

Our  third  night  we  lay  anchored  in  Applegate's 
creek  at  Potter  Heigham.  Being  then  so  near  to 
Horsey  Mere  and  to  Hickling  Broad,  on  whose  wide 
expanse  of  water  and  amongst  whose  wild  reeds  we 
had  obtained  most  of  our  pleasure,  we  discussed  our 
plans  for  next  day — ^how  far  we  would  take  our  yacht 
on  to  the  Broad,  and  what  open  sailing  boats  we 
would  get  from  Applegate. 

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Sir  John  Robert  Townshknd,  Earl  Sydney,  G.C.B. 

After  an  illness  of  nearly  four  weeks*  duration,  Earl  Sydney 
died  at  Frognal,  Chislehurst,  Kent,  a  few  minutes  after 
one  o'clock  on  February  14. 

Sir  John  Robert  Townshend,  Earl,  Viscount,  and  Baron 
Sydney,  was  bom  in  August  1805.  He  was  the  only  son 
of  his  father,  the  second  Viscount  Sydney,  by  Lady  Caroline, 
a  daughter  of  the  first  Earl  of  Leitrim.  Educated  at  St  John's 
College,  where  he  graduated  M.A.  in  1824,  he  succeeded  his 
father  as  third  Viscount  in  1831.  The  following  year  he 
married  Lady  Emily,  a  daughter  of  the  first  Marquis  of 
Anglesey,  K.G.  He  sat  in  the  House  of  Commons  from  1826 
to  1 83 1  as  the  member  for  Whitchurch,  one  of  the  parliamentary 


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boroughs  abolished  bj  the  Reform  Act  of  1832.  His  lordship 
was  all  his  life  connected  with  the  Court.  He  was  a  Groom-in- 
Waiting  to  George  IV,  and  a  Lord-in- Waiting  to  William  IV. 
He  was  a  Lord-in- Waiting  to  Queen  Victoria  from  1 841  to  1846. 
He  was  Captain  of  the  Yeoman  of  the  Guard  1852-58,  and  Lord 
Chamberlain  to  the  Queen  1859-66  and  1868-74.  A  Liberal 
in  politics,  in  1880  he  was  appointed  by  Mr  Gladstone  Lord 
Steward  of  Her  Majest/s  Household,  and  he  was  again 
Lord  Steward  in  the  Liberal  Ministry  from  February  to 
July  1886.  He  was  created  Earl  Sydney  in  1874.  He  was 
a  Privy  Councillor,  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Kent,  Captain  of 
Deal  Castle,  and  Colonel  of  the  Cinque  Ports  Division  of 
the  Royal  Artillery,  and  an  official  Trustee  of  the  British 
Museum.  During  the  day  on  which  he  died  telegraphic 
messages  of  condolence  were  forwarded  to  the  Countess  Sydney 
by  the  Queen,  the  ex-Empress  Eugenie,  the  Prince  and  Princess 
of  Wales,  Lord  Salisbury,  Mr  Gladstone,  and  others^  Thd 
funeral  took  place  at  the  parish  church,  Chislehurst^  on 
February  19,  having  been  postponed  at  the  request  of  Her 
Majesty,  in  order  that  she  might  be  represented  by  the  Earl 
of  Lathom  (Lord  Chamberlain);  the  Prince  of  Wales,  the 
Empress  Eugenie,  Prince  Christian,  Lord  Granville,  Mr  Glad- 
stone, and  many  other  persons  of  distinction  were  present. 
The  heir  to  the  entailed  property  is  the  Hon  Mr  Marsham. 
Earl  Sydney  belonged  to  a  branch  of  the  Townshend  family 
of  which  the  Marquis  Townshend  is  the  head,  but  as  he  had 
no  issue  the  title  becomes  extinct. 

The  Court  Circular  of  February  14  contained  the  following 
announcement: — "The  Queen  received  with  deep  concern 
this  morning  the  news  of  the  death  of  Earl  Sydney,  who  had 
been  for  so  many  years  attached  to  her  person,  and  had 
held  high  and  important  offices  in  her  Household,  and  for 
whom  Her  Majesty  had  the  highest  regard.  The  Queen  and 
her  Family  mourn  in  him  another  faithful  and  devoted  friend." 

Our  portrait  of  the  late  Earl  we  owe  to  the  courtesy  of 
the  proprietors  of  the  Graphic:  it  is  from  a  photograph  by 
Russell  and  Sons,  Baker  Street,  London. 


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Francis  Hb&bbrt  Holmbs. 

F.  H.  Holmes  has  been  taken  from  us,  to  the  great  sorrow 
of  all  who  have  known  him  daring  the  short  period  of  his 
Cambridge  life.  The  son  of  a  clergyman  who  gave  his  life  to 
the  service  of  the  Church,  and  died  young  after  severe  labours 
in  town  and  country  parishes,  he  was  bom  at  Stratton  in  the 
north  of  Cornwall  on  the  5th  of  March  1871.  After  his  father's 
death  he  was  removed  to  Preston  in  Lancashire,  and  educated 
first  at  Preston  Grammar  School,  then  at  Rossall,  and  last 
at  Hereford  Cathedral  School.  In  October  1889  he  obtained 
a  sizarship  at  St  John's,  and  at  the  same. time  a  Somerset 
[Hereford]  Exhibition.  He  came  up  purposing  to  read  for 
Mathematical  Honours,  and  to  take  Orders  afterwards.  It  is 
said  that  he  was  ever  a  popular  boy  at  School.  At  College 
his  bright  genial  nature  and  manifest  goodness,  in  which 
respects  I  hold  him  second  to  none,  had  gained  and  were 
gaining  him  the  attachment  of  good  friends.  He  was  fond  of 
all  sports  and  manly  pursuits.  As  his  Tutor  I  soon  learnt  to 
regard  him  with  affection  and  pride.  But  the  end  was  near. 
He  was  taken  ill  on  the  23rd  of  January  1890  with  an  attack  of 
the  prevailing  influenza,  accompanied  with  great  weakness  of 
the  heart.  After  little  more  than  three  days  of  suffering  he 
passed  away  peacefully  on  Sunday  the  26th,  His  death  was 
due  primarily  to  a  rare  and  incurable  disease,  and  medical 
opinion  pronounces  that  he  could  not  have  lived  in  any  case 
more  than  a  few  months  longer. 

W.  E.  Hbitland. 


Thb  Vbn  Archdbacon  Jonbs. 

The  Venerable  John  Jones,  MA.,  late  Archdeacon  of 
]Liverpool,  died  on  December  5,  1889,  in  his  ninety-ninth  year. 
Last  year  we  recorded  a  service  of  the  Church  in  Holy 
Orders  for  seventy-five  years,  in  the  case  of  Bartholomew 
£dwards.  Rector  of  a  rural  parish  in  Norfolk :  in  Mr  Jones 
the  Church  had  a  clergyman  who  served  for  thirty-five  years  of 
the  prime  of  his  life  in  a  great  Liverpool  parish,  and  for  thirty- 
two  years  of  the  remainder  in  a  less  arduous  parish  in  the 
outskirts  of  Liverpool,  but  with  the  additional  administrative 
functions  of  the  Archdeaconry  of  Liverpool, 


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Mr  Jones,  who  was  the  son  of  a  captain  in  the  army,  came  up 
to  St  John's,  and  took  his  degree  in  1815,  bat  his  name  does  not 
appear  in  the  Tripos.  He  was  ordained  to  a  curacy  in  Leicester, 
from  which  he  was  veiy  soon  called  away  by  Sir  John  Gladstone, 
who  came  up  to  Cambridge  (accompanied  by  his  son  William 
Ewart,  as  the  ex*premier  himself  relates),  to  consult  Mr  Simeon 
as  to  the  appointment  to  a  Liverpool  parish  then  vacant. 
Simeon  advised  Sir  John  to  hear  young  Mr  Jones  of  Leicester 
preach :  this  was  done,  and  Mr  Jones  was  offered  the  presenta- 
tion to  Seaforth,  from  which,  within  a  year,  he  was  promoted  by 
the  same  admiring  patron  to  one  of  the  great  town  churches  of 
Liverpool,  St  Andrew's.  Here  he  drew  together  a  large 
congregation,  the  church  being  extended  so  as  to  seat  1950 
people:  and  the  contributions  from  the  parish  to  the  various 
religious  societies  and  institutions  were  the  highest  in  the  town. 
After  thirty-five  years  Mr  Jones  removed  to  Christ  Church,  in  a 
seaside  residential  suburb  of  Liverpool  called  Waterloo,  where 
he  remained  until  his  death.  In  1855  he  was  appointed  Arch- 
deacon of  Liverpool,  which  was  then  a  part  of  the  immense 
diocese  of  Chester ;  and  fulfilled  his  duties,  if  with  no  great 
power  of  originating  fresh  work,  yet  with  unfailing  courtesy, 
sympathy,  and  tact.  He  was  a  moderate  churchman  of  a  good 
type,  and  loyal  to  church  order  and  discipline,  but  singularly 
free  from  narrowness  towards  others.  His  published  works 
consist  of  some  Lectures  on  the  Acts  of  the  Apostles,  Lectures  on 
the  TypeSy  The  Wedding  Gift,  and  Hints  on  Preaching. 


The  following  Johnians  have  died  during  the  year  1889 ;  the 
date  in  brackets  is  that  of  the  B.A.  degree. 

Rev  Walter  Godlin  Alford  (1867),  Perpetual  Curate  of  Henton,  Wells, 

Somerset :  died  Januaty  26,  aged  43. 
Thomas  Ashe  (1859) :  died  December  i8,  aged  53  (Eagle  xvi,  109). 
Rev  ChurchiU  Babington,  D.D.  (1843) :  died  January  12  {Eagle  XV,  362). 
Rev  William  Wyke  Bayliss  (1859),  formerly  Vicar  of  Stone,  Staflfordshire, 

Rector  of  Upham,  Hants :  died  suddenly,  December  5,  aged  55. 
Godfrey  Beauchamp :  died  February  11,  aged  20  (EagU  xv,  372). 
Rev  'William  Bovcott  (1865),  Rector  of  Burgh  St  Peter's,  Becdes :  died 

June  27,  aged  47. 
Rev  John  Brame  (1846),  formerly  Curate  of  Westleigh,  Leigh,  Lanes,  and 

Travelling  Secretary  of  the  Additional  Curates'  Society,  Rector  of  St 

Peter's,  Manchester:  died  April  29,  aged  73. 


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Kev  John  Edward  Bromby,  D.D.  (1832} :   died  March  4,  aged  80  (Ea^ 

XV,  484). 
Kev  George  Bivan  (1823),  formerly  (1833)  Vicar  of  Huttoft,  Lines:   died 

Febniary  16,  aged  88. 
Rev  Henry  John  Bull  (1841),  Rector  of  Roborongh,  North  Devon:   died 

February  28,  aged  70. 
Rev  George  Carpenter  (1843),  formerly  Vicar  of  Stapleford,  Wilts,  Curate 

of  Chadlington,  Oxford :  died  January  8,  aged  60. 
Rev  Thomas  William  Carwardine  (1841) :  died  January  26,  aged  70, 
George  Rochfort  Clarke  (1825),  Barrister  of  the  Inner  Temple,  an  active 

member   of  the  Christian  Knowledge  Society;    died  Sepember  t% 

aged  88. 
Francis  Woodward  Clementson  (1884),  of  the  19th  (Princess  of  Wales'  Own) 

Hussars  :  died  October  1 1,  aged  26. 
Rev  Henry  Cleveland  (1825},  Rector  of  Ronaldkirk,  Barnard  CastlCi  and 

J.P. :  died  July  27,  aged  86. 
Rev  Frederick  William  Portlock  CoUison,  B.D.   (1836):    died  Jnne  ai 

{EagU  XVI,  54). 
Rev  Frederick  Charles  Cook  (1831) :  died  June  22,  aged  84  (EagU  xvi,  52), 

Rev  ITiomas  Dalton,  B.D.  (1850),  Vicar  (1840)  of  Holy  Trinity,  Whitehaven. 

Hon.  Canon  of  Carlisle,  and  R.  D. :  died  March  9,  aged  83. 
Rev  William  Dorsett  (1865),  Curate  of  Ightfield,  Whitchurch:  died  May  17, 

aged  53. 
Rev  Bartholomew  Edwards  (18 11):   died  February  2i»  within  ten  days  of 

his  looth  year  {BagU  XV,  481). 
Rev  Kenneth  Macaulay  Eicke  (1883) :  died  April  24  [Eagle  xv,  499), 
Rev  Thomas  Saunders  Evans,  D«D.  (1839) :  died  May  15,  aged  73  {Ea^ 

XV,  477). 
Rev  Henry  L'Estrange  Ewen,  D.D.  (1855),  formerly  Rector  of  Ofibrd  Darcy. 

Huntingdon :  died  February  15,  aged  57, 
l^erbert  Knowles  Fuller,  M.B.  (1879),  Indian  Medical  Service:  died  October 

14,  aged  32. 
Rev  Frederick  Foster  Gough  (1847),  formerly  missionary  at  Niagpo,  China : 

died  June  I,  aged  64. 
Rev  Reginald  Gunnery  (1847),  Secretary  (1854)  of  the  Church  of  England 

Education  Society,  formerly  (1861)  Vicar  of  St  Mary's,  Homsey  Rxse, 

and  St  George's,  Worthing :  died  September  9,  aged  65. 

Rev  Peter  Francis  Hamond  (1867),  Vicar  of  South  Mimms,  Bamet:  died 

October  11,  aged  44. 
Rev  Octavius  James  (1841),  of  Clarghyll  Hall,  Alston,  Carlisle,  Rector  of 

Kirkhaugh,  Northumberland :  died  January  9. 
Rev  John  White  Johns  (1830),  Vicar  of  Crowan,  Camborne,  Cornwall:  died 

April  19,  aged  83. 
Ven  John  Jones  (1815),  Incumbent  of  Christ  Church,  Waterloo,  formerly 

Archdeacon  of  Liverpool :  died  December  5,  aged  99  {Eagle  xvi,  176), 
Rev  Benjamin  Hall  Kennedy,  D.D.  (1827) :  died  April  6,  aged  85  {EagU 

XV,  448,  475). 
Rev  George  Lambe  (1848),  formerly  Perpetual  Curate  of  Charleston,  Com« 

wall :  died  March  8,  aged  61. 
Richard  Longfield  (1824),  formerly  M.P. :  died  June  18,  aged  87. 
Henry  Murray  Loxdale  (1867) :  died  November  2,  aged  46. 
Edward  Miller  (1866),  Mathematical  Master  at  Clifton  College :  died  suddenly . 

May  14,  aged  53. 


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Rev  John  Wbite  McKinley  Millman  (1842},  Vicar  of  Sykehonse,  Yorks : 
cued  March  19. 

Sir  Paul  WiUiam  Molesworth,  Bart.  (1843)  :  died  December  23,  aged  68. 

Rev  Edward  Moore  (1835),  fonperly  domestic  chaplain  to  Lord  Brougham, 
Vicai  (1866)  of  SS  Mary  and  Nicholas,  Spalding,  and  Canon  (1870)  of 
Lincoln,  Chairman  of  Quarter  Sessions,  Spalding :  died  May  13,  aged  78. 

Rev  Thomas  Hany  Nock  (1875)  -  ^^  March  15  (Eagle  zv,  485). 

Rev  Stephen  Parkinson,  D.D.  (1845):   died  January  2,  aged  65  (EagU 

XV.  356). 

Rev  Edmund  George  Peckover  (1859},  "Wicxt  of  Horley,  Surrey:   died 

December  29,  aged  53. 
Aleunder  William  Potts  (1858) :  died  November  15  (Eagle  xvi,  57). 
Rev  John  Langdon  Ralph  (1871),  Rector  of  Aghancon,  Ireland:    died 

July  4,  aged  39. 
George  Rideout.  (1826}  I'died  January  5,  aged  85. 
Rev  Michael  Harris  Russell  (1880) :  died  November  30,  aged  35. 
James  Stuart  Sandys  (1880) :  died  August  31,  aged  32. 
Rev  Peter  Parker  Smith  (1837),  late  (1866)  Vicar  of  Stanwick  St  John% 

Darlington  :  died  March  20,  aged  77. 
Rev  Lawrence  Stephenson,  DJ>.  (1823) :   died  June  21,  aged  88  {Eagle 

XVI.  53). 

Rev  John  Stewart  (1844),  Rector  of  West  Derby  for  43  years,  and  Hon. 
Canon  of  Chester  and  afterwards  of  Liverpool :  died  June  22,  aged  67. 

Alfred  Henry  Say  Stonhouse- Vigor  (i8c6).  Barrister  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  Re- 
corder of  Penzance  and  anerwards  of  Southampton:  died  June  24, 
aged  57. 

Rev  George  Richard  Taylor  (1850),  Curate  of  Kedleston,  Derby :  died 
September  10. 

Rev  Thomas  Crofts  Ward  (1883) :  died  July  24,  aged  29  (Eagle  xvi,  55), 

Rev  Frederick  James  Wiseman  (1875) :  died  September  7,  aged  37. 

Rev  Richard  Mountford  Wood  (1833),  Rector  of  Aldbury,  Herts :  died 
December  20,  aged  78. 

Joseph  Woolley  (1840) :  died  March  24,  aged  72  (Eagle  xv,  489,  XTI,  75). 

Joseph  Yorke  (no  degree) :  died  February  4,  aged  83  {Eagle  xv,  372). 


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CAMBRIDGE  REVISITED. 


Yes,  here  in  the  solemn  old  College 

I  proudly  imagined  of  yore 
I  had  drained  the  full  fountain  of  knowledge 

And  classical  lore. 

0  happy  the  days  of  illusion. 
When  over  self-confident  youth 

Not  as  yet  has  been  brought  to  confusion 
By  hearing  the  truth! 

Many  changes  I  see  in  the  region 

Beloved,  which  I  visit  again; 
And  the  memories  of  old,  which  are  "  Legion,"^ 

Blend  pleasure  with  pain. 

1  hear  not  the  voices  uproarious 
Declaring  that  all  men  agree 

That  of  Boat  Clubs  the  best  and  most  glorious 
Is  the  L.  M.  B.  C. 

The  rooms  whence  of  old  I  was  greeted 

With  many  a  fnendly  "HoUo," 
Of  the  friends  of  my  youth  have  been  cheated 

By  men  I  don't  know. 

Ted  Boulnois,  Smith,  Barstow,  and  Paley; 

Sandys  and  Moss,  Graves  and  Stanwell,  and  "Smew," 
How  swiftly  the  days  passed,  how  gaily, 

When  my  comrades  were  you! 


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LAUDES  TEMPORIS  ACTI. 

Hic  olim  CoUegl  inter  venerabilis  umbras 

Ipse  mihi,  nimio  victus  amore  mei, 
Totam  Pirenen  epotavisse  videbar, 

Nee  mihi  Parnassi  mons  satis  altus  erat. 

O  fortunati  quorum  ambitiosa  juventus 
Nil  eget  extemae,  dum  sibi  fidit,  opis  ? 

Quos  populi  nondum  vox  servantissima  veri 
Concutit,  atque  ipsos  se  bene  nosse  jubet. 

Sed  loca,  quae  quondam  juveni  dilecta  reviso, 

Jam  video  multas  sustinuisse  vices; 
Quaeque  animo  surgunt,  velut  unda  supervenit  undam, 

Tristia  cum  dulci  mista  sapore  ferunt. 

Exaudire  licet  nullas  nunc  aera  voces 
Rumpere  discordi  terque  quaterque  sono; 

Dum  memorant  remis  nautas  nulli  esse  secundos 
Qui  Fundatricis  nomen  et  arma  gerant. 

Saepius  ex  illis  gaudebam  audire  fenestris 
Clamantes  socios  "  Arcule,  siste  pedem " ; 

Nunc  nova  progenies  successit,  et  inscia  nostri 
Expulit,  heu,  veteres  non  sine  fraude  viros, 

Barsto,  Faber,  Boulnoise,  Pales,  Orator  arenis 
Note  tuis,  Smintheu,  Carole,  Musce,  Gravis, 

Quos  ego  vobiscum  soles  fulgere  videbam! 
Quam  rapide  laeti  praeteriere  dies ! 

VOL.  XVI.  B  B 


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1 82  Cambridge  Revisited, 

0  where  are  ye  now?  on  what  ocean, 
Glebe,  platform,  or  Matterhorn  steep? 

Is  your  life  one  of  rest  or  commotion  f 
Some,  alas,  are  asleep. 

The  elm  which  inspired  my  best  sonnet. 
Which  supplied  me  with  odes  by  the  score, 

And  my  "lines  to  a  May  Term  pink  bonnet," 
Alas,  is  no  more^ 

The  ditch  which  I  hoped  to  leap  over 
(What  a  ducking  I  got  when  I  tried!) 

ILooks  as  big  as  the  Channel  at  Dover 
Though  not  twenty  feet  wide. 

The  pine  which  I  once,  aping  Remus, 

Leaped  over  with  infinite  ease 
Is  a  Titan,  a  tall  Polyphemus, 

A  Goliath  of  trees. 

And  I  too  am  changed,  eheu  tempora 
Mutantur  et  mtUor  in  illisi 

1  who  once  was  a  King  and  an  Emperor— 
With  Tom,  Dick,  and  Phyllis. 

My  biceps  is  less  by  two  inches 
Than  when  I  rejoiced  in  hard  rowing; 

My  chest,  once  a  sound  one,  now  flinches 
When  the  East  wind  is  blowing. 

I  could  once  run  a  mile  in  five  minutes, 

Now  like  an  old  tortoise  I  go; 
My  voice  was  as  sweet  as  a  linnet's. 

Now  I'm  hoarse  as  a  crow. 

When  I  think  of  the  boar's  head  at  supper. 
The  partridge,  and  pheasant,  and  hare 

In  the  game-pie,  it  needs  not  a  Tupper 
To  bid  me  "beware." 


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Laudes  Temporis  Acfi.  183 

O  ubi  nunc  estis,  socii?    Quas  scanditis  Alpes? 

Quae  vos  gleba  tenet  ?  quod  mare  ?  quodve  Forum  ? 
An  labor,  an  vos  urget  inertia?  sunt  quibus,  eheu, 

Dat  requiem  mortis  non  inimica  manus. 

Ulmus,  Apollinei  mater  mihi  carminis,  et  quas 
Mille  dedit  lyricos  composuisse  modos, 

Quae  bene  vestitam  et  Maio  bene  mense  placentem 
Leuconoen  cecinit,  quaeritur  ipsa — ^fuit* 

Rivulus  oravi  toties  quem  vincere  saltu, 
(Saltus  in  immundas  me  miserum  egit  aquas) 

Nunc  ipso  Oceano  mihi  latior  esse  videtur, 
Quamvis  viginti  non  hiet  ille  pedes. 

Quam  facili  toties  potui  transcendere  saltu 
Pinus,  ut  aequarem  facta  nefanda  Remi, 

Nunc  ingens  Titan,  Polyphemo  excelsior  ipso, 
Summa  giganteum  tollit  ad  astra  caput. 

Tempora  mutantur,  mutatis  mutor  in  illis; 

Non  ego  sum,  juvenes  credite,  qualis  eram : 
Sed  Greta,  sed  Davus,  sed  rustica  Thestylis  olim" 

£t  dominum  et  regem  me  coluere  suum. 

Hie  ego  cui  magnos  artus  remi  improbus  usus 
Auxit,  eosdem  artus  degenerasse  queror. 

Fortis  erat  quondam  pulmo;  nunc  horret  et  alget, 
Eurus  ubi  hibemas  asperat  ater  agnas. 

Olim  Nisus  eram  vel  fiilminis  ocior  alis; 

Nunc  testudineis  passibus  aeger  eo. 
Olim  lusciniae  poteram  certare  canendo 

Nunc  ego  vel  corvi  raucius  ore  cano. 

Si  venit  in  mentem  crustae,  qua  plurima  perdix 

Et  lepus  et  pavo,  regia  cena,  latent, 
Aut  apri  capitis,  non  dicta  paterna  reponens 

Est  opus  admoneat  Chcerilus  ille  "cave." 


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1 84  Cambridge  Revisited. 

I  have  long  bid  adieu  to  Quadratics; 

I  have  lost  in  Alcaics  all  skill; 
I  now  study  cures  for  rheumatics — 

Porous  plaster  and  pill. 

I  sleep  less,  I  eat  less,  I  drink  less, 

I  am  slower  of  limb  and  of  tongue, 
I  read  less,  I  write  less,  I  think  less, 

Than  when  I  was  young. 

Is  there  aught  that  I  ne'er  shall  surrender 

To  decay's  irrepressible  doom? 
Yes,  the  love  of  a  heart  true  and  tender 

Time  ne'er  shall  entomb. 

And  my  heart  beats  as  warmly  as  when  I 

First  wandered  an  innocent  lamb. 
Young  and  fresh  by  the  banks  of  the  fenny 

And  redolent  Cam. 

And  the  sight  of  the  dear  ancient  College 
Every  pulse  of  my  being  still  moves ; 

One  may  lose  wit  and  wisdom  and  knowledge. 
Yet  live,  if  one  loves. 

The  hopes  of  ambition  soon  perish; 

But  here,  on  our  Johnian  Pons^ 
I  feel  that  till  death  I  shall  cherish 

My  love  of  St  John's. 

"Arculus." 


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Laudes  Temporis  Actu  185 

Diximus  aBtemum  valeat  dudutn  Algebra;   dudum 

Me  lyra,  me  Musae  deseruere  meas; 
Nunc  studeo  ut  Craterus  mihi  det  fomenta,  paretque 

Pocula  quae  podagrse  sint  medicina  meae. 

Fit  minor  ipse  cibi,  potus,  somnique  potestas, 
Currere  nee  mihi  crus  nee  mihi  lingua  valet. 

Prisco  more  minus  scribo,  meditorque,  legoque; 
Si  quaeris  quare,   caussa  senecta  mihi  est. 

Ergo  nil  superest  quod  inexorabilis  aetas 
Non  rapiat  ?  sanctum  est  nil,  Libitina,  tibi  ? 

Scilicet  ingenuum  sinceri  cordis  amorem 
Tempus  edax  rerum  non  dabit,  Orce,  tibi. 

Olim  ego  pascebar  tener  et  nive  purior  agnus 
Cami  ad  arundineas  heu  redolentis  aquas: 

Sed  mihi  qui  teneris  olim  fervebat  in  annis 
Fervet  adhuc  fido  corde  superstes  amor. 

£t  mihi  CoUegi  caram  venerabilis  aedem 
Dum  tueor,  gelidus  sanguis,  ut  ante,  calet; 

Est  ubi  deficiunt  artes,  doctrina,  lepores; 
Vivit  adhuc  si  quis  dicere  possit  "amo." 

Spes  cito  nata  perit,  cito  quae  se  pascit  inanis 
Ambitio,  sed  in  hoc  ponte  moratus  ego, 

Hoc  scio,  CoUegi,  dum  spiritus  hos  regit  artus, 
Yivet  loannis  meque  animabit  amor. 

"  Arculus." 


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LYRICS. 

JSs  war  als  hdtt^  der  HimmeL 

The  sky  had  lulled  her  with  kisses, 

Or  so  to  my  heart  it  seemed, 
And  earth  in  her  bloom-tide  glory 

Needs  of  her  lover  dreamed ! 

A  breeze  came  over  the  cornfields. 
And  the  ears  at  its  touch  were  bowed ; 

Soft  whispers  stole  from  the  woodland, 
The  night  had  never  a  cloud! 

And,  lo,  the  soul  within  me 

Stretched  wide  her  wings  to  roam, 

And  flew  through  the  silent  places 
As  one  that  should  fly  for  home! 

After  ElCHENDORFF, 


S'  il  est  un  charmant  gazan. 

If  there  be  a  winsome  glade 

That  the  dews  have  blessed. 
Where  some  blossom  glory-rayed 

Greeteth  every  quest. 
Where  one  culls  in  ample  dower 
Jessamine  and  woodbine-flower — 
That  I  fain  would  make  the  bower 
Where  thy  foot  should  rest ! 


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If  there  be  a  loving  heart 

True  to  honour's  hest 
(So  as  rigour  claim  no  part 

In  that  loyal  breast). 
If  that  heart  with  noble  heat 
Only  for  brave  ends  doth  beat—* 
That  should  be  the  pillow  meet 

Where  thy  brow  should  rest! 

If  a  dream  of  love  there  be 

Sweet  as  roses  pressed. 
Whence  one  winneth  momently 

New  and  newer  zest — 
Dream  that  God  with  bliss  hath  sped. 
Dream  where  soul  to  soul  is  wed — 
That,  O  that  should  be  the  bed 

Where  thy  heart  should  rest! 

After  VicTOK  Hugo. 
G.  C.  M,  S. 


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CORRESPONDENCE. 

To   the  Editors  of  the   'Eagle: 

Gentlemen, 

You  were  kind  enough  to  print  in  your  Lent  Tenn 
number  last  year  an  appeal  for  a  fund  to  help  a  friend  of 
mine  and  myself  in  a  private  enterprise  of  entertaining  some 
London  boys  in  the  country.  The  fund  prospered,  and  we 
were  able  to  start  on  the  9th  of  August  with  thirteen  boys, 
partly  from  our  College  Mission  District,  and  partly  from  the 
Webbe  Institute,  Bethnal  Green,  for  Llanlliana  Bay  in  the  north 
of  Anglesea,  where  we  spent  a  most  enjoyable  fortnight.  An 
accurate  Balance  Sheet  accounting  for  the  expenditure  of 
something  under  /'40,  together  with  a  very  brief  outline  of 
our  doings,  has  been  sent  to  all  those  whose  interest  in  our 
excursion  took  the  form  of  pecuniary  help;  but  I  am  sore 
there  are  others  who  would  be  glad  to  hear  what  a  successful 
time  we  had,  and  if  you  will  again  give  me  space,  I  should 
like  to  speak  to  them  through  the  Eagle, 

The  discovery  of  suitable  quarters  for  our  party  was  a 
matter  of  considerable  difficulty.  We  knew  the  advantages 
of  Llanlliana  from  Mr  W.  T.  Grenfell,  an  Oxford  '  blue,'  who 
had  used  a  house  there  in  the  previous  year,  and  had  made 
arrangements  to  take  a  party,  similar  to  our  own  but  much 
larger,  to  the  same  house  last  summer ;  but  we  felt  disinclined 
to  go  so  far  from  London  if  we  could  find  a  home  far  up 
the  Thames  or  in  the  Eastern  Counties.  We  could  find  none, 
and  at  last  decided  to  follow  Mr  Grenfell.  This  arrangement 
made  matters  very  easy  for  us,  for  we  stepped  into  the  most 
homely  comfort,  and  had  free  use  of  his  complete  canteen, 
the  satisfaction  of  his  unconsumed  provisions,  and  the  more 
intimate  benefit  of  his  experience. 

Our  entire  party  numbered  seventeen,  and  included  two 
other  University  men  who  volunteered  their  services.  Our 
barracks  consisted  of  five  rooms,  two  on  the  ground  floor, 
and  three  above.  Downstairs  were  the  kitchen  and  'hall*; 
upstairs  two  dormitories  (one  for  the  boys  and  one  for  oar- 
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accommodate  twenty  boys  or  m^ore,  but  our  dining  table 
was  sufficiently  full  with  seventeen.  Furniture  was  hardly 
luxurious.  We  sat  on  empty  provision  cases,  and  slept  on 
straw-filled  sacks.  Our  bath  was  the  Atlantic.  In  regular 
order,  two  boys  got  up  to  fetch  water  from  the  spring  which 
was  near  at  hand,  and  to  light  the  fire.  When  these  prelimi- 
naries were  finished,  we  were  called  to  get  breakfast  ready. 

The  cooking  was  done  entirely  by  th©^  combined  Universities,, 
and  divided  into  four  departments,  namely  the  Porridge  Pot,  the 
Stew  Pan,  the  Frying  Pan,  and  the  Cocoa  Fountain.  Each  of 
these  departments  carried  with  it  various  responsibilities :  for 
instance,  the  duties  of  the  Master  of  the  Porridge  Pot  (a  Johnian, 
by  the  way)  were  by  no  means  ended  when,  he  had  risisn  three 
hours  before  everybody  else,  soaked  the  oatmeal,  burnt  his 
fingers  as  well  as  the  porridge,  and  ladled  it  out  d  la  Mrs 
Squeers  to  seventeen  hungry  ruffians;  he  had  yet  to  clean 
his  dominion,  scrub  it  with  sand-paper,  see  his  reflection  in 
it,  and  throw  things  at  the  Chancellor  of  the  Frying  Pau 
for  presuming  to  smoke  potatoes  in  it.  The  duties  of  the 
Stew-King  too  were  as  numerous  as  his  ingredients,  and 
resembled  those  of  an  amateur  antiquarian;  for  it  was  the 
Antique  that  this  indefatigable  collector  mostly  prized,  old 
ham  bones,  broken  meat,  or,  to  put  it  classically,  hcsUmum 
mtnutal,  with  a  few  mushrooms  and  robin  redbreasts  thrown 
in  to  give  a  modern  flavour.  There  were  two  parties  of  boys 
for  washing  up,  each  commanded  by  a  Captain,  who  was 
responsible  for  the  industry  of  his  gang. 

Such  was  the  constitution  of  our  little  republic.  Political 
deadlocks  did  occur  of  course.  "Too  many  cooks  do  some- 
times spoil  the  jam-roll,"  and,  to  quote  the  same  author, 
"you  can  take  a  street-boy  ta  the  water  but  you  cannot 
always  make  hinx  wash."  Apart  from  these  little  accidents,, 
incident  to  all  the  best  regulated  families,  things  went 
swimmingly. 

But,  with  all  due  deference  to  Dr  Jevons,  man  is  not 
only  "a  meat-cooking  biped."  Our  other  amusements  were 
many,  and  may  be  roughly  classed  under  two  heads — amuse- 
ments for  fine  days  and  mild  nights,  and  amusements  for 
wet  days  and  stormy  evenings.  Of  the  latter,  dormitory 
Cricket  and  Sing-songs  were  perhaps  the  most  successful.  I 
will  not  describe  the  intricacies  of  the  cricket.  Suffice  it  la 
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say  that  the  play  was  more  ingenious  than  scientific,  that 
the  highest  individual  score  was  28,  and  that  an  innings 
invariably  ended  with  a  clean  hit  through  the  window — *six 
and  out.*  Our  concerts  were  of  a  very  high  order.  The 
accompanist  had  a  good  ear  and  a  penny  whistle,  and  could 
satisfy  the  requirements  of  the  comic  or  sentimental,  and 
wind  in  and  out  amid  the  various  movements  of  the  jig. 

Of  outdoor  amusements  the  most  important  was  bathing. 
Several  of  the  boys  had  already  learned  to  swim,  and  the  rest 
we  instructed  on  the  suaviter  in  modo  fortiter  in  re  principle. 
I  cannot  say  conscientiously  that  they  took  to  the  water  like 
ducks,  but  still  they  always  said  they  liked  it — when  they  came 
out.  Boating  excursions  were  planned  as  frequently  as  bad 
weather  prevented  them.  Fishing  too  was  hardly  satisfactory: 
we  caught  one,  which  we  examined,  fried,  and  devoured  with 
fitting  solemnity;  but  we  were  always  hopeful,  and  unanimously 
agreed  that  there  were  more  fish  in  the  sea  than  ever  came 
out  of  it.  We  also  played  Cricket,  though  this  was  a  bit 
tame  without  windows  looking  on.  In  the  inter-' Varsity  match 
(the  Webbe  Institute  is  of  Oxford  origin),  Cambridge  won 
after  a  desperate  finish.  We  scrambled  with  catapults  over 
the  rocks,  visited  Regattas,  turned  back-somersaults  from  six* 
foot  walls,  ran,  jumped,  screamed  till'  the  astounded  natives 
recorded  that  we  were  Angli  sed  non  Angelil 

On  Sundays  we  shaved.  After  a  special  regulation -bathe 
we  wandered  over  the  cliffs  to  the  little  church  of  Llanbadrig. 
We  did  not  think  it  wise  to  affect  a  superiority  over  the  boys 
in  the  details  of  propriety.  As  on  a  weekday  we  could  be 
seen  munching  ponderous  buns  in  the  streets  of  Cemmaes,  so 
we  went  to  church  all  dressed  alike — blue  jerseys,  grey 
flannel  shorts,  bare  legs!  However,  the  Vicar  understood 
our  appearance,  and  invited  us  to  sing  in  his  choir,  which 
we  did  lustily  and  with  a  good  courage. 

Perhaps  nothing  contributed  so  much  to  the  success  of 
the  expedition  as  the  kindness  of  our  neighbours.  Farmers 
were  lenient,  coastguardsmen  and  boatmen  were  friendly. 
Ladies  sent  presents,  gentlemen  extemporised  Athletic  Sports. 
A  kindly  vicar  invited  us  all  to  a  gardep  party,  or  rather,  an 
"At  Home**  in  the  most  literal  and  genuine  sense  of  the 
phrase:  after  spending  the  afternoon  at  Cricket  and  Lawn 
Tennis  we   curled   up   our  legs   round  a   reftl   Welsh   hearth 


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surrounded  by  every  kind  of  good  cheer,  and  finished  up  the 
evening  with  a  dance  and  Auld  Lang  Syne. 

So  passed  our  fortnight.  Its  temporary  effects  upon  the 
bojrs  were  immediate  and  palpable,  in  the  shape  of  sunburnt 
faces,  robust  health,  and  country  spirits;  but  we  venture  to 
hope  that,  by  personal  intercourse  and  intimate  friendship 
with  South  and  East  London  boys,  we  may  make  some  lasting 
contribution  to  their  humanity.  And  in  this  hope  I  make 
bold  to  add  that  with  the  same  men  I  am  arranging  for 
another  fortnight  at  Llanlliana  next  August. 

May  I  repeat  my  last  year's  appeal,  and  trust  to  the 
generosity  of  your  readers  ? 

I  am,  Gentlemen, 

Yours  sincerely  and  loyally, 

R.   P.   ROJEVEARE* 

Si  Dumtan's  College,  Catford,  S.E. 


To  the  Editors  of  the  *  EagU: 

GSNTLBMBN, 

The  last  Eagle  was  very  welcome  to  me  as  a  former 
Johnian,  albeit  one  of  the  undistinguished  members  of  the 
great  College,  and  I  beg  to  congratulate  you  upon  the  longevity 
of  the  noble  bird.  Plainly  too,  his  plumage  increases  with  his 
years.  Long  may  he  live  I  I  find  in  No  xc  two  notices  of  the 
late  Dr  Potts  of  Fettes  College.  I  have  a  grateful  recollection 
of  Mr  Potts,  who  was  Master  of  one  of  the  Forms  through 
which  I  passed  during  my  rather  short  stay  at  Rugby  School, 
and  the  announcement  of  his  early  death  was  a  cause  of  deep 
regret  to  me,  as  it  must  have  been  to  all  those  who  had  met 
with  him.  Therefore  I  can  truly  subscribe  to  that  passage  in 
your  notice  which  describes  him  when  a  Master  at  Rugby.  He 
seemed  to  hold  the  balance  between  gentleness  and  severity 
with  remarkable  wisdom.  He  certainly  could  be  severe  when 
he  pleased.  One  who  witnessed  it  could  not  easily  forget  the 
righteous  contempt  which  he  showed  for  the  use  of  'cribs/ 
For,  on  the  occasion  to  which  I  refer,  having  discovered  that 
some  fellows  in  his  Form  were  in  the  habit  of  assisting  them- 
selves in  that  way,  he  demanded  who  the  offenders  were,  then 
sent  them  off  to  fetch  the  obnoxious  publications,  and  openly 
committed  them  to  the  flames. 


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Or  again,  when  we,  in  our  innocence,  *  sported '  oak-leaves 
on  Oak-apple  day,  he  manifested  his  annoyance,  told  us  to 
throw  them  away,  and  at  the  same  time  asked  us  rather  sharply 
whether  we  wished  the  return  of  the  Stuarts.  No  Sovereigns, 
said  he,  had  so  disgraced  the  British  throne  as  they.  He 
proceeded  to  recommend  us  to  read  CromwelVs  Letters  and 
Speeches, 

More  than  20  years  ago  there  appeared  a  new  version  of  the 
Psalms,  with  short  notes,  by  '  Four  Friends,'  published  by 
Macmillan.  This  production  was,  perhaps,  in  accordance  with 
the  most  advanced  scholarship  of  the  day,  and  certainly  was 
opposed  to  traditional  theories  as  regards  authorship  and 
interpretation.  It  discarded,  for  instance,  the  received  division 
of  the  Psalter  into  five  books.  But  whatever  may  be  the  value 
cf  this  volume,  it  was  understood  that  the  compilers  were  four 
of  the  Rugby  Masters,  and  that  one  of  the  four  was  Mr  Potts. 

With  your  permission  I  now  turn  to  what  I  consider  to  be 
two  inaccuracies  in  the  notices  (pp.  57,  85)  of  the  Eagle, 

At  p.  57  it  is  stated  that  Mr  Potts  "was  for  five  years  Master 
of  *  the  Twenty'  at  Rugby,  under  Dr  Temple. . .  .From  Rugby 
he  was  called  in  1870  to. . .  .Fettes  College." 

Now  if  the  last  date  be  correct,  which  I  do  not  question,  it 
is  certainly  not  the  case  that  he  was  Master  of  '  the  Twenty* 
for  *  5  years.'  For  during  the  year  1 866,  most  of  it  if  not  the 
whole  of  it,  I  was  in  his  Form,  which  was  known  as  '  Upper 
Middle  ii,'  1*.  e.  one  division  of  that  Form,  the  other  division 
being  ruled  by  Mr  Robertson,  formerly  a  Fellow  of  Jesus  and 
late  Headmaster  of  Haileybury.  I  don't  think  Mr  Potts  went 
to  *the  Twenty'  before  1868  or  1869. 

At  p.  85,  in  a  quotation  from  the  St  Jame^s  Gazette,  we  read: 
'  He  carried  with  him  from  Rugby  that  excellent  institution  of 
lay  sermons.' 

I  am  inclined  wholly  to  deny  this,  for  I  was  acquainted  with 
Rugby  School,  more  or  less,  for  ten  years  during  Dr  Temple's 
time,  and  was  a  humble  member  thereof  for  three,  and  I  never 
so  much  as  heard  of  such  a  practice  there.  Whatever,  there- 
fore, may  have  been  Mr  Potts'  authority  for  lay  sermons,  I  feel 
sure  that  he  got  no  precedent  from  Rugby. 

I  am,  yours  &c., 
W.  W. 


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Lent  Term,  1890. 

Last  year  we  had  the  pleasure  to  record  that  our  late  Fellow, 
Mr  Leonard  Courtney,  had  been  admitted  a  Member  of  Her 
Majesty's  Privy  Council.  On  New  Year's  day  1890  Sir  John 
Eldon  Gorst,  M.P.  for  Chatham,  an4  Under-Secretary  of  State 
for  India,  was  elevated  to  the  like  dignity.  The  Right 
Honourable  Gentleman  was  Third  Wrangler  in  1857^  and  was 
elected  a  Fellow  in  1857. 

The  Rev  Dr  E.  A.  Abbott,  formerly  Fellow,  and  late  Head- 
master of  the  City  of  London  School,  has  kindly  consented  to 
preach  the  Commemoration  Sermon  on  May  6,  1890. 

A  son  has  been  bom  during  his  year  of  office  to  Mr  Alderman 
Wace,  Mayor  of  Cambridge,  late  Fellow  of  St  John's,  and  a 
subscription  has  accordingly  been  set  on  foot  to  present  His 
Worship  with  a  'silver  cradle'  in  appreciation  of  the  'earnest 
and  able  manner  in  which  he  has  discharged  the  duties  of  his 
office.' 

R.  Horton  Smith  Q.C.  (Fourth  Classic  1856),  formerly 
Fellow,  has  been  elected  Professor  of  Equity  by  the  Council  of 
Legal  Education. 

The  Venerable  E.  H.  GifFord  D.D.,  Canon  of  St  Paul's  and 
formerly  Fellow,  recently  appointed  a  special  preacher  before 
the  University  of  Oxford,  was  on  December  5  admitted  by 
incorporation  to  the  degree  of  D.D.  Oxon. 

C.  Sapsworth,  B.A.,  Scholar  of  the  College,  First  Class  in 
the  Medieval  and  Modern  Languages  Tripos  1889,  has  been 
appointed  Professor  of  the  English  Language  and  Literature 
at  the  Polytechnicum,  Ziirich. 

The  Craven  Scholarship  has  again  been  won  by  a  Johnian, 
this  time  by  Walter  Coventry  Summers,  Foundation  Scholar. 
E.  E.  Sikes,  also  Scholar,  and  lately  one  of  our  Editors,  is 
honourably  mentioned  for  the  Chancellor's  Medals. 

The  Yorke  Prize,  for  an  essay  on  The  Equitable  Jurisdiction  of 
the  Court  of  Chancery,  has  been  awarded  to  Mr  D.  M.  Kerly, 
Fellow  of  the  College. 


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Ds  H.  H.  Scullard  (First  Class  Theological  Tripos  Part  II 
1889),  Foundation  Scholar,  formerly  of  the  Lancashire  College, 
and  Ds  A.  W.  Greenup  (B.A.  1889),  also  Foundation  Scholar, 
have  been  elected  to  Naden  Divinity  Studentships. 

Sir  John  HerscheFs  Prize  for  Astronomy  is  awarded  to 
G.  F.  Bennett  and  W.  S.  Dobbs,  equal. 

Ds  H.  S.  Mundahl  (B.A.  1887,  LL.B.'i888),  Whewell  Scholar 
in  International  Law,  has  been  elected  to  a  MacMahon  Law 
Studentship.  He  has  also  gained  a  number  of  valuable 
prizes  in  law  at  the  Inns  of  Court  Examinations. 

In  the  lists  of  Honours  awarded  at  the  B.A.  and  B.Sc. 
Examinations  of  the  University  of  London  this  term,  three 
Johnians  take  first,  places.  Ds  T.  A.  Lawrenson,  Foundation 
Scholar,  heads  the  list  in  Mathematics;  R.  A.  Lehfeldt,  also 
Scholar,  is  first  in  Physics,  with  a  University  Scholarship ;  and 
E.  W.  Macbride,  Baker  Exhibitioner,  is  first  in  Zoology,  also 
with  a  University  Scholarship. 

In  the  Second  Periodical  Examination  of  47  Indian  Civil 
Service  Candidates  selected  in  1888,  G.  Whittle  and  D.  H.  Lees 
of  St  John's  College  have  obtained  the  sixth  and  eighth  places 
respectively.  Mr  Whittle  was  first  in  Hindi,  but  was  ineligible 
for  the  Prize,  as  he  had  already  received  it  at  the  First  Periodical 
Examination.  Mr  Lees  was  first  in  Bengali,  second  in  Indian 
Law,  fifth  in  Political  Economy,  and  seventh  in  the  History  and 
Geography  of  India. 

Mr  G.  E.  Green  (Senior  in  the  Historical  Tripos  1885)  l^as 
been  appointed  a  Lecturer  in  English  History  at  Cheshunt 
College. 

Ds  W.  J.  Locke  (B.A.  1884)  has  been  appointed  a  Master 
at  Clifton  College. 

The  living  of  Great  Oakley,  Essex,  now  held  by  the  Rev  D.  S. 
Ingram,  was  offered  by  the  College  to  the  Rev  E.  W.  Bowling. 
But  a  memorial  having  been  presented  to  him,  signed  by  nearly 
every  parishioner  of  Houghton-Conquest,  Beds,  expressing  a 
hope  that  he  would  not  leave,  Mr  Bowling  decided  to  remain 
Rector  of  that  parish. 

H.  T.  E.  Barlow  M.A.  (B.A.  1885),  Naden  Divinity  Student, 
and  late  Tutor  at  Ayerst*s  Hall,  was  on  December  22  ordained 
Deacon  by  the  Bishop  of  Sodor  and  Man,  and  licensed  as 
resident  Chaplain  to  the  Bishop  at  Bishopscourt.  He  has  been 
appointed  Principal  of  the  Theological  School  just  organised 
by  Dr  Bardsley.  To  one  who  has  done  so  much  for  the  good 
of  the  College  in  many  ways,  and  who  has  been  the  valued 
friend  of  several  generations  of  Johnians,  the  Eagle  is  bound  in 
duty  to  send  its  heartiest  congratulations  and  good  wishes, 
though  it  parts  with'him  very  reluctantly  to  the  Isle  of  Man. 


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The  Rev  John  Mee  Fuller  (B.A.  1858),  formerly  Fellow,  has 
been  appointed  Examining  Chaplain  to  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury. 

The  Rev  Colin  Beaver  Bell,  a  son  of  Canon  Bell,  Rector  of 
Alderley,  Cheshire,  has  been  appointed  Precentor  of  Chester 
Cathedral  in  place  of  the  Rev  Charles  Hylton  Stewart.  Vicar  of 
New  Brighton.  There  was  a  very  large  number  of  candidates, 
and  Mr  Bell  was  of  those  who  were  selected  for  a  second  trial  of 
his  voice.  Mr  Bell  graduated  at  St  John's  College,  Cambridge, 
in  1884,  and  was  admitted  to  the  diaconate  by  the  Bishop  of 
Liverpool  in  the  former  year,  his  title  being  the  curacy  of 
Seaforth.  He  has  been  best  known  in  Liverpool  as  the  succentor 
of  the  pro-Cathedral,  where  he  has  worked  most  harmoniously 
with  Mr  Burstall.  He  has  a  splendid  voice,  and,  in  addition  to 
doing  much  to  sustain  and  improve  the  choral  services  at  both 
St  Peter's  and  St  Nicholas's,  he  has  worked  indefatigably 
among  young  people  at  the  latter  church,  and  been  successful 
in  forming  a  large  communicants'  guild.  Mr  Bell  was  always 
willing,  when  his  own  duties  permitted  him,  to  place  his 
services  at  the  disposal  of  the  parochial  clergy,  and  he  also  was 
always  ready  to  favour  the  company  at  dinners  or  society 
gatherings  with  a  song.  We  congratulate  the  Dean  and  Chapter 
on  having  found  an  admirable  successor  ta  Mr  Stewart,  not 
only  as  a  musician,  but  as  a  most  popular  cleric  with  all  sorts 
and  conditions  of  men.  Chester's  gain  is,  however,  Liverpool's 
loss.     {^Liverpool  Mercury^  December  10,  1889.) 

We  hoped  this  Term  to  present  our  readers  with  an  engraving 
of  the  new  organ-screen,  now  completed  ;  but,  owing  to  a  delay 
on  the  part  of  the  engravers,  we  have  had  to  go  to  press  without 
it.     If  all  be  well  it  will  appear  in  the  June  number. 

The  Rev  J.  H.  Lupton,  Sur-master  of  St  Paul's  School, 
Hulsean  Lecturer  in  1888,  and  formerly  Fellow,  was  on  Saturday, 
January  18,  elected  Preacher  to  the  Society  of  Gray's  Inn,  in 
succession  to  Dr  Stokoe.  Mr  Lupton  is  well-known  as  the 
author  of  the  Life  of  Dean  Colet^  and  a  contributor  to  the 
Speaker^ 5  Commentary, 

The  Rectory  of  Great  and  Little  Hormead,  Buntingford, 
Herts,  vacant  by  the  resignation  of  Mr  Bone,  has  been 
bestowed  by  the  College  on  the  Rev  George  Smith  (Tenth 
Wrangler  1869,  and  First  Class  Moral  Sciences  Tripos),  late 
Headmaster  of  the  Doncaster  Grammar  School. 

In  the  Figaro  of  December  21,  1889,  there  appear  under  the 
heading  of  Coming  Men,  a  biography  and  portrait  of  the  Rev 
T.  J.  Filmer  Bennett  M.A.  (B.A.  1875),  the  incumbent  of 
Curzon  Chapel,  Mayfair. 

Dr   Sandys   has  been   elected  President  of  the  Cambridge 
Philological  Society,  and  has  been  re-elected  Vice-Chairman 


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of  the  Cambridge  Branch  of  the  Hellenic  Society.  He  has 
also  been  appointed  one  of  the  electors  to  the  Prendergast 
Greek  Studentship. 

The  current  number  of  the  Btograpkisches  Jahrhuch  fkr 
Alterihumskunde  includes  a  short  sketch  of  the  lives  of  Dr 
Kennedy  and  Dr  Babington,  contributed  by  Dr  Sandys. 

The  Times  of  January  7  assigned  some  two  and  a  half  columns 
to  a  letter  by  Mr  H.  S.  Foxwell,  our  Lecturer  on  Political 
Economy.  The  letter  was  a  defence  of  the  Bimetallic  Theory 
against  an  attack  by  Mr  Giffen. 

It  is  worthy  of  notice,  by  way  of  addition  to  the  sympathetic 
account  of  Thomas  Ashe  contributed  to  the  present  number  by 
a  distinguished  Johnian,  that  the  articles  on  English  and  foreign 
poets,  in  that  excellent  library  companion  Chamber^  Book  of 
Days,  were  written  by  Mr  Ashe.  He  also  prepared  an  edition 
of  Coleridge's  Works  for  Messrs  Bell's  Aldine  series. 

Professor  Macalister's  great  Text-hook  of  Human  Anaton^ 
made  its  appearance  at  the  end  of  last  term.  The  Saturday 
RevieWy  not  usually  given  to  enthusiasm,  speaks  of  it  as  a 
*  splendid  work,'  and  like  epithets  have  been  applied  to  it  by  the 
medical  and  scientific  journals.  The  Saturday  Review  also 
notices  Professor  Tucker's  Supplices,  and  congratulates  him 
especially  on  his  translation,  which  is  'exact,  fluent,  and 
frequently  happy.'  The  author  *  has  certainly  made  a  solid 
contribution  to  the  scholarship  of  Aeschylus.' 

The  Cambridge  House  Magazine  comes  to  us  from  Halifax^ 
Nova  Scotia.  The  Head-master,  Mr  H.  M.  Bradford,  is  a  loyal 
Johnian,  and  we  must  congratulate  him  on  the  excellence  of  his 
magazine,  and  thank  him  for  the  kindly  reference  he  makes  to 
the  £agle, 

Mr  S.  Arthur  Strong  (First  Class  1884,  ^ind  late  Hutchinson 
Student)  is  preparing  an  edition  of  a  Hebrew  treatise  on 
the  religious  ceremonies,  feast  and  fast  days,  &c.,  of  Malabar, 
with  an  English  translation  and  notes,  from  the  MS  in  the 
Jews'  College,  London,  This  treatise  was  composed  between 
the  years  1768  and  1795  by  a  native  Jew. 

The  following  has  been  added  to  the  collection  of  Johnian 
portraits  in  the  new  Combination  Room. 

A  large  copperplate  engraving  of  "  Edvardus  Stilltngfleet. 
iSS*.  TheologicB  Professor^  Regies  Maiestali  a  sacris  Ecclesia 
Caniuariensis  et  Paulina  Canonicus*^  afterwards  Bishop  of 
Worcester,  died  1699.     Presented  by  Mr  G.  C.  M.  Smith. 

The  collection  of  portraits  is  now  very  considerable,  and 
many  of  those  mentioned  as  desiderata  in  the  December  number 
of  the  Eagle  (1888)  have  been  presented  by  members  of  the 
College.    The  following  are  still  lacking,  and  would  be  welcome 


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gifts,  if  any  of  our  readers  should  be  able  to  procure  them. 
Dr  Donald  Mac  Alister  will  be  happy  to  answer  any  enquiries 
about  these  or  other  portraits. 

Roger  Ascham  (1568),  Robert  Greene  (1592),  De  Vere,  Earl 
of  Oxford  (1604),  Henry  Constable  (1614),  Henry  Briggs  (1630), 
Randle  Cotgrave  (1634),  William  Heberden  (1801),  Sir  Thomas 
Watson  (1882). 

A  charming  collection  of  water-colour  drawings  of  Cambridge 
scenes,  by  Mr  John  Fulleylove,  is  on  view  at  the  Fine  Art 
Society's  Gallery  in  Bond  Street,  London.  It  includes  a  number 
of  views  of  St  John's :  the  Combination-room,  the  Third  Court, 
•  Wren's  bridge,'  and  the  river  aspect  of  the  Library  building 
being  perhaps  the  most  successful.  The  drawing  of  the 
CombinatioD-room  is  reproduced  in  black  and  white  in  the  Afi 
Journal  for  February,  and  Wren's  bridge  in  brown  in  the 
Building  News  of  February  21,  1890.  Light,  colour,  and 
architectural  effect,  are  the  most  striking  points  in  Mr  Fulieylove's 
style;  and  Johnians  who  visit  the  Gallery  cannot  fail  to  be 
struck  with  the  new  beauties  he  reveals  in  the  old  familiar 
scenes. 

Mrs  Ann  Fry's  Hebrew  Scholarship. — This  Scholarship 
was  founded  in  the  year  1844  by  the  Reverend  Thomas  Fry, 
Rector  of  Emberton,  Bucks,  in  memory  of  his  wife.  In 
December  of  that  year  Mr  Fry  granted  to  the  College  a  rent-' 
charge  of  £z'^  a  year,  issuing  out  of  a  small  farm  at  Bourne 
End,  Cranneld,  in  the  County  of  Bedford.  The  rent-charge 
was  to  commence  at  Mr  Fry's  death  and  to  be  made  payable  to 
a  Scholar  to  be  called  Mrs  Ann  Fry's  Hebrew  Scholar,  who  was 
to  write,  print,  and  publish  a  book  on  certain  specified  subjects 
connected  with  the  conversion  of  Jews  to  Christianity. 

Mr  Fry  seems  to  have  had  a  leaning  to  rent-charges,  for  in 
the  year  1846  he  sold  the  farm  out  of  which  the  rent-charge 
was  to  issue  to  a  Mr  Thon>as  Revis  for  £%o  down,  and  a  rent- 
charge  o(  jf^o  a  year  payable  to  him  during  life. 

Mr  Fry  died  on  March  22,  1860,  from  which  date  therefore 
Mr  Revis  became  liable  to  pay  the  charge  to  the  College. 

The  farm  is  only  39  acres  in  extent,  and  is  situated  in  a 
rather  remote  country  district,  so  that  even  in  the  best  of  times 
the  margin  between  its  letting  value  and  the  charge  payable 
to  the  College  could  not  have  been  very  great.  When  agri- 
cultural rents  began  to  fall  this  margin  disappeared,  and  some 
difficulty  was  experienced  in  obtaining  the  charge. 

On  the  death  of  Mr  Revis,  his  trustees  pressed  the  College 
to  purchase  the  estate,  and  this  appearing  to  be  the  best  course 
under  the  circumstances,  the  College  acquired  the  freehold 
of  the  farm  in  August  1888  for  £^0,  or,  roughly  speaking,  one 
pound  an  acre. 

The  buildings  and  fences  on  the  farm  were  in  a  very  ruinous 
state,  and  have  had  to  be  repaired,  the  money  being  advanced 
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by  the  College  to  the  trust.  It  will  be  some  time  before  the 
rent  received  from  the  farm  will  clear  this  debt  off,  and  the 
College  Council  has  accordingly  decided  to  suspend  elections 
to  the  Scholarship  for  the  present. 

At  the  election  on  March  4,  E.  W.  Macbride  and  G.  D.  Kempt 
were  elected  members  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Union 
Society. 

The  Carus  Greek  Testament  Prize  for  undergraduates  has 
been  awarded  to  Ds  A.  W.  Greenup,  Naden  Divinity  Student 
of  the  College. 

Dr  Donald  MacAlister  has  been  elected  Honorary  Vice- 
President  of  the  Japanese  Club  in  Cambridge.  The  President 
is  the  Japanese  >Ambassador,  Viscount  Kawas6,  who  visited 
Cambridge  and  dined  in  the  College  Hall  on  January  31. 

A  notice  of  Professor  Mayor's  Latin  Heptateuch  appears  in 
the  Literarisches  Centralhlatt  of  December  21,  1890.  The 
reviewer  says — 'Voran  steht  eine  schone  Widmung  an  den 
Cardinal  Pitra ;  ein  ebenso  schoner  Nachruf  auf  den  wahrend 
des  Druckes  Gestorbenen  schliesst  dcis  Werk.  Ein  Hauch 
classischen  und  christlichen  Friedens  weht  iiber  dem  Ganzen.' 

Messrs  Bums  and  Oates  announce  as  just  published — Officia 
et  Mtssae  Beatorum  Martyrum  Anglorum,  pro  aliquibus  locis  concessae^ 
et  a  S.  R.  C,  decreto  die  6  Aprilis  1889  approhatae :  B.  Jo.  Fisher 
(Westminster,  South wark,  Northampton,  Leeds,  and  Middles- 
borough)  .... 

The  Governors  of  the  new  Hymers  College,  Hull,  have 
chosen  for  its  coat  of  arms  that  of  St  John's  without  the 
bordure,  and  charged  with  a  bend  azure  bearing  the  three 
crowns  of  Hull  or.  The  crest  is  a  letter  H  in  the  centre  of  a 
white  York  rose,  encircled  by  a  laurel  wreath. 

The  preachers  in  the  College  Chapel  this  term  have  been — 
Mr  Caldecott,  Junior  Dean  (for  Mr  Lowther  Clarke,  Vicar  of  St 
Martin's,  York,  prevented  by  illness  from  attending),  Mr  Graves, 
Mr  J.  P.  Farler,  Vicar  of  St  Giles,  Reading,  late  Archdeacon 
of  Magila,  Central  Africa,  and  Mr  H.  R.  Whelpton,  Prebendary 
of  Chichester,  and  Vicar  of  St  Saviour,  Eastbourne. 

The  Choir  have  this  term,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  Organist, 
Dr  Garrett,  been  placed  in  a  bay  of  the  Chapel  nearer  the 
centre  than  heretofore.  The  change  appears  to  give  general 
satisfaction. 

Although,  as  we  recently  announced.  Bishop  Pearson  has 
resigned  his  See  of  Newcastle,  Australia,  his  resignation  has 
still  to  be  accepted  by  the  Bishop  of  Sydney  as  Primate.  As 
the  See  of  Sydney  has  been  vacant  for  a  year,  and  is  not  yet 
filled  up,  some  delay  must  still  be  expected  before  Bishop 
Pearson's  successor  is  appointed. 


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The  following  ecclesiastical  appointments  have  been  an- 
nounced : 


Name, 
Lrupton,  J.  H. 

Bower,  R. 

Cann,  J.  P. 
Eastman,  G. 


(1858)  M.A. 

(1868)  M.A. 

(1867) 
(B.D.  i86a) 


Ratcliffe,C.E. 8.(1876)  M.A, 
Stevens,  S.  W.    (i884)LL.B. 

Knight,  H.W.  (1887) 

Prichard,  R.  W.  (1858)  M.A, 
Lester,  J.  H.       (1868)  M.A. 


Matthews, 

A.  H.  J. 
Nnnns,  T.  J. 


Benoy,  J. 

Jackson,  P.  H. 
WaUdns,  J. 


(1887) 

(1857)  M.A. 
(1885)  M,A« 


from 

Sor-master,  StPanl's 
School, 

V.  of  St  Cuthbcrt, 
Carlisle, 

V.  of  Davidstow, 

R.  of  Draycott- 
Foliat, 

R.  of  Old  Charlton, 

Chaplain  of  Hunts 
Infirmary, 

C.  of  St  Andrew, 
Ancoats, 

C.  of  Neston, 

R.  of  South  Hack- 
ney, 

C.  of  Gumley, 


Preacher  at  Gray's  Inn 

Chaplain  to  the  Bishop. 

R.  of  Dunterton,  Devon. 
License  for  the  Dio.  of 

Rochester. 
V.  ofBickenhilL 
R.  of  Burley,  Ringwood. 

R.  of  St  Margaret,  Great 
Grimsby. 

P.  C.  of  Stoke,  Chester. 

R.  of  Lexden,  Col- 
chester. 

R.  of  Laughton,  Leic. 


Assistast-Missioner 

Walworth. 
R.  ofPatney,  Wilts* 
R.  of  Willingham. 


late  Hd. -master  of    V.  of  X^unceston« 

Helston  School, 
C.    of    St    Peter,    Assistast-Missioner    io 
Fulham, 
(1872)  M,A.    C.  of  Beaminster, 
(1869;  M.A.     R.  of  Gamlingay, 

The  following  members  of  the  College,  all  Bachelors  of 
Arts  unless  otherwise  stated,  were  ordained  at  the  Advent 
Ordinations : 

Diocese. 

Sodor  and  Man 

Peterborough 

Rochester 

Worcester 

London 

Winchester 

Newcastle 

Norwich 

Truro 


Namey^ 
Barlow,  H.  T.  E.  (M.A.) 
Penruddock,  F,  P.  (M.A.) 
Winckley,  A.  R.  T. 
Tudson,  A.  J. 
Lcgg,  W.  P. 
Nichohion,  W.  W. 
Crawshaw,  I. 
Beaumont,  J.  A. 
Macklin,  H.  W. 


Parish^ 
Chaplain  to  Bishop 
Narborough 
Ch.  Ch.,  Battersea 
Lower  Mi  t  ton 
All  Souls,  Langhamptou 
Capel 

St  Peter,  N.  Shields 
Lakenham 
St  Ives 

A  list  of  Cambridge  clergy  in  active  service  in  the  Colonies^ 
India,  and  Foreign  Countries  has  been  prepared  and  printed  for 
private  use  by  Mr  Caldecatt  as  one  of  the  Cambridge  Secretaries 
to  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel.  This  list  is 
compiled  from  •*  Crockford's  Clerical  Directory,"  1889  edition, 
and  therefore  actually  represents  the  situation  as  it  was.  at  the 
close  of  1888.  If  such  a  list  were  compiled  every  five  yeaxs 
say,  the  changes  would  be  shewn  sufficiently  for  most  purposes. 
As  it  stands,  the  list  answers  several  questions  of  interest.  It 
shows  the  order  which  the  colleges  occupy  in  supplying  the 
Clerical  and  the  Missionary  enterprises  of  the  Church  of 
England  with  their  workers.  There  was  good  reason  for 
expecting  that  St  John's  would  head  the  list,  but  it  will  be  a 
surprise  to  most  of  us  to  find  by  what  a  considerable  distance 
it  does  so.  As  there  is  no  particular  ground  for  supposing  that 
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Colonies  and  Foreign  Countries,  it  is  possible  that  the 
College  holds  a  similar  position  in  the  list  of  the  clergy  of  the 
Church  of  England,  at  home  and  abroad  together.  The  list, 
it  should  be  noted,  does  not  include  Chaplains  in  Europe,  or 
in  the  Army  or  N^vy,  nor  the  Episcopal  Clergy  in  the  United 
States,  nor  Clergy  engaged  in  work  on  purely  lay^tenures. 
The  numbers  supplied  by  the  Colleges  are — 


St  John's 

Trinity 

Corpus 

Christ's 

Jesus 

Caius 

Pembroke 


14 

Peterhouse 

13 

Non-asciipti 

12 

King's 

12 

Selwyn 

Downing 
Cavendi^ 

6 

Ayerst's 

75  Emmanuel 

S3  Clare 

36  Queens' 

25  St  Catherine's 

22  Sidney 

17  Magdalene 

15  Trinity  Hall 

The  above  with  one  Honorary  member  of  the  University 
make  a  total  of  341. 

The  list  of  members  of  St  John's  College  is  the  following, 
the  date  given  being  that  of  first  going  out — 

St  JohfCs  (75)* 
Pbaksok,  Bp.  Newcastle,  N,S.     Harvey,  H.  B.,  N.  Zealand,  18S7 


Wales,  1880 
Hose,  Bp.  Singapore,  1868 
Adams,  T.,  Canada,  1885 
Allnutt,  S.  S.,  C.  U.  M.  Delhi,  1879 
Alloway,  J.  W.,  N.  Zealand,  (?)  1876 
Andrews,  w.,  Japan,  1878 


Annstrong,  J.  B.,  N.  S.  Wales,  1885 
Armstrong,  W.,  Fredericton,  1857 
Ashe,  R.  P.,  Central  Africa,  1882 


Baldwin,  H.  G.,  Toronto,  1879 
Billing,  G..  Madras,  187 1 
Boddy,  S.  J.,  Archd.  Ontario,  (?) 
Body,  C.  W.  E.,  Toronto,  1881 
Bray,  W.  H.,  Chap.  C.  P.  India,  187a 
•Bromby,  T.  E.,  Victoria,  1858 
Brooksbank,  H.  A,  M.,  Victoria,  1888 
Browne,  W.  H.,  Persia,  1886 
Burges,  E.  T.,  Natal,  1880 
Butler,  A.,  Brazil,  1875 
Campbell,  H.  T.,  N.  S.  Wales,  1867 
Cane,  A.  G.,  Chap.  T 


. .  Bombay,  187 1 
Cassek,  J.  W.,  Chap.  India,  1879 
Cassels,  W.  W„  China  (Inland),  1887 
Chamberlain,  W.B.,Monte  Video,  1887 
Child,  C,  N.  S.  Wales,  1849 
Clive,  F.  B.,  Queensland,  1884 
Coombes,  G.  F.,  Rupertsland,  1883 
Cory,  C.  P.,  Madagascar,  1884 
Crossfield,  T.  T.,  Assam,  1884 
Du  Rieu,  W.  M-,  N.  Zealand,  1885 
•Eicke,  K.  M.,  Chap.  Punjab,  i888 
Fagan,  C.  C.  T.,  Chap.  Calcutta,  1873 
Farler,  J.  P.,  Archd.  C.  Africa,  1875 
Fowell,  R.  G.,  Huron,  Canada,  1885 
Gomes,  E.  H.,  Singapore,  1887 
Griffith,  E.  M.,  Ceylon,  1867 
Gwyther,  A.,  B.  Guiapa,  1875 
Hamilton,  H.  H.  S.,  N.  Zealand,  1876 

•  Deceased  since  |888, 


arvey. 
Hill,  F.  C,  Chap.  Madras,  1885 
Hodges,  H.  C,  M.  China,  1886 
Hulbert,  D.  P.  M.,  N.  S.  Wales,  1885 
Tones,  W.,  Toronto,  1863 
Kelley,  W.  S.,  C.  U.  M.  Delhi,  1886 
King,  R.  R.,  N.  S.  Wales,  l88a 
Kingston,  G.  M.,  Toronto,  1884 
Macklem,  T.  C.  S.,  Toronto,  1885 
Mathews,  A.p.,  Archd  .Mauritius,  1863 
Midgley,  J„  Brazil,  1873 
MiUer,  E.  F.,  Ceylon,  1874 
O'ReiUy,  N.  S.  Wales,  1881 
Page,  R.  L.,  Bombay,  1875 
Plant,  Melanesia,  1883 
Poole,  F.  S.,  S.  Australia,  1869 
Power.  C.  W.,  N.  S.  Wales,  1878 
Reece,  W.,  Barbardos,  1882 
Ryland,  R.  H.,  Bloemfontein,  1884 
Scadding,  H.,  Toronto,  1837 
Shears,  E.  H.,  Archd.  Maritzborgi 

S.  Africa,  1872 
Smith,  D.,  B.  Guiana,  1875 
Squires,  R.  A.,  Bombay,  1870 
Storrs,  R.  A.,  Chap.  Punjab,  1881 
Sweeting,  G.  H.,  W.  Australia,  1858 
Symons,  C.  J.  F.,  M.  China,  1887 
Taylor,  J.  rf.,  Chap.  Calcutta,  1877 
Tucker,  W.  F.,  Queensland,  i88i 
Tuckey,  H.  E.,  N.  Zealand,  1887 
Walker,  J.  M.,  Chap.  Madras,  1871 
Walker,  K.  H.,  Equat.  Africa,  1887 
Walker,  T.,  Madras,  188? 
Webb,  A  S.,  N.  Zealand,  1884 
Williams,  A.  F.,  N.  Zealand,  1886 
Williams,  H.  A.,  Chap.  Madras,  1874 
Williams,  T.,  Lahore,  1873 
Wincklev,  C.  R.  T„  Chap.  Calcutta 

1888 


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Mr  Caldecott  will  be  happy  to  forward  a  copy  of  the  complete 
list  to  any  one  wishing  to  possess  one,  so  long  as  his  supply 
will  last. 

The  Simeon  Trustees  have  appointed  the  Rev  Thomas  Edwin 
Hamer  (B.A.  1874),  M.A.,  to  the  Rectory  of  Darlaston. 
Mr  Hamer  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Church  Pastoral  Aid 
Society  for  the  East  Midland  District. 

The  Rev  R.  R.  Kirby  M.A.,  (B.A.  1852),  has,  from  ill-health, 
resigned  the  living  of  Chapel-Allerton  on  the  outskirts  of  Leeds, 
with  cordial  expressions  of  regret  from  his  parishioners. 

The  Rev  J.  Watkins  M.A.,  Rector  of  Gamlingay,  after  having 
thoroughly  reorganised  one  large  rural  parish  in  Cambridgeshire 
is  called  by  the  Bishop  to  begin  work  over  again  in  Willingham, 
which  has  for  many  years  had  an  absentee  rector.  Mr  Watkins 
was  one  of  the  late  Bishop's  most  trusted  workers,  and  it  is 
pleasant  to  see  him  called  upon  again  for  a  new  task,  although 
the  change  involves  an  up-hill  life  to  himself  for  some  years 
to  come. 

In  a  series  of  articles  in  the  Church  Review  on  *  Octogenarian 
Worthies  *  there  is  a  sketch  of  a  former  Fellow,  the  Ven  Edward 
Cust,  Archdeacon  of  Richmond,  Yorks,  who  took  his  degree 
in  the  same  year  as  Dr  Kennedy,  and  rowed  with  Dean  Merivale 
in  the  first  eight-oar  ever  seen  on  the  Cam.  The  Archdeacon 
is  described  as  popular  alike  with  clergy  and  laity. 

The  Corporation  of  the  City  of  London  has  granted  a 
pension  of  /  400  a  year  to  Dr  Abbott,  on  his  retirement  from  the 
Headmastership  of  the  City  of  London  School. 

Dr  Taylor,  our  Master,  has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the 
General  Board  of  Studies ;  Mr  Mullinger  an  Examiner  for  the 
Lightfoot  Scholarships ;  Mr  Graves  an  Adjudicator  of  the 
Members'  Latin  Essay  Prize ;  Mr  Haskins,  Mr  Smith,  and  Mr 
Caldecott  Examiners  for  the  Previous  Examination;  Mr  Wace 
for  the  General,  and  Mr  Caldecott  for  the  Special  Examination  in 
Logic ;  Mr  Bateson  a  member  of  the  University  Press  Syndicate ; 
Professor  A.  Macalister  a  member  of  the  Museums  and  Lecture 
Rooms  Syndicate ;  Mr  Marr  an  Examiner  of  Students  at  Local 
Lectures  Centres. 

The  entrance  Scholarships  and  exhibitions  were  in  December 
awarded  as  follows — Foundation  Scholarships:  jfSo,  R.  P.  Cum- 
mings,  Christ's  Hospital;  and  R.  Sheepshanks,  Winchester 
College,  /'eo,  H.  P.  Jones,  Felsted;  and  T.  A.  Nicklin, 
Shrewsbury,  /'so,  J.  B.  Dale,  Liverpool  Institute ;  L.  Horton- 
Smith,  Marlborough;  C.  J.  Leftwich,  Christ's  Hospital;  and 
C.  F.  Hore,  Christ's  Hospital.  Minor  Scholarships :  £S^>  ^'  ^• 
Hutton,  Daventry;  W.  M'Dougall,  Owens  College;  H.  S. 
Moss,  Rugby;  and  H.  Sargent,  Wellingborough.  Exhibitions: 
A.  £.  English,  Rugby ;  R.  B.  Harding,  Wolverhampton ;  and 
J.  H.  Hardwick,  Lancaster. 


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The  following  books  by  members  of  the  College  are 
announced : — Problems  in  the  New  Testament  (Rivingtons),  by  the 
Rev  W.  Spicer  Wood;  Greek  Syntax  and  Notebook  (Spottiswoode), 
by  the  Rev  T.  B.  Rowe  ;  Practical  Hints  on  Reading  the  Liturgy 
(Elliot  Stock),  by  the  Rev  J.  H.  Whitehead;  VirgiVs  Aendd 
hook  Hi  (Macmillan),  by  T.  E.  Page;  Primer  of  Roman  Literature 
(Macmillan),  by  Dr  A.  S.  Wilkins;  Geometrical  Conies  Part  I 
(Macmillan),  by  the  Rev  J.  J.  Milnes  and  R.  F.  Davis; 
Chronological  Outlines  of  English  Literature  (Macmillan),  by 
F.  Ryland ;  Dynamics  of  Particles  and  Solids  (Macmillan),  by 
Principal  W.  M.  Hicks ;  The  Fables  of  Aesop  first  printed  by 
William  Caxion  in  1484  (David  Nutt),  edited  and  induced  by 
Joseph  Jacobs;  The  Rotifera  or  Wheel  Animalcules  (Longmans), 
by  Dr  C.  T.  Hudson  and  P.  H.  Gosse;  Demosthenes  against 
Leptines  (University  Press),  by  Dr  Sandys. 

JOHNIANA. 

Old  Trinity  [College,  Dublin]  men  may  be  interested  to  know  that  the 
Brst  Fellows  were  Luke  Chaloner,  William  Daniel,  James  Hamilton,  and 
James  FulleAon.  In  the  Royal  Charter  there  were  also  the  names  of  Heniy 
Ussher  and  Lancelot  Monie.  The  first  Scholars  were  Abel  Walsh,  James 
Ussher,  and  George  Lee.  The  first  Provost  was  Archbishop  Adam  Loftus ; 
and  the  first  Chancellor  was  Cecil  Lord  Burleigh,  who  died  in  1598,  and 
was  succeeded  by  Robert  Earl  of  Essex.  Travers  was  sworn  in  as  Provost 
on  December  5,  1595,  and  his  salary  was  fixed  at  /40  a  year;  but  at  the 
death  of  Burleigh,  Travers  left  Dublin  and  returned  to  England ;  and  the 
College  remained  without  a  head  till  160 1,  when  the  increase  in  the  Govern- 
ment allowances,  confirmed  by  the  Queen,  enabled  the  body  to  invite  Henry 
Alvev,  Fellow  of  St  John's  College,  Cambridge.  He  remained  in  Dublin 
till  the  end  of  the  following  March,  1602.  In  1604,  the  College  broke  up 
in  consequence  of  the  plague  which  then  raged  in  Dublin.  Alvey,  who  had 
been  in  England,  returned  to  the  city  in  June  1605,  and  resided  in  the 
college  till  1609,  when  he  vacated  the  Provostship, 

Belfast  News-Utter :  December  26,  1889. 

Beginning  at  the  beginning  [of  the  <  Tudor  Exhibition ']  let  us  say  that 
the  curious  Gothic  pictures  are  likely  to  attract  less  attention  than  their 
art  or  historic  interest  or  subjects  deserve.  No.  i  shows  the  pyramidical 
headdress  or  widow's  coif  the  Lady  Margaret  (bom  Beaufort),  Countess  of 
Richmond  and  Derhy^  wore  in  later  life.  The  mother  of  Henry  VII  is 
best  represented  by  the  remarkable  statue  on  her  tomb  in  Westminster 
Abbey,  the  face  of  which  is  due  to  a  cast  from  nature.  This  picture  is 
probabljr  a  copy,  of  comparatively  late  date,  of  an  earlier  portrait,  and  is 
not  particularly  faithful.  A  much  better  likeness  is  Lord  Braye's  version. 
No.  33,  which  distinctly  reproduces  the  effigy,  and  is  very  successful.  No. 
23,  fiom  St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  proves  the  fidelity  of  the  statue, 
even  to  the  countess's  withered  hands,  wnich  in  the  bronze  are  extremely 
fine.  Very  interesting  indeed  is  this  portrait,  which  shows  her  seated  under 
a  golden  cloth  of  state  brocaded  with  her  arms,  holding  upon  a  prie-dieu 
a  book  of  prayers;  in  the  back-ground  a  stained-glass  window  retains  the 
Tudor  shield.  The  face  has  been  "restored,"  and  has  lost  something  of 
the  dry  style  and  ascetic  intensity  of  the  period ;  its  carnations  are  now  forced 
and  heavy.  The  painting  of  the  cloth  of  gold  with  real  metal,  the  pattern 
being  drawn  in  brown,.suggests  that  a  German  artist  may  have  been  employed. 

No  group  of  portraits  here  is  more  interesting  than  that  which  depicts, 
or  pretends  to  depict,  the  Lady  Margaret's  only  son  Henry  VII.    Among 


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these  No.  2,  from  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  is  notable  for  its  sad  intelli- 
gent face,  which  indicates  abundant  caution  and  resolution.  It  is  not  so 
like  the  picture  of  the  aged  king  in  the  National  Portrait  Gallery,  which 
came  from  Le  Mans  in  1876,  as  other  specimens  now  before  us.  In  this 
case,  as  in  that  of  the  Lady  Margaret,  the  standard  authority  for  the  likeness 
is  at  Westminster,  the  tomb  by  Torrigiano,  which  gives  the  king's  expression 
and  costume  down  to  small  details,  and  is  doubtless  the  parent  of  many 
pictures  less  precious  than  the  tenderly  painted,  brilliant,  and  sympathetic 
No.  22,  lent  by  Earl  Browntow  and  attributed  to  Mabuse.  It  is  in  all 
respects  worthy  of  so  strong  a  hand  as  his,  but  its  technique  does  not  recall 
him  to  our  mind.  A  charming  work  of  art,  it  excels  most  of  its  neighbours 
in  purity,  brightness,  and  that  rarest  of  all  qualities  at  the  period  in  question, 
a  splendid  coloration.  Its  veracity  is  beyond  question,  and  it  seems  to  have 
escaped  the  restorer  more  successfully  than  the  picture  in  the  National 
Portrait  Gallery,  which  is  by  no  means  intact.  No.  18,  Sh  H.  Bedingfeld's, 
is  later,  and  by  an  inferior  artist. 

The  Atkenetum  :  January  4,  1890. 

The  chief  interest  of  the  Tudor  Exhibition  lies  in  the  collection  of 
Holbein's  pictures  which  is  assembled  there.  An  interesting  cartoon  in 
monochrome,  a  portrait  of  Henry  VIII,  is  lent  by  Lord  Hartington  from 
Hardwicke.  The  Queen  has  sent  a  valuable  series  of  drawings.  An  admi- 
rable portrait  of  Bishop  Fisher  is  also  a  favourable  specimen  of  Holbein's 
work.  An  ugly,  but  interesting,  picture  by  an  earlier  artist  is  that  of  Lady 
Margaret,  mother  of  Henry  VII,  and  founder  of  St  John's  College,  Cam- 
bridge, from  whose  powerful  features  one  may  surmise  from  whom  the 
Tudots  got  their  brains. 

Birmingham  Gazette:  January  i,  1890. 

The  Rev  C.  M.  Roberts  having  accepted  the  living  of  Brinckley,  Cam- 
bridge, in  the  gift  of  St  John's  College,  will  retire  from  the  head-mastership 
of  Monmouth  Grammar  School  at  Easter.  During  Mr  Roberts's  tenure 
of  office  Monmouth  has  risen  to  the  front  rank  as  a  school,  for  rowing  and 
mathematics ;  one  of  its  most  distinguished  pupils  in  the  latter  science  being 
Mr  R.  R,  Webb,  Fellow  of  John's  and  Senior  Wrangler  in  1872,  who  now 
so^  fully  occupies  Dr  Routh's  place  as  Wrangler-Maker,  The  head-master- 
ship of  Monmouth  is  in  the  gift  of  the  Haberdashers*  Company. 

St  James's  Gazette:  January  2,  1890. 

General  Medical  Council, '-'The  vacancy  caused  by  the  regretted  retire- 
ment of  Professor  Humphry,  after  twenty  years*  service  on  the  General 
Medical  Council,  was  filled  up,  not  without  a  contest,  by  the  election  of 
Dr  Donald  MacAlister,  of  St  John's  College,  for  a  period  of  five  years.  The 
almost  unanimous  support  accorded  to  the  successful  candidate  by  the 
resident  members  of  the  medical  faculty,  and  bv  a  large  majority  of  the 
professors  and  other  resident  graduates,  justifies  the  supposition  that 
I>r  MacAlister  is  regarded  as  representing  the  progressive  spirit  which,  in 
a  decade  or  so,  has  transformed  Cambridge  from  one  of  the  smallest  into 
one  of  the  largest  medical  schools  of  England. 

British  Medical  Journal :  December  28,  1889. 

Indeed  it  must  have  been  hard  for  the  weak  and  sickly- the  lad  of  feeble 
frame  and  delicate  organisation— to  stand  that  rugged  old  Cambridge  life. 
••  College  rooms "  in  our  time  suggest  something  like  the  ne  plus  ultra 
of  aesthetic  elegance  and  luxury.  We  find  it  hard  to  realize  the  fact  that 
for  centuries  a  Fellow  of  a  college  was  expected  to  have  two  or  three  chaniber 
fellows  who  shared  his  bedroom  with  him ;  and  that  his  study  was  no  bigger 
than  a  study  at  the  schoolhouse  at  Rugby,  and  very  much  smaller  than  a 
fourth  form  boy  enjoys  at  many  a  more  midem  public  school.  At  the 
hostels,  which  were  of  course  much  more  crowded  than  the  colleges  were, 
a  separate  bed  was  the  privilege  of  the  .ew.    What  must  have  been  the 


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condition  of  those  serai-licensed  receptacles  for  the  poorer  students  in  the 
early  times,  when  we  find  as  late  as  1598  that  in  St  John's  College  there 
were  no  less  than  seventy  members  of  the  College  *< accommodated'*  (!)  in 
twenty-eight  chambers.  This  was  before  the  second  court  at  St  John's  was 
even  begun,  and  yet  these  seventy  Johnians  were  living  in  luxury  when  com- 
pared with  their  predecessors  of  two  hundred  years  before. 

Dr  Augustus  Jessopp :  The  Coming  of  the 
Friars,  pp.  295,  296  (1889). 

The  distinguishing  mark  sanctioned  by  the  late  Bishop  of  London  in  1884* 
for  students  of  the  London  College  of  Divinity  (St  John's  Hall,  Highbury) 
is  a  border  or  binding  of  scarlet  not  exceeding  one  inch  in  breadth  on  the 
inner  side, or  a  quarter  of  an  inch  on  the  outside  of  the  hood.  Of  course 
it  may  be  narrower.  The  colour  was  chosen  in  memory  of  the  first  Principal 
of  the  college,  the  Rev  T.  P.  Boultbee,  LL.D.,  sometime  Fellow  of  St  John's 
College,  Cambridge,  scarlet  being  one  of  the  colours  of  that  college. 

Calendar  of  St  yohn's  Hail^  Highbury. 

It  has  always  been  understood  that  Lord  Dorset  sent  Prior  to  Cambridge. 
[In  his  Selected  Poems  of  Matthew  Prior]  Mr  Dobson  shows  us,  on  tiie 
authority  of  the  Montague  MS,  that  he  did  nothing  of  the  sort ;  but  that,  on 
the  contrary.  Prior  went  to  St  John's  College  in  direct  opposition  to  his 
patron's  wish.  These  are  small  matters,  no  doubt ;  but  in  literaiy  biography 
a  great  deal  often  hinges  upon  a  trifle,  and  no  fact,  however  unimportant 
it  may  seem,  ought  ever  to  be  disregarded. 

PaUMall  Gauette:  February  7,  1890. 

We  give  in  this  number  reproductions  in  ink-photo  of  two  of  Mr  Fulley- 
love's  charming  series  of  water-colours  of  Cambridge  which,  as  before  noticed^ 
are  now  being  exhibited  at  the  Fine  Art  Society's  Galleries.  These  of  course 
do  not  convey  the  charm  of  colour  which  belongs  to  many  of  these  drawings, 
to  none  more  than  to  that  of  **  The  Conduit "  which  is  such  a  well-known 
object  in  the  centre  of  the  great  court  of  Trinity  College.  Architecturally 
perhaps  "Wren's  Bridge,"  giving  access  to  St  John's  College  from  "the 
backs,"  is  the  more  interesting;  with  the  gate  and  gate-piers  it  forms  an 
effective  contrast,  in  its  quiet  stateliness  of  elect,  with  the  more  homely  and 
domestic  character  of  the  residential  buildinjps. 

It  is  curious  to  see  the  Gothic  feature  of  the  sloped  set-off  in  the  bridge 
buttresses,  introduced  here  for  practical  reasons  as  the  easiest  way  of  con- 
necting the  necessary  cut-water  form,  on  the  up-stream  side  of  the  pier,  with 
the  pikster  above. 

Building  News  :  February  21,  1890. 

Medical  Examinations,  December  1889. 


Chemistry  and  Physics, 
Elementary  Biology, 

Pharmacy, 

Anatomy  and  Physiology, 


First  M.B. 
Bennett,  N.  G. 
Brown,  W.  L. 
Burnett 
Haigh 

Brown,  W.  L. 
Cowie 
Jackson,  G.  C. 

Second  M.B. 

Burton,  F.  C. 

Cameron 

Godson,  A.  H. 

Goodman,  C. 
Ds  Evans,  T.  H. 
Ds  Godson,  J.  H. 


Ds  Hin,  A. 

Jackson,  G.  C. 
Waldon 

King,  T.  P. 
Turner,  D.  M. 
Waldon 


Langmore 
Sandall 
Ds  Young,  F.  C. 


Ds  Parry 
Ds  Ware 


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Third  M.B. 
Surgery  etc.  Ds  KeUctt  Ds  Wright,  J.  C. 

Medicine  etc.  Ds  Curwen  Ds  Francis 

Ds  Drysdale  Wadeson 

Mag  Edwards  Ds  Wait 

Admitted  to  the  Degree  op  M.B. 

Drysdale,  J.  H.  Wadeson,  E,  A, 

Francis,  H.  A.  Wait,  J.  A. 

Admitted  to  the  Degree  op  B.C. 

Drysdale,  J.  H.  Wadeson,  E.  A* 

Francis,  H.  A.  Wait,  J.  A. 

Dr  J.  B.  Huny 

Lady  Margaiibt  Boat  Club. 

The  Club  has  suffered  a  great  disappointment  this  Term 
through  H.  £.  H.  Coombes  not  gettiixg  his  'blue,'  and  all  the 
more  so  because  very  favourable  criticisms  of  his  rowing  appeared 
in  the  papers  at  the  time  of  the  'Varsity  Trials  last  Term* 

J.  Backhouse,  the  Secretary,  went  down  at  the  beginni&g 
of  this  Term,  which  made  a  change  of  officers  necessary.  At 
a  general  meeting  held  on  February  4th  the  following  were 
elected ;  Secretary — ^J.  A.  Cameron ;  First  Lent  Captain — ^A.  S* 
Roberts ;  Second  Lent  Captain — G.  P.  Davys. 

The  following  crew  was  entered  for  the  getting-on  races  :— 

su  lbs. 

Bow  G.  B.  Buchanan    •    9  3 

2  W.  C.  Laming 10  9 

3  E.  A.  Hensley  «... 11  i 

4  W.W.  Haslett 12  8 

5  H.  G.T.Jones 12  a 

6  T.H.C.Fcgan ii  6 

7  J.A.Telford 9  12 

^^7*1?  A.  W.  Flux 10  8 

Cox  H.  A.  King    •  •  • 9      a 

Th^  turned  out  a  fast  crew,  beating  King's  Second  by  sixty 
yards,  and  Pembroke  Third  by  twenty-five.  In  the  final  heat 
they  met  Selwyn  Second  and  were  only  beaten  by  two  seconds 
after  a  magnificent  race. 

Owing  to  influenza  and  a  variety  of  other  circumstances,  the 
twaLent  boats  had  great  difficulties  to  cope  with  during  practice. 
However,  owing  to  their  great  keenness,  they  turned  out  very 
fair  crews,  though  unfortunately  not  so  successful  as  those  of 
last  year. 

The  First  boat  was  coached  by  H.  E.  H.  Coombes  and 
R.  H.  Forster,  the  Second  by  R.  H.  Forster. 

On  the  first  day  the  Second   boat,  after  being  their  full 

distance  behind  Magdalene  up  to  Ditton,  rowed  them  down  in 

the  I>ong  Reach,  and,  putting  on  a  good  spurt  at  the  Railway 

Bridge,  bumped  them  at  Morley's  Holt.    They  were  unable  to 

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make  a  bamp  in  the  First  Division,  Jesus  Second  bamping 
Cains  Second  above  them. 

The  First  boat  rowed  over  head,  keeping  well  away  from 
Coipus. 

On  the  second  d^y  the  Second  boat  rowed  over  head  of  the 
Second  Division,  but  again  failed  to  secure  a  position  in  the 
First. 

The  First  boat  had  a  most  exciting  race  with  Trinity  Hall 
First,  who  got  close  to  them  about  the  Willows,  and  at  the 
Railway  J3ridge  were  barely  a  foot  off  them. 

On  the  third  day  the  Second  boat  were  pursued  by  King's, 
who  got  within  a  yard  of  them  soon  after  Ditton.  Our  men 
^tuck  to  it  w;th  Johnian  pluck  and  held  4way  till  within  a 
f<BW  yards  of  the  Railway  Bridge, 

The  First  boat  were  again  in  front  of  Trinity  Hall,  who  came 
up  to  them  very  fast  in  the  last  half  of  the  Long  Reach.  Just 
before  the  Railway  Bridge  ^hey  overlapped  and  made  a  shot, 
which  just  touched  the  rudder  without  the  cox  being  able  to 
feel  it.  The  crew  accordingly  rowed  on,  still  hard  pressed,  but 
near  the  Pike  and  Eel  the  rudder  came  off  and  Hall  made  an 
undisputed  bump  just  past  that  point. 

On  the  last  day  the  gecond  boat  were  bumped  by  CJare  just 
after  Grassy.  Clare  were  a  strong  and  heavy  crew,  and  our 
men  were  riather  light,  and  so  beginning  to  feel  the  effect^  of 
their  five  previous  rapes. 

The  First  boat,  rowing  v^ry  well,  kept  out  of  their  distance 
pf  Corpus  and  gained  a  little  on  Trinity  Hall  up  to  Ditton. 
First  Boat.  Second  Boat, 


it,  lbs. 

Bow  L.  B.  Burnett  ••••••  9  3 

2  F.  p.  Hessey 10  10 

3  A.  J.  Binns 9  13 

4  S.  B.  Reid   ii  5 

5  T.J.  Pullqr II  12 

6  F.T.Allen 11  9 

7  C.  E.  Ray    11  2 

StrokeB.K.Wms lO      O 

CV?jc  J.  H.  Pegg 9  o 


St.  lbs. 

Bow  F.  M.  Smith    10  3 

2  C.C.Waller   10  11 

3  A.  T. 'W^allis    II  4 

4  T.  R.  Cassell    11  5 

5  H.  G.  T.  Jonps    ....  12  O 

6  B.  T.  Nunns    ••.•••  ii  3 

7  P.  H.  Brown    ••.•••  10  2 
stroke  A.  J.  Robertson  , .  •  •  ip  5 

C<?;r  J.  p.  Fr^er.. 9  o 

First  Boat. 

^Sow^ls  a  promising  par  and  works  well,  but  needs  more  steadiness  over 

tbe  stretcher. 
7W— Has  improved  siiice  U^t  year,  but  is  apt  to  get  short  at  the  finish  and 

rush  forward, 
7%fv»— Strong  and  wUling,  but  has  npt  learnt  to  use  his  legs  at  the  beginning 

of  the  stroke,  and  so  is  short  at  the  finish. 
/^<^»r— Works  hard,  but  rather  loses  control  over  himself  when  he  is  rowings 

and  so  is  apt  to  miss  the  beginning, 
Five^Very  keen  and  hard-working,  but  should  lengthen  out  the  finish  by 

taking  his  shoulders  back  more, 
5Mf— Very  promising.    Works  well  and  has  good  body  form. 
^^M— Worked  hard  and  backed  up  stroke  well ;  has  an  awkward  finish. 
^froke^Seis  a  smart  stroke  and  rowed  with  the  greatest  pluck  and  judgments 

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Second  Boat, 

Bow — blather  slow  with  his  hands  and  so  rushes  forward  when  rowing,  but 

is  very  keen  and  works  well  for  so  fight  a  weight. 
T^wo — Has  not  shewn  enough  improyement  this  Term.    Tries  to  work  hard, 

but  gets  unsteadjr  over  the  stretcher  and  tnisses  the  beginning.    Should 

be  better  when  his  back  strengthens. 
7%fTf^— Does  not  hold  the  finish  out  long  enough  when  rolnng,  but  works 

well,  especially  considering  that  he  was  rather  too  light  for  the  place. 
Four--  Swings  well  and  rows  a  good  blade ;  should  be  a  bit  smarter  with  his 

hands  and  with  the  beginning. 
/%»tf— Works  hard,  but  irould  be  more  effective  if  his  back  didn't  give  at  the 

beginning  of  the  stroke. 
Six — Rowed  in  fair  form  and  backed  up  stroke  well ;  should  hold  on  more 

with  his  outside  hand  at  the  finish. 
iS^vtfii' Rowed  very  hard,  in  spite  of  much  ill-health  during  the  Term.    Is  a 

good  racer  and  always  ready  for  a  spurt,  but  should  keep  his  shoulders 

down  at  the  finish. 
5'/!r0>^»Rowed  very  pluckily  and  kept  it  long.    Has  improved  very  much  aa 

a  stroke  since  last  Term. 
The  coxes  were  both  rather  heavy,  but  steered  well* 

One  very  pleasing  feature  of  the  rowing  this  Term,  and  one 
that  augars  well  for  the  future,  has  been  the  great  keenness 
displayed  by  the  men.  If  this  feeling  continues,  we  see  no 
reason  why,  with  the  material  available,  we  should  not  have 
two  very  good  crews  next  Term. 

We  must  not  omit  to  mention  that  a  very  successful  non* 
smoking  concert  was  held  on  February  1 1  th  for  the  crews  then 
in  training  and  old  members  of  the  boats.  Mr  Marr  kindly 
presided. 

Scratch  Fours  were  rowed  on  February  26th*  Five  crews 
started.    The  following  were  the  winners : — 

Bow  G.  B.  Buchanan 

2  W.  E.  Forster 

3  D.  Stephens 
5frv^B.  R.Wills 

Cox  J.  H.  Pegg 

We  have  to  thank  Mrs  and  the  Misses  Bell  for  their  kindness 
in  working  the  new  Second  boat  flag. 


Cricket  Club. 

A  general  meeting  was  held  on  Thursday,  February  27,  in 
Lecture  Room  IV. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  : 
Captain^l^  Ronghton.  Hon.  Sec.—J.  H.  C.  Fegan. 

H.  Wilcox  and  W.  F.  Moulton  were  elected  to  the  vacancies 
on  the  committee,  which  is  now  composed  of  H.  Roughton, 
T.  H.  C.  Fegan,  E.  A.  Chambers,  H.  Pullan,  H.  Wilcox,  and 
W.  F.  Moulton. 


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RuGBT  Union  Football  Clxjb. 
The  following  is  the  list  of  the  team,  with  their  characters : 

J,  P.  M.  Blackett  (Capt.)— A  voy  keen  and  energetic  Captain.     Greatly 

improved  in  dribbling  and  always  to  the  fore  in  the  loose.    Collars  and 

passes  well,  though  ue  latter  a  litde  wildly  at  times.    Is  always  up  to 

the  scrimmages,  an  example  not  always  followed  by  the  rest  of  his  men. 
A,  71  Wallis  (Sec.)— Plays  with  great  dash»  and  is  the  most  useful  man  in 

the  team.    Runs  and  takes  a  pass  wdl,  and  is  very  useful  out  of  touch. 

In  dribbling  is  sometimes  apt  to  kick  rather  too  hajd. 
y.  Sackhouse^jyid  good  sendee  at  centre-three-quarter  in  the  four  matches 

he  was  able  to  plav,  being  especially  useful  in  keeping  the  backs  together. 

He  collars  and  lacks  well,  and  passes  with  judgment,  but  is  rather  slow. 
R»  H.  Stauy — ^A  usefol  forward,  doing  a  lot  of  work  in  the  scrimmage,  and 

good  out  of  touch,  but  not  quite  at  home  in  the  loose. 
R,  Rcwlands^K.  hard-working  forward.    Has  greatly  improved  in  diibbling, 

but  does  not  pass. 
/>.  A.  NichcU—Ft&t  wing-three-quarter.    Apt  to  spoU  passing  by  being  out 

of  his  place.    Sometimes  fumbles.    Has  improved  m  kicking,  but  is  still 

rather  weak.    Dodges  well  and  sometimes  coUars  in  good  style. 
H,  PuUan — Back ;  plays  three-quarters  on  occasion.    A  good  kick,  but  not 

always  into  touch.    Collars  surely. 
y.  H.  C,  Fegan^A.  good  half;  kicks  and  runs  well ;  passes  weU,  but  not 

enough.    Has  been  the  most  successful  scorer.    Is  a  good  place-kick. 

A.  B.  Elliott— Ax  times  shews  very  good  form,  but  sometimes  inclined  to  be 

slack.    Usefid  out  of  toudi  and  good  in  the  loose. 
y,  Lupton-'lL  light  but  hard-working  forward;  dribbles  and  collars  well. 

He  should  study  Ihe  rules  of  off-side. 
T.  L,  Jackson-- A  most  useful  half,  though  slow.    Feeds  the  three-()uarters 

well  and  is  always  ready  for  a  pass.    Dodges  well  and  is  a  fiur  kick. 

K.eeps  his  head  well  and  thorougnly  understands  the  game. 

B.  Long—A.  good  forward  in  the  loose.     Passes  and  runs  welL     With  a 

little  more  experience  would  be  a  first-rate  man. 

C.  D.  Edwards— llsjA'ViOT\ang  forward ;  rather  slow  in  the  loose.    CoIIan 

weU. 

G,  Longman— Got  his  colours  as  three-quarter,  where  he  plays  a  sound  but 
not  brilliant  game.  Takes  passes  well,  but  is  a  poor  kick.  Is  also  a 
useM  forward. 

ff,  Thompson — Works  hard  in  the  scrimmages,  but  seems  to  lose  his  head  in 
the  loose.    Is  rather  slow  in  getting  into  the  scrimmage. 

Association  Football  Club. 

We  have  played  the  following  matches  this  Term : 

Goals. 

Old  Carthusians Lost  •••.•••. 3. ...8 

King's Won 3...." 

Old  Carthusians Won 5.. ..I 

Jesus, Lost 0....6 

Christ's ..•••.,,,,,,,,,, ..Drawn  .« ••  ••0.« ..o 
Emmanuel    , Won 3..%.i 

Owing  to  "the  epidemic"  we  have  only  once  had  our  full 
team ;  and  have  also  missed  Roughton  in  most  of  the  matches, 
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y»  .An'rjftnv— Kept  goal  well  at  the  beginning  of  the  seasoOi  but  owing  to 

nervousness  fell  off  towards  the  end. 
C.  C,  Jachscn^K  hard-working  back.    Kicks  and  tackles  well. 
C  H,  Tcvey—An  energetic  back ;  tackles  weU,  but  kicks  much  too  high, 
/l  y,  Seccombe'^K  hard-working  centre  half-back ;  passes  well  to  his  forwards. 
Z>.  Stephens^K  very  hard-working  and  energetic  half-back;    tackles  and 

I)asses  welly  but  should  keep  in  his  place  and  not  get  over  to  the  other 

side  of  the  ground. 
J5r.  (rtfnfm^r^  Half-back ;  tackles  and  passes  well,  but  is  very  slow. 
S,  Langmor€—F^st  and  neat  outside  right;  should  learn  to  middle  with 

greater  accuracy. 
y.  Kershaw — A  tricky  forward,  but  very  slow.    Fair  shot  at  goal. 
JBT.  Roughton — An  energetic  hard-working  centre-forward.    Passes  well ;  good 

shot  at  goal. 
JTl  C,  Barraclough^K'&  Captain  has  been  the  mainstay  of  the  team;   an 

excellent  forward,  with  great  pace,  and  a  very  good  shot  at  god. 
C.  77^<z//2j— Hard-working  outside  left.    Should  pass  more  and  centre  sooner. 

The  Scratch  Sixes  have  been  played  o£f  and  were  won  by 
the  following  Six: 

H.  C.  Barraclough 
D.  Stephens 
H.  Gardiner 
G.  H.  Smith 
H.  S.  Willcocks 
H.  D.  Carlisle 

General  Athletic  Club. 

Mr  J.  E.  Marr  has  been  elected  a  Senior  Member  of  the 
Committee,  in  place  of  Mr  F.  L.  Thompson  whose  term  of 
office  has  expired. 

Eagle  Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

At  a  general  meeting  on  Thursday,  February  13,  the 
foUowing  gentlemen  were  elected  members  of  the  club: 
H.  Pullan,  J.  Cleworth,  W.  E.  Forster,  C.  E.  Ray. 

Lacrosse  Club. 

We  are  glad  to  say  that  the  number  of  members  has  been 
steadily  on  the  increase  this  term,  and  that  this  addition  has 
for  the  most  past  been  drawn  from  the  first  and  second  years. 
As  but  few  of  the  present  members  will  be  going  down  this 
summer,  we  may  reasonably  hope  for  a  fairly  strong  team  to 
represent  the  College  next  season. 

Since  our  last  notice  the  following  matches  have  been 
played : 

December  3,  1889 — Trinity  v  The  Rest.  This  was  the  return 
match.  The  teams  on  both  sides  were  strong,  that  for  the 
Rest  including  seven  Johnians,  and  a  good  game  resulted. 
The  Rest  won  by  four  goals  to  one. 


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Fehruaty  lo,  1890— St  John's  played  the  Leys  School  on 
their  ground.  A  fast  game  followed,  and  our  opponents,  though 
playing  without  masters,  eventually  proved  too  strong  for  us, 
winning  by  six  goals  to  one.  The  point  for  the  College  was 
scored  by  Sandall. 

The  following  represented  the  College  on  that  occasion: 
T.  E.  Sandall  {Captain),  J.  H.  Reeves,  J.  Lupton,  G.  Longman, 

F.  Villy,  T.  L.  Jackson,  E.  F.  Gedye,  H.  C.  Lees,  L.  W. 
Gfenville,  L.  B.  Radford,  W.  A.  Stone,  and  C.  E.  Fynes- 
Clinton. 

The  following  have  received  their  College  Lacrosse  Colours : 

G.  S.  Hodson,  G.  Longman,  and  F.  Villy. 

4TH  (Camb.  Univ.)  Volunteer  Battalion:  The  Suffolk 

Regiment. 

We  have  to  congratulate  Captain  A.  Hill  on  his  promotion, 
which  was  gazetted  on  December  13,  1889.  Second-Lieutenant 
W.  D.  Jones  was  gazetted  Lieutenant  on  February  24,  1890, 
and  we  rejoice  to  hear  that  he  will  be  among  us  again  next 
Term. 

Lance-Corporal  E.  F.  Williams  is  promoted  to  be  full 
Corporal. 

Our  champion  shot,  Lance-Corporal  Nunns,  has  again  won 
the  Company  Cup  with  a  score  of  8 1  points.  He  also  carried 
off  the  'Peek  Bowl*  with  a  score  of  58  points  out  of  15  shots 
at  500  yards. 

From  the  Colonel's  Annual  Report  we  learn  that  out  of  46 
Senior  Members  of  the  University  who  have  become  honorary 
(non-enrolled)  members  of  the  Corps  no  less  than  11  are 
members  of  St  John's. 

On  January  3 1  we  had  a  Field-day  at  Shelford ;  the  Colonel, 
covered  with  new  honours  at  Hythe,  has  been  instructing  us  in 
the  "attack,"  and  the  College  grounds  have  been  enlivened 
after  dark  with  the  lanterns  of  a  party  of  signallers  in  the 
Long  Walk. 

With  the  view  of  inducing  members  of  B  Company  to  shoot 
their  third  Class,  Scratch  Fours  were  got  up  and  shot  off  on 
February  10.    The  scores  of  the  leading  Fours  are  appended: — 

H.M.Leathes 58  H.  J.  Bumsted 66 

H.  E.  S.  Cordeaux   ....  61  H.Drake    •,,,.  48 

A.  R.  Young 52  F.V.Theobald 60 

B.T.NunDS 70  C.  C.Waller  .,...,,.  ^  58 

241  232 

But  where  was  the  Major .? 

The  Corps  has  lost  this  year  the  services  of  Captain  and 
Quarter-Master  Wace,  now  Mayor  of  Cambridge.  In  these 
•slack  days  it  is  useful  to  note  the  services  of  an  energetic 
member  of  B  Company.    Mr  Wace  joined  the  Corps  in  1859 


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amongst  the  first  60  members  of  the  University,  when  it  was 
only  contemplated  that  one  company  should  be  enrolled.  He 
was  enrolled  as  a  full  member  of  the  Corps  on  March  5,  18609 
and  when  he  resigned  was  the  last  original  member  on 
the  rolls. 

Mr  Wace  was  gazetted  Ensign  February  26,  1867;  Lieu- 
tenant November  11,  1867;  Captain  November  23,  1868, 
receiving  a  certificate  of  proficiency  in  March  1871.  In  April 
1878  Mr  Wace  became  Quarter- Master  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant,  and  was  subsequently  raised  to  the  rank  of  Captain. 
His  resignation  is  dated  January  8,  1890;  he  has  been  returned 
as  an  'efiScient'  thirty  times,  and  has  held  a  commission  over 
twenty-two  years.  While  he  was  Captain  of  B  Company  it 
frequently  numbered  over  70  efficients,  and  had  60  members  on 
parade  at  the  inspection.  When  we  remember  that  for  the 
year  ending  October  31  last  the  Company  had  37  efficients  and 
J 2  non-efficients  we  must  admit  that  we  are  under  par. 

The  annual  inspection  has  been  fixed  for  Friday,  May  2,  and 
by  the  courtesy  of  the  College  the  annual  inspection  dinner  will 
be  held  in  our  Combination  Room. 

A  detachment  will  proceed  to  Camp  in  Colchester  on  March 
17.  It  is  understood  that  there  are  two  Irish  Regiments  in  the 
Garrison,  and  as  the  day  sacred  to  St  Patrick  {Ep.  et  Conf.)  will 
occur  during  our  stay,  it  is  expected  that  our  military  fife  will 
have  its  relaxations. 


Debating  Society. 

Presidmt^T,  Nicklin.  Vice-Prisident^'E,  W.  MacBride.  Treasunr-^ 
A.  S.  Tetley.  Se^etary^Vf.  W.  Haslett  Committee—Q.  H.  R.  Garda, 
G.  D.  Kempt 

The  Society  has  had  a  successful  term  in  every  way,  the 
debates  having  been  interesting  and  well  attended,  while 
financially  the  only  difficulty  is  how  to  dispose  of  the  large 
and  rapidly  increasing  surplus. 

The  debates  for  the  term  have  been  as  follows : 

January  1 8 — "  That  the  influence  of  the  Stage  is  beneficial." 
Proposed  by  W.  J.  Brown.  Opposed  by  J.  J.  Alexander. 
Carried  by  20  to  7. 

January  25 — ''That  this  House  approves  of  the  aims  of  the 
Indian  National  Congress."  Proposed  by  K.  G.  Deshpande. 
Opposed  by  J.  S.  Mizra.     Carried  by  14  to  7. 

February  i — '*That  the  Freedom  of  the  Press  is  fast 
degenerating  into  licence."  Proposed  by  E.  W.  MacBride. 
Opposed  by  A.  S.  Tetley.     Carried  by  17  to  8. 

JF^bruary  8 — "That  the  present  Government  is  unworthy  of 
confidence."  Proposed  by  G.  H.  R.  Garcia.  Opposed  by 
J.  E.  Purvis.     Lost  by  6  to  19. 


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February  15 — "That  this  House  approves  of  Cremation." 
Proposed  bj  A.  J.  Pitkin.  Opposed  bj  H.  Drake.  Carried 
by  18  to  4. 

February  22 — "That  the  principle  of  Land  Nationalisation 
is  heartily  to  be  commended."  Proposed  by  O.  M.  Wihl. 
Opposed  by  A.  W.  Flux  B.A.    Lost  by  2  to  8. 

March  i — "That  the  present  Free  Trade  System  is  injurious 
to  the  commercial  interests  of  the  country."  Proposed  by 
G.  D.  Kempt.   Opposed  by  W.  B.  Morton.   Carried  by  z  6  to  14. 

March  8— "That  the  disuse  of  Corporal  Punishment  as  a 
means  of  education  is  to  be  regretted."  Proposed  by  A.  Foxley. 
Opposed  by  H.  King. 

Musical  Society. 

We  are  glad  to  be  able  to  say  that  this  Society  is  in  a  more 
prosperous  condition  than  it  has  been  for  some  years.  This 
we  attribute  to  the  largely  increased  number  of  members.  We 
have  also  been  able  to  form  the  nucleus  of  an  Orchestral  Society, 
which  we  hope  will  meet  with  the  support  it  deserves. 

During  the  Michaelmas  Term  three  Smoking  Concerts 
were  given. 

The  ofl&cers  for  the  Michaelmas  Term  were : — 

Dr  Sandys,  President;  Rev  A.  J.  Stevens,  Treasurer;  Committee: 
J.  Bairstow  {Secretary),  J.  J.  B.  Palmer,  E.  A.  Hensley,  A.  B.  F.  Cole, 
A.  W.  Dennis,  F.  W.  Camegy. 

On  Saturday,  January  23,  the  Society  gave  their  Saturday 
Popular  Concert  in  the  Guildhall  before  a  crowded  audience, 
at  which  Dr  D.  MacAlister  very  kindly  presided.  The  Concert 
proved  a  complete  success,  many  of  the  songs  being  enthu- 
siastically encored. 

The  following  was  the  programme  :— 

Organ  Solo •  •  •  •  •    from  the  Occasional  Overture,  ••••••  .A.  S.  Tstlet 

Song The  Lighthouse  Keeper C.  M.  RiCE 

Song , Tomorrow  will  be  Friday E.  A.  Elliott 

IC.  O.  Raven 
E.  A.  Elliott 
C.  M.  Rice 

Song Off  to  Philadelphia P.  E.  Shaw 

Song... • 2  he  Devout  Lover   ,,, £.  A.  Henslst 

Song ,...AtBay F.  W.  CA&KEG7 


Organ  Solo March A.  S.  Tetlet 

Song     My  pretty  yane •••..A.  W.  Dennis 

Song London  Bridge •  • A.  B.  F.  CoLB 

Recitation.  •  •  •   How  Bill  Adams  won  the  battle  of  Waterloo  ...  .J.  Sanger 

Song 2he  Bended  Bow A.  S.  Roberts 

r\..— *-..«-  A  T?^^%u»^^ ^  n^^r^M       (A.  W.Dennis,  H.  CoLLiiiON 

Q«*rt*^^^« AFranklynsDogge  ..  | j. bairstow,  E.  A.  Henslkj 


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The  Society  have  also  given  two  Smoking  Concerts  this 
Term  in  Lecture  Room  Vl,  which  went  off  with  their  usual 
iclai,  Mr  Caldecott  and  Mr  Marr  were  good  enough  to 
preside.  These  Concerts  are  becoming  very  popular,  and  we 
hope  they  will  prove  to  be  an  inducement  to  many  to  join  the 
Society.  It  has  been  decided  to  give  our  usual  May  Concert 
in  the  Guildhall  on  Monday,  June  9,  when  Cowen's  St  JohtCs 
Eve  will  be  performed.  This  will  necessarily  entail  a  con- 
siderable expenditure,  and  will  tax  the  tesources?  of  the  Society 
to  their  utmost.  We  hope  that  all  our  Members  will  do  their 
best  to  make  the  Concert  a  pectmiary  success,  as  the  Committee 
are  doing  all  in  their  power  to  pay  off  all  arrears  of  debt. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the.  officers  for  the  Lent  and  May 
Terms : — 

Dr  Sandys,  President;  Rev  A.  J.  Stevens,  Treasunr;  Committee: 
F.  W.  Camegy  {Secretary),  E.  A.  Hensley,  J.  Bairetow,  F.  M.  Smith, 
A«  W.  Denius,  A.  B«  F.  Cole. 

ToYNBEfi  Hall. 

The^  anntral  St  Jtide's  Pictiire  Exhibition  will  be  held  at 
Eastertide,  beginning  on  March  25.  Last  year  50,000  enjoyed 
both  the  pictures  and  their  explanation  by  volunteer  guides. 
The  names  of  any  Johnians  who  have  leisure  to  spend  a  few 
hours  as  'watchers'  during  the  Easter  Vacation  will  be  gladly 
received  by  Mr  F.  B.  Glover,  College  Secretary 

A  meeting  was  held  in  Dr  MacAlister's  rooms  on  February  9, 
for  the  purpose  of  discussing  the  aid  the  College  might  give  to 
the  Universities  Settlement.  A  number  of  fresh  names  were 
added  to  the  Committee,  and  numerous  subscriptions  have 
since  been  promised  or  paid.  , 

Mr  G.  C.  M.  Smith,  our  Press  Editor,  lectures  on  *  Rousseau  • 
on  March  9.  Dr  Abbott  takes  a  Sunday  Class  on  The  Infer- 
preiaiion  of  Scripture,  A  concert  is  to  be  given  at  the  Settlement 
next  Term  by  members  of  the  College  Musical  Society. 

Thb  Theological  Society. 

During  the  term  the  following  papers  have  been  read : 

Emmanuel  Swedenborg  and  his  teaching,  by  A.  W.  Greenup 
B.A. 

Socrates,  book  v,  by  G.  Longman. 

The  Shapira  Forgeries,  by  B.  Long. 

St  Luke's  Writings  regarded  as  an  Irenicon,  by  H.  S. 
Willcocks. 

The  Philosophy  of  Hermann  Lotze,  by  Rev  A.  Caldecott  M.A. 

The  officers  for  next  term  will  be : 

President:  J.  J.  HuUey;  Ex-President:  Rev  J.  J.  B.  Palmer  B.A. ; 
Han,  Treasurer:  W.  H.  Chambers;  Hon,  Secretary:  H.  S.  WiUcocks; 
Committee:  C.  Askwith,.F.  G.  Given-Wilson* 

Mr  Gwatkin  has  promised  a  paper  for  next  term.    Papers 
will  also  be  given  by  Messrs  Caldwell,  Scullard,  and  Chambers. 
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Th£  Reading  Room. 

There  is  little  of  interest  to  record  this  term.  It  seems 
probable  that  the  number  of  subscribers  will  increase,  as  the 
*  Reading  Room  Periodical  *  is  obviously  very  popular.  An 
auction  was  held  at  the  beginning  of  the  term,  but  the  number 
of  men  who  appeared  as  purchasers  was  remarkably  small.  It 
is  to  be  hoped  that  an  improvement  in  this  respect  will  be 
witnessed  in  the  future. 

Our  sincere  thanks  are  due  to  Dr  MacAlister  for  another 
volume  of  the  Modem  Cyclopcedta,  to  the  Editors  of  the  Eagle 
for  School  Magazines  and  Periodicals,  and  to  the  Junior  Dean 
for  a  copy  of  In  Cap  and  Gown, 

Chamber^  Journal^  Harper's  Monthly^  The  Saturday  Review^ 
and  Comkill  have  been  added  to  the  list  of  periodicals 
taken  in. 

The  Committee  this  term  consisted  of  Mr  Harker,  Treasurer^ 
A.  J.  Robertson,  W.  C.  Laming,  and  C.  C.  Waller,  Hon.  Sec, 

The  College  Mission. 

The  work  at  Walworth  has  again  been  established  on  its 
full  basis;  for  two  months  Mr  Phillips  was  working  nearly 
single-handed,  owing  to  the  departure  of  Mr  Francis,  whose 
post  it  was  found  very  difficult  to  fill.  But  now  not  only  is 
there  a  Junior  Missioner  at  work,  but  it  is  a  Johnian  who  has 
succeeded  Mr  Francis,  much  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
Committee,  who  at  one  time  had  given  up  hope  of  securing 
a  member  of  the  College.  The  Rev  James  Benoy  took  a 
Second  Class  in  the  Classical  Tripos  of  1885,  and  has  for  two 
years  been  one  of  the  Curates  in  the  populous  parish  of  St 
Peter's,  Fulham.  Mr  Benoy  began  work  on  the  first  Sunday  in 
Lent,  February  23. 

The  Senior  Missioner,  Mr  Phillips,  had  a  severe  attack  of 
influenza  whilst  still  single-handed,  and  the  work  would  have 
sufifered  seriously  had  it  not  been  for  the  kind  help  of  several 
friends  of  the  Mission,  both  clergy  and  laity.  The  new  Church 
has  given  occasion  for  increased  work;  it  is  already  very 
efifective  in  elevating  the  character  of  the  services,  and  is 
thoroughly  appreciated. 

The  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  will  probably  grant  us  this 
year  /'i  500  for  a  Vicarage-house.  The  want  of  it  is  greatly  felt 
by  the  Senior  Missioner,  as  it  is  impossible  to  obtain  a  house 
with  rooms  of  any  other  than  the  size  common  in  the  district, 
that  is  to  say,  working  people's  houses.  The  Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners  have  also  agreed  to  form  the  district  into  a 
parish,  under  certain  restrictions  during  the  lifetime  of 
Mr  Cotham,  Vicar  of  St  John's,  to  whose  parish  the  district 
has  till  now  belonged. 


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The  Annual  Meeting  was  held  on  Monday,  February  10,  in 
Lecture  Room  VI,  the  Master  kindly  consenting  to  take  the 
chair.  The  Rev  H.  Lowther  Clarke,  an  active  Yorkshire 
clergyman,  and  Chairman  of  the  York  School  Board,  was  to 
have  addressed  the  Meeting,  but  was  prevented  by  illness. 
The  Master,  Mr  Caldecott,  and  Mr  Watson  all  referred  to  the 
work  that  had  been  going  on  during  the  year,  under  diflferent 
aspects.  Mr  Watson,  who  had  just  visited  the  Mission,  gave  a 
very  graphic  account  of  what  was  actually  going  on.  What 
was  most  striking  was  his  account  of  the  reverence  and 
heartiness  with  which  all  the  people  joined  in  the  services, 
and  above  all  the  perfect  discipline  and  control  which  was 
maintained  among  the  children.  Mr  Ward  then  proposed  a 
vote  of  thanks  to  the  members  of  the  Executive  Committee 
who  went  out  of  office  in  the  October  term,  and  to  all  those 
who  have  lately  assisted  so  much  at  the  Mission,  noting 
especially  Mr  H.  Simpson  B.A.,  and  Mr  A.  F.  Marr,  the 
energetic  Organist.  The  latter  was  present  at  the  meeting, 
and  was  very  cordially  received. 

During  the  Christmas  Vacation  thirteen  Junior  Members  of 
the  College  visited  Walworth,  and  two  concerts  were  got  up  by 
E.  A.  Hensley  and  C.  M.  Rice  respectively,  which  proved  very 
successful.  It  is  hoped  that  a  large  number  of  men  will  visit 
the  Mission  during  the  Easter  Vacation,  and  see  for  themselves 
what  is  really  being  done^  even  if  their  stay  only  lasts  a  day 
or  two. 

The  Treasurer  is,  through  indisposition,  not  accessible  foi 
financial  news  at  the  moment  of  sending  in  our  report.  We 
hold  over  a  statement  of  last  year's  finances  till  next  term. 

The  Committee  had  somewhat  of  a  scare  in  the  middle  of 
the  term,  in  the  shape  of  a  claim  by  the  contractor  for  the 
Church  that  we  should  repay  him  his  damages  (and  law  costs) 
of  £ioQ  for  injury  inflicted  on  neighbouring  premises  during 
the  work.  The  Committee  could  discover  no  moral  obligation, 
and  there  was  plainly  no  legal  obligation ;  so  the  matter  was 
firmly  dealt  with,  and  the  claim  withdrawn. 

We  beg  to  apologise  for  an  omission  in  the  last  number  of 
the  Eagle.  The  Bishop  of  Hereford's  name  was  omitted  in 
the  list  of  special  preachers  during  the  octave  of  the  Consecration 
of  the  Church. 

It  is  germane  to  the  Mission  to  mention  that  a  small 
donation  from  the  ordinary  Communion  Offertory  has  been 
forwarded  to  Mr  W.  F.  Purdie  (B.A.,  Peterhouse)  in  response 
to  his  urgent  appeal,  that  his  work  among  North  London  boys 
should  not  come  to  an  untimely  end. 

Mr  J.  H.  Edwards  M.A.  M.R.C.S.  has  been  appointed 
Acting  Medical  Officer  to  the  Dispensary.  Dr  Tooth,  Mr  A.  M. 
Sheild»  and  Mr  C.  H.  James  form  the  Consulting  Staff. 


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CONTENTS 

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Frontispiece 

The  New  Organ  Screen            ......  221 

The  Choral  Services  in  Chapel              -           -    *       -           -           -  224 

Notes  from  the  College  Records  (continued)    ....  230 

On  the  Broads  in  March  (continued)    .....  248 

"  Lenten  Indults" 260 

"Soapsuds"      -           -           -           -           -           -           -           -  265 

Portrait  of  Professor  Mayor       ......  268 

Obituary: 

The  Rev  F.  E.  Gretton 277 

Reuben  Buttress     --....-  277 

To  Gladstone  Revisiting  Oxford            -           •           -           -           -  279 

Theocritus         .....--.  280 

It  might  have  been        .......  280 

A  Summer  Thought      --..-..  2S1 

Chance              ....           ....  2S1 

A  Lay  of  the  Thames  and  Cam            .....  2S2 

Thamesina        ....           ....  283 

Correspondence             ...            ....  2S6 

Oar  Chronicle    ........  289 

The  Library      .  .  .  .  .  .  -  -321 


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THE  NEW  ORGAN  SCREEN. 


If^HEN  our  Chapel  was  finished  and  opened  on 
the  1 2th  of  May,  1869,  the  organ  was  left 
without  a  proper  case.  Dr  Reyner,  in  his 
account  of  the  Chapel  prepared  for  the  opening  day, 
$ays  "  The  question  of  the  case  is  not  yet  settled." 

It  is  believed  that  the  architect.  Sir  Greorge 
Gilbert  Scott,  R.A.,  prepared  a  design,  which  some 
members  of  the  College,  who  remember  to  have 
seen  it,  describe  as  consisting  of  iron  scroll  work  of 
a  very  effective  character.  Owing,  however,  to  want 
of  funds  the  erection  of  a  case  was  not  proceeded 
with  for  nearly  twenty  years.  Seeing  what  a  beautiful 
case  we  have  now  got,  there  is  no  reason  to  regret 
the  delay. 

In  the  year  1888  the  College  received  a  donation 
of  ;^2ooo  firom  a  distinguished  member,  and  in  the 
Michaelmas  Term  of  that  year  the  Council  agreed  to 
devote  a  portion  of  this  sum  to  the  erection  of  a 
case  (see  EaglCy  vol.  xv.  pp.  265,  267)  the  want  of 
which  was  a  serious  drawback  to  the  beauty  of  the 
interior  of  the  Chapel. 

The  Rev  E.  Hill,  Dr  Garrett  our  Organist,  and 
the  Senior  Bursar  Mr  Scott,  were  appointed  a  committee 
to  obtain  designs  for  the  work.  The  result  of  their 
enquiries  was  to  shew  that  Sir  George  Gilbert  Scott's 
original  design  had  been  lost,  and  his  son,  Mr  J.  Oldrid 
Scott  F.S.A.,  was  requested  to  furnish  a  new  design. 

The  work  was  put  in  hand  in  October  1889,  and' 
the  case  was  erected  during  last  Christmas  Vacation. 
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222  The  New  Organ  Screen. 

The  new  case,  an  engraving  of  which,  from  a 
drawing  by  Mr  Weatherley  now  being  exhibited  in 
the  Royal  Academy,  forms  the  frontispiece  to  the 
present  number,  has  been  designed  very  much  on 
the  lines  of  some  of  the  beautiful  mediaeval  organs 
still  remaining  on  the  Continent.  The  organ  has  two 
similar  fronts,  occupying  the  two  arches  provided  for 
this  purpose.  The  eflFect  of  this  is  unusual,  but  by 
no  means  unsatisfactory.  Each  front  is  designed  in 
two  stages :  the  larger  pipes  behind,  filling  nearly  the 
full  width  of  the  arch,  are  arranged  in  three  divisions, 
the  central  part  rising  higher  than  the  sides;  they 
have  been  covered  with  bright  *  spotted  metal,'  and  they 
are  surmounted  by  cornices  and  very  rich  crestings 
of  open  carved  work.  Below  the  cornices  the  pipes 
are  enclosed  by  elaborately-carved  woodwork  of  very 
light  and  graceful  design.  In  advance  of  this  part 
of  the  organ  and  on  a  lower  level  is  the  other  stage, 
projecting  boldly  forward.  It  is  smaller  in  scale  than 
the  upper  part,  but  equally  rich  in  detail.  It  is 
designed  in  five  divisions,  the  outer  ones  forming 
small  towers  and  the  central  part  overhanging  as  a 
groined  pendant. 

Below,  the  case  is  completed  with  simple  oak 
panelling,  but  this  is  for  the  most  part  concealed  by 
the  new  gallery  fronts  which  have  been  erected  across 
the  bottom  of  each  arch.  They  form  an  important 
feature  in  the  work,  and  complete  the  design  in  a 
pleasing  way.  They  consist  of  a  series  of  upright 
tracery  panels  alternately  solid  and  perforated. 

The  whole  has  been  executed  by  Mr  John  Thompson 
of  Peterborough,  and  is  an  excellent  example  of  modem 
woodwork.  The  carvings  are  elaborate  and  at  the 
same  time  extremely  light.  Every  part  of  the  work 
is  full  of  rich  detail,  and  the  whole  forms  a  very 
striking  addition  to  the  Chapel. 

While  the  work  on  the  case  was  in  progress  the 
opportunity  was  taken  to  introduce  some  improvements 


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into  the  organ  itself,  A  new  16-foot  Dulciana  stop 
was  added  to  the  pedal  organ,  which  is  thus  unusually 
complete.  The  instrument  is  remarkable  for  the 
number  of  combinations  of  soft  stops  which  it  contains 
(for  the  purpose  of  accompaniment),  as  well  as  for 
the  strength  and  variety  of  its  forte  effects. 

Manual  pneumatic  action  was  provided  for  the 
great  organ  keys  to  act  on  the  swell-coupler,  and 
also  manual  pneumatic  action  to  the  swell  organ. 
Pneumatic  tubular  draw-stop  action  was  applied  to 
all  stops  and  to  the  pedal  organ,  and  new  composition 
action  to  the  manual  and  pedal  and  to  the  swell-stops. 

Additional  water-engine  power,  and  bellows  of 
increased  capacity  to  work  the  pneumatics,  were 
included. 

This  work  was  carried  out  by  Messrs  W.  Hill  and 
Sons,  of  Islington,  who  originally  built  the  organ. 


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THE  CHORAL  SERVICES  IN  CHAPEL. 


IT  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  the  Chapel 
Services  have  been  to  some  extent  Choral  for 
more  than  three  Centuries.  The  note  in 
Mr  Tony's  Founders  and  Benefactors  (p.  104)  shews 
that  the  Chapel  has  contained  an  Organ  since  the 
year  1528 ;  and  in  the  same  book  (p.  51)  will  be  found 
an  account  of  various  endowments  for  the  support 
of  a  Choir ;  but  it  is  doubtful  whether  the  most  patient 
research  would  yield  any  information  concerning  the 
nature  and  extent  of  the  Choral  Services.  Even  within 
the  present  century  it  was  the  habit  to  enter  in  the 
College  books  "  Organist  and  Choir  "  as  a  single  item : 
and  although  the  name  of  the  bellows-blower  appears, 
the  name  of  the  Organist  does  not.  There  are  entries 
in  the  Conclusion  Book  during  the  Mastership  of  Dr 
John  Newcombe  [1736 — 1765]  of  certain  appointments 
of  Organists,  singing  men,  and  singing  boys.  In  1737 
the  appointment  of  one  Turner  to  teach  the  Choir-boys 
is  named.  In  1741,  the  Organist  received  three  guineas 
for  entering  the  Anthems  in  the  College  books. 

The  name  of  the  Rev  Dr  Jenkin,  Master,  appears 
in  the  list  of  Subscribers  to  the  original  edition  (1724) 
of  Dr  W.  Croft's  Thirty  Anthems.  If  the  copy  was 
for  the  use  of  the  Chapel,  it  is  probably  the  one  still 
in  the  music-room.  The  College  also  subscribed  to 
the  first  edition  of  Dr  M.  Green's  Anthems  (1743),  and 
to  the  Collection  of  Cathedral  Music  edited  by  Dr  Boyce 
(1790)  and  to  its  successor,  edited  by  Dr  S.  Arnold. 
AH  these  volumes  are  still  in  use. 

In  X 777,  Mr  Tireman  was  elected  Organist,  and  was 
succeeded,  later  in  the  same  year,  by  Mr  Jonathan 


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Sharpe.    From  that  time  the  list  of  College  Organists 
can  be  thus  far  completed. 

MrTireman.  Feb.— April  1777, 

Mr  Jonathan  Sharpe.  April  1777 — Sep.  1794 

*  t  Dr  John  Clarke-Whitfeld.  1798— 1820 

Mr  Beale.  1 820 — 1 82 1 

*  Mr  S.  Matthews.    Mus.  Bac.  1821 — 1832 

*  t  Dr  Thomas  Attwood  Walmisley,  M.A.        1833— 1856 

Mr  Alfred  Bennett.  June — Dec.  1856*. 

The  tenure  of  office  of  Jonathan  Sharpe  is  worthy 
of  remembrance.  There  is  a  College  Order  (June  9, 
1777)  that  proper  music-books  be  purchased  for  the 
use  of  the  Chapel,  and  that  the  pitch  of  the  Organ  be 
altered  under  the  direction  of  Mr  Argent".  The  books 
then  purchased  are  still  in  constant  use;  and  Mr 
Sharpe's  handwriting,  which  is  singularly  beautiful, 
covers  many  of  their  early  pages.  They  are  sixteen  in 
number,  and  each  volume  contains  from  fifty  to  sixty 
pages  of  Sharpe's  MS.  Some  idea  may  be  formed 
of  the  kind  of  service  in  use  from  their  contents.  The 
service  books,  for  example,  contain  nine  settings  of  the 
evening  service  Canltcles,  and  only  two  of  the  morning. 
It  is  thus  probable,  at  least,  that  the  order  of  service 
was  nearly  the  same  as  that  described  below  to  have 
been  found  in  existence  by  Walmisley  on  his  appoint- 
ment, 40  years  later,  and  remained  practically  unaltered 
during  his  tenure  of  office. 

In  1796  the  College  voted  a  sum  of  60  guineas  for 
the  repair  of  the  Organ,  and  this  would  seem  to  be 
the  last  money  expended  on  the  old  instrument.  In 
1837  a  new  Organ  was  erected. 


>  The  Organists  marked  *  were  also  Organists  of  Trinity  College :  and 
those  marked  f  Professors  of  Music  in  the  University. 

2  He  wotdd  appear  to  be  a  local  Organ- builder  who  had  charge  of  the 
College  Organ.  His  name  appears  for  such  a  long  series  of  years  in  the 
College  books  that  it  was  probably  a  case  iu  which  the  business  descended 
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226  The  Choral  Services  in  Chapel. 

Of  the  remaining  Organists,  Dr  Clarke-Whitfeld's 
name   is  still  well  known.      He  was    a  voluminous 
writer,  in  his  day  very   popular;    and   some   of  his 
Church  Music  still  sxirvives.     S.  Matthews,  Mus.  Bac, 
was  a  pupil  of  and  assistant  to  Dr  Chard,  sometime 
Organist  of  Winchester  Cathedral.    During  his  resi- 
dence in  Cambridge  he  "  adapted "  to  words  from  the 
Psalms  certain  movements  from  the  Masses  of  Haydn 
and  Mozart;    in  so   doing,   following  (perhaps   even 
setting })  a  fashion  which  has,  unhappily,  not  yet  quite 
expired.      It    is    remarkable    that    two    of  the    chief 
"adapters"  should  have  been  Cambridge  Organists. 
John  Pratt,  for  many  years  Organist  to  the  University 
and  of  King's  College  (1799 — 1855),  owed  his  reputation 
entirely  to  his  labours  in  this  direction.    ^^  Plead  thou 
my  came**  was,  perhaps,  the  key-stone  of  that  repu- 
tation ;  and  it  is  significant  that  the  collection  in  which 
it  is  found  is  called  **  Pratt' 5  Anthems^"  though  neither 
of  the  volumes   contains   a  single  note  of  his  own 
composition.      A    very    devotional    and    meritorious 
setting  of  the  words  "  Teach  me^  O  Lord^  the  way  of  thy 
statutesy  in  MS  in  our  Choir  books,  would  seem  to 
shew  that  Matthews  was  capable  of  better  work  than 
"adapting."      Dr   Walmisley   was   in    every   respect 
in  the  very  front  rank  of  musicians  in  his  time.    He 
had  great  invention  as  a  composer,  and  great  power 
as  a  performer.      If  he  had  done  gfreater  justice  to 
himself  he  might  have  left  behind  him  a  reputation 
second  to  that  of  no  English  musician.    But  he  was, 
like  his  distinguished   contemporary  Sir  John  Gross, 
easily  discouraged.    The  comparative  inattention  with 
which  his  early  compositions  were  received  disinclined 
him  to  further  eflfort,  and  his  early  death  prevented 
him  from  receiving  that  public  recognition  which,  as 
in  the  case  of  Sir  John  Gross,  would  no  doubt  have 
stimulated  and  rewarded  his  continued  laboxirs.     At 
Dr  Walmisley's  accession  to  office  the  state  of  musical 
matters  at  St  John's  was  this.    The  same  Lay-Clerks 


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sang  at  King's,  Trinity,  and  St  John's ;  the  eight  Senior 
Choir-boys  of  Trinity  sang  also  at  St  John's.  A  Choir 
School  was  not  in  existence,  but  the  boys  were  sent, 
at  the  joint  expense  of  Trinity  and  St  John's,  to  a 
private  school  in  Downing  Terrace,  kept  by  a  Mr 
Denny.  Subsequently  they  went  to  the  school  of 
Mr  Barber  in  Prospect  Row.*  They  were  examined 
periodically  by  the  Deans  of  each  College.  The 
College  Chapel  Services  were  held  at  9.15  a.m.,  and 
at  5 p.m.  on  Sundays;  and  later  on  there  was  a 
Choral  Service  on  Wednesday  evening.  The  only 
Sunday  mornings  on  which  there  was  a  Choral  Service 
were  Easter  Day,  Whit-Sunday,  and  Trinity  Sunday. 
There  was  also  Choral  Service  on  the  morning  and 
evening  of  Christmas  Day,  but  none  on  Holy  Thursday, 
nor  on  any  Saint's  Day.  The  note-books  of  Dr 
Walmisley,  from  March  1840  to  December  1853,  give 
the  Service  Music  and  Anthem  for  each  service,  and 
shew  that  during  that  period  the  type  of  service  known 
as  "Cathedral"  was  followed.  The  responses  were 
monotoned,  until  Dr  Walmisley  arranged  the  "  Tallis  " 
responses  in  the  form  in  which  he  published  them  in 
his  Cambridge  Chant  Book\  and  from  that  time  they 
were  used  in  Chapel.  The  Priest's  part  of  the  Service 
was  always  read,  not  sung.  This  custom  has  lasted 
until  the  present  day. 

When  the  new  Organ  was  erected  in  1837  some 
improvements  were  made  in  the  Choral  arrangements. 
It  was  then,  for  example,  that  the  weekly  Wednesday 
evening  service  was  established,  partly  as  a  set-off 
for  the  non-observance  of  Saints'  Days.  The  fact 
that  the  same  men  sang  in  all  the  three  Choirs,  and 
the  same  boys  at  two  of  them,  had,  as  might  be 
expected,  a  very  prejudicial  effect  on  the  St  John's 
Chapel  music.    Brevity  was  inevitable.    But  even  the 

*  I  am  indebted  for  mnch  of  this  infonnation  to  my  friend  Mr  W.  Amps, 
H.A.  of  Peterhouse,  who  was  a  Chorister  in  the  Trinity  and  St  John's  Choir 
from  183 1  to  1840,  and  subsequently  a  pupil  of  Professor  Wahnisley. 


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desire  for  brevity  can  scarcely  justify  the  fact  that 
some  of  Handel's  finest  ^^ Messiah"  Choruses  were 
curtailed  for  Johnian  use.  Our  Choir-books  contain 
shortened  versions  of  "  Lift  up  your  heads  "  /  "  Worthy 
is  the  Lamb*' ;  ''But  thanks  be  to  God."  The  first 
Chorus  is  reduced  by  25  bars,  the  second  by  12,  and 
the  last,  which  occupies  50  bars  in  the  score,  is  **  boiled 
down"  to  22  in  the  MS. 

I  have  been  unable  to  identify  the  writing  in  the 
Choir-books.  It  is  certainly,  to  all  appearance,  as 
modem  as  that  of  Clarke- Whitfeld ;  and  certainly 
not  that  of  Walmisley.  But  "that  which  is  written 
remains  "  ;  there  are  the  Choruses  in  the  Choir-books. 

It  w£is  not  only,  however,  in  such  ways  that  a 
perusal  of  Walmisley's  note-books  proves  that  in  the 
curious  musical  partnership  which  existed,  St  John's 
was  always  treated  as  the  junior  member  of  the  firm. 
Not  once  on  any  Christmas  day  was  the  appropriate 
Anthem,  "  There  were  shepherds"  sung  in  Chapel. 
Easter  Day,  Advent,  Whit-Sunday,  were  either  left 
unnoticed,  or  had  such  Anthems  assigned  to  them  as 
"  /  Jmve  set  God"  (Blake),  "  Prepare  ye  the  way  "  (Wise), 
or  other  short  and  simple  settings  of  more  or  less 
appropriate  words.* 

The  Chapel  Services  were  continued  almost  all  the 
year  round.  Sometimes  there  was  not  a  "vacation" 
Sunday  even  in  September.  And  from  the  fact  that 
the  musical  part  of  the  service  was  quite  as  elaborate 
in  what  are  now  Easter  and  Christmas  vacations  as 
in  full  Term,  it  seems  probable  that  there  was  a  fiiU 
congregation  in  Chapel  even  at  those  seasons. 


•  Dr  Walmisley's  note-book  is  merely  a  record  of  music  performed. 
There  is  a  note,  however,  on  Sunday,  Dec.  9,  1843,  which  is  amusing. 
A  Funeral  Anthem  had  been  sung  *«  for  H.M.  The  Queen  Dowager."  "  N.B. 
The  Dean  would  not  suspend  the  Choral  Service,  as  was  done  at  Trin,  and 
King's"  On  Nov.  23,  185 1,  no  such  sarcastic  note  was  possible.  Choral 
Service  was  suspended,  «<in  consequence  of  the  Death  of  the  King  of 
Hanover." 


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Upon  the  death  of  Dr  Walmisley  (1856)  the  Choirs 
were  finally  divided.  For  some  years  longer  the  same 
Lay-Clerks  continued  to  sing  at  both  King's  and 
Trinity,  but  St  John's  has  since  October  1856 
maintained  an  independent  Choir.  The  number  of 
Lay-Clerks  was  originally  six,  and  of  boys  eight. 
Choral  Services  were  held  on  Sundays,  and  on  all 
festivals  and  their  eves.  The  first  Organist  of  the 
College  under  the  new  Hgime  was  Mr  Alfred  Bennett, 
a  pupil  of  Dr  S.  S.  Wesley.  He  retained  ofiice, 
however,  only  from  June  to  December,  1856.  On 
December  31,  1856,  a  new  Organist  entered  on  his 
duties. 

G.  M.  Garrett. 


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NOTES  FROM  THE  COLLEGE  RECORDS. 

(Continued  from  j^.  15  ij . 

TURING  the  reign  of  King  James  I  Cambridge 

^^  was  favoured  with  several  royal  visits,  and 
St  John's  took  a  leading  part  in  the  festivities 
on  these  occasions. 

Prince  Charles,  and  Frederick,  Prince  Elector  Pala- 
tine (or  ^Palsgrave')  of  the  Rhine,  came  to  Cambridge 
on  January  12,  i6^|.  They  were  entertained  with 
scholastic  disputations  in  Great  St  Mary's  and  with 
the  comedy  of  the  Adelphi  at  Trinity.  The  Prince 
Elector  is  said  to  have  slept  during  the  greater  part 
of  the  entertainment,  while  Prince  Charles  was  atten- 
tive. But  on  returning  to  Newmarket  both  Princes 
complained  of  the  immoderate  length  of  the  play. 

They  were  entertained  with  great  magnificence  at 
St  John's  at  a  total  cost  of  ;^  131  6^  idy  a  large  sum 
for  those  days.  Some  extracts  from  the  Bursar's 
accounts  are  here  given. 

The  Earl  of  Pembroke  was  William,  the  third  Earl, 
son  of  Henry,  the  second  Earl,  and  Mary  sister  of 
Sir  Philip  Sidney,  who  is  commemorated  in  her  famous 
epitaph  as  *  Sidney's  sister,  Pembrolce's  mother.*  Lord 
Pembroke  was  Lord  Chamberlain  of  the  Household. 
He  was  elected  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Oxford 
in  1626,  and  Pembroke  College  there  was  named  after 
him  during  his  Chancellorship.  Clarendon  describes 
him  as  "the  most  universally  beloved  and  esteemed 
of  any  man  of  his  age."    And  Ben  Jonson  writes 

1  do  but  name  thee  Pembroke,  and  I  find 
It  is  an  epigram  on  all  mankind. 


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The  Earl  of  Southampton  was  Henry  Wriothesly,  the 
third  Earl,  attainted  for  his  share  in  Essex's  treasons 
but  restored  to  his  honours  in  1603.  To  him  Shakspere 
dedicated  his  *  Venus  and  Adonis/  *the  first  heir  of 
my  invention.' 

The  Lord  Willoughby  was  Robert,  Baron  Willoughby 
de  Eresby.  He  was  created  Earl  of  Lindsey  in  1624 
and  presided  at  the  trial  of  Strafford.  He  was 
nominated  commander-in-chief  of  the  King's  forces 
on  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion,  and  was  killed 
at  Edgehill  23  Oct.  1642. 

John  Williams,  afterwards  Lord  Keeper  and  Bishop 
of  Lincoln,  the  founder  of  our  Library,  took  a  very 
prominent  part  in  the  ceremonies  at  St  John's. 

The  pictures  of  King  James  and  of  his  Queen,  Anne 
of  Denmark,  which  the  College  purchased  on  this 
occasion  are  no  doubt  those  which  now  hang  in  the 
Lodge  and  have  been  described  by  Mr  Freeman  {Eagle 
vol.  XX.  pp.  174,  359). 

A  note  of  th'  expense  of  the  princes  Prince  Charles  &  the 
Palsgrave  their  enterteynment.    Anno  161 2. 

Imprimis:  for  glasse  plates  and  standing  bowles 
of  glasse  lost  and  broken  at  y®  banquet  and  for 
a  cupbord  of  Christall  glass  &  a  table  basket        8*»  12*    6^ 

U:  p^  to  Mr  Grenaway  of  London  for  banqueting 
stuffe  and  to  the  porters  there  for  their  carriage 
of  them  2+i»     5«    8^ 

//:  for  y«  Apothecarye's  manne  fro  London  to 
furnish  out  the  banquet  and  for  six  flaggs  of 
sylke  for  the  Marchpanes  2 1« 

//:  gyven  to  Mr  Davers  and  Mr  Lukin's  menne 
for  bringing  and  carrying  backe  of  bedding 
linnen  and  other  p'vision  of  them  borrowed 
and  to  their  mayds  for  washing  of  them  9»    6<* 

// :  for  y«  King  and  Queen's  pictures  to  hang  vp 
in  y«  Gallery  w*^  bords  and  canvas  for  their 
safe  carriage  3^»  14*    (fi 

It:  to  Ro.  Cooke  for  p'vision  of  a  table  conteyning 
2  mcsse  during  the  abode  of  the  2  Princes  18"    4*  10^ 


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It  I  To  Barth.  Wolfe  for  wyne  to  y«  banquet  and 
to  meales  at  y*  tyme  together  w*^  the  burnt 
wyne  allowed  the  three  Lords  in  their  Chambers 
at  evening  vid.  The  E.  of  Pembroke,  the 
E.  of  Southampton  the  Lord  Willoughby  w* 
their  gentlemen.  13^*  13'     9^ 

//:  to  Mr  Underwood  for  3  sugar  loves  52*     2<* 

//;  gyven  to  Mr  Mayson  for  writing  of  three 
bookes  of  verses  one  gyven  to  eyther  of  y® 
Princes  the  other  to  the  E.  of  Southampton  20* 

// ;  to  Amb.  Harrison  for  ruled  pap.  for  the  seyd 
bookes  and  for  bynding  them  in  velvet  w**» 
sylke  stringes  fringed  w*^  gold  lace  in  toto  36*     4^ 

//:  to  the    Trumpettors    soundinge   at   severall 

tymes  vpon  y«  towers  26*     8<* 

//:  to  Mr  Covin  and  Mr  Wylliams  and  their 
manne  for  themselves  and  their  horses  2  days 
to  Newmarket  to  invyte  the  nobilitye  28*     4^ 

// :  for  a  payre  of  gloves  for  Murray  the  Princes 

Schoolmaster.  3o« 


Addressed:  To  the  right  wor"  my  verie  good  cosin  M'  Doctor 
Gwyn  M'  of  St  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambridge. 

Good  cosin  I  writt  to  you  8  or  9  dayes  synce  in  the  behalf 
of  this  gentleman  at  y®  instance  of  my  deare  frend  S"^  Thomas 
Waller,  I  ame  resolved  for  no  man  lyuinge  to  presse  you  to  an 
inconvenience,  and  therefor  I  pray'd  you  that  I  might  knowe, 
whether  1  moved  that  was  fecible  both  in  respect  of  yourself 
and  the  merit  of  y*  partie.  I  find  since  vpon  further  conference 
with  Sf  Thomas  y*  our  case  is  better  then  I  conceyued  it 
to  be,  for  wee  sue  for  no  fellowship  that  is  actuallie  void,  to 
yo  preiudice  of  any  man  y*  standes,  the  place  we  ayme  at  is 
voydable  and  in  y«  hand  of  one  y*  will  not  resign  but  with 
gome  assurance  by  promise  y*  M'  Weekes  may  succeede  him 
in  it,  if  in  this  case  you  may  geue  furtherance  to  this  gentlemans 
desire  I  shall  very  hartily  thank  you  for  him,  and  in  y«  meane 
tyme  by  yo'  first  opportunitye  I  pray  you  by  a  lyne  or  two 
inable  me  to  geue  his  frindes  satisfaction  whether  they  may 
relye  vpon  your  favoure  herein. 


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I  presume  much  of  y®  vniuersities  good  carriage  in  this 
entertaynment  of  the  princes,  and  y*  you  have  all  performed 
yC  actes  with  great  comendacon  and  quitt  yo'  selves  with 
much  honor,  but  I  feare  yo»>  have  made  your  Chauncelor  too 
great  a  stranger  to  your  proiects  and  proceedinges  there  & 
I  wish  it  may  not  be  so  conceyued  but  hie  tibi  it  seemes 
something  strange  vnto  me  y*  M'  vicechancelor  sent  hither 
neither  y®  questions  nor  y®  names  of  y®  desputants  nor  yet 
what  Comedies  weare  to  be  acted,  nor  to  this  houre  any  one 
word  of  your  maner  and  progresse  in  this  entertaynement,  all 
the  intelligence  we  have  yet  receyued  came  from^  your  tenant 
Mr  Jugge  who  is  none  of  y«  best  discoursers  vpon  these 
scholasticall  exercises.  Thus  with  all  y«  good  wishes  a 
lovinge  hart  can  send  you,  in  hast  I  byd  you  hartily  farewell 
and  rest. 

Northampton  your  most  faithfullie 

house  6°  Martii  assured  loving  cosen 

1 61 2  John  Griffith 

In  March  \b\\  King  James  I  with  Prince  Charles 
came  to  Cambridge  and  stayed  at  Trinity  College. 
The  Lord  Treasurer,  the  Earl  of  Suffolk,  lived  magni- 
ficently in  St  John's  College,  and  is  said  to  have  spent 
26  tuns  of  wine  in  five  days.  His  lady  stayed  at 
Magdalene.  The  first  night's  entertainment  was  a 
play,  Aemtlta  in  Latin  by  Tho.  Cecill,  performed  by 
the  St  John's  men.  And  on  the  second  night  the 
famous  play  of  Ignoramus  by  Geo.  Ruggle,  originally 
of  St  John's,  was  acted  at  Clare.  Dr  Gwyn  seems 
to  have  taken  much  pains  in  arranging  the  spectators 
at  the  play,  and  there  are  one  or  two  letters  to  him 
on  the  subject  of  Ignoramus  among  our  Records.  It 
will  be  noticed  that  the  letters  of  Lane  and  Morton 
have  no  date,  but  they  are  indorsed  "businesse  about 
the  King's  first  cominge." 

At  this  time  Thomas  Morton  (elected  Fellow 
12  March  i59i)  was  Dean  of  Winchester,  but  he 
afterwards  became  Bishop  of  Chester  (i6i6),  of  Coventry 
and  Lichfield  (161 9),  and  finally  Bishop  of  Durham 
(1632J.     His  portrait  hangs  in  our  Hall. 


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234  Notes  from  the  College  Records. 

Robert  Lane  was  elected  Fellow  7  Apr.  1598.  The 
reference  to  Ben  Jonson  is  interesting  as  shewing 
his  connexion  with  the  College.  The  ditty,  if  written, 
does  not  appear  to  have  been  preserved. 

The  Bishop  of  Lincoln  referred  to  was  Richard 
Neale  of  whom  particulars  were  given  in  the  last 
number  of  the  Eagle  (p.  143).  Dr  Luard  informs  me 
that  Neale  was  15th  Wrangler  in  i58f. 

Full  details  of  the  royal  visit  may  be  found  in 
Mullinger*s  History  Vol.  n.  p.  516. 

There  is  especial  interest  in  the  reference  to  Dr 
Donne,  who  acquired  so  vast  a  reputation  among  his 
contemporaries  for  his  learning  and  his  powers  as  a 
preacher.  He  was  born  in  1573  of  a  Catholic  family, 
and,  though  himself  an  Anglican,  he  retained  through 
life  traces  of  his  early  training.  In  1596  he  became 
Secretary  to  Sir  Thomas  Egerton  the  then  Lord 
Keeper,  but  was  dismissed  in  1601  for  having  secretly 
married  his  patron's  niece.  Donne  was  long  proof 
against  the  wish  of  King  James  and  of  Morton 
that  he  would  take  orders,  but  he  yielded  at  last. 
Dr  Jessopp  in  the  Dictionary  of  Biography  states  that 
Donne  was  probably  ordained  on  Jan.  25,  1615,  i.e. 
two  months  before  the  Royal  visit  to  Cambridge. 
From  Lane's  letter  below,  however,  it  would  appear 
that  Donne  was  ordained  priest  about  that  time,  so 
that  his  ordination  to  the  diaconate  would  have  to  be 
put  a  year  earlier.  The  King  at  once  made  Donne 
one  of  his  chaplains,  and  expressed  the  wish  (as  appears 
from  the  letter  below)  that  on  the  occasion  of  the  visit 
to  Cambridge  (March  16 15)  Donne  should  receive 
the  D.D.  degree.  This  was  at  first  demurred  to ;  but, 
according  to  Cooper,  Donne  had  the  degree  by  mandate 
shortly  after  the  King's  departure.  Donne  was  made 
Dean  of  St  Paul's  in  162 1,  and  retained  that  position 
till  his  death  31  March  1631.  He  is  the  subject  of 
one  of  Walton's  *  Lives.'  He  wrote  some  verses, 
though,   as   Campbell  justly  said,   his  life  was   more 


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poetical  than  his  poetry;  still  this,  though  rugged, 
was  of  g^eat  beauty.  Some  quotations  will  be  found  in 
Charles  Lamb's  Specimens  of  Dramatic  Poets. 

Thomas  Plafere  was  matriculated  at  St  John's  in 
December  1576,  and  became  Fellow  in  1584.  In  1599 
he  became  Lady  Margaret  Professor  of  Divinity.  He 
had  a  great  reputation  as  a  preacher  and  for  his  fluency 
in  Latin.  He  was  asked  by  Francis  Bacon  to  translate 
his  Advancement  of  Learning  into  that  language.  He 
died  in  February  1608-9,  and  is  buried  in  St  Botolph's 
Church,  Cambridge. 

The  Dean  of  Paul's  mentioned  on  page  143  sup. 
and  in  Morton's  letter  below  was  Valentine  Gary, 
elected  Fellow  of  St  John's  1591,  afterwards  Master 
of  Christ's  16 10,  Dean  of  St  Paul's  (8  April  16 14),  and 
Bishop  of  Exeter  1621.  There  are  many  letters  from 
him  to  Dr  Gwyn  in  our  Records. 

Addressed:  To  my  very  lovinge  frend  Mr  Doctor  Gwynne 
M'  of  S*  John's  Colledge  and  Vice  Chancellor  of  the 
Vniversity  of  Cambridge    these  dd. 

deliuered  to  Owen  Evan  this  xix*^  of  Jan.  at  4  of  the 
clock  in  th'afternoon. 

Good  M'  Vice  Chancellor.  I  pray  you  take  notice  of  his 
Maiesties  iourney  at  this  tyme  to  Roiston,  and  give  order  that 
the  course  v^*^  hitherto  hath  bene  observed  for  Sermons  before 
his  Maty  may  be  continued,  that  his  Maty  may  not  fayle  of 
one  to  preach  before  him  at  the  ordinary  dayes  at  Roiston  or 
Newmarkett,  as  his  Maty  shall  happen  to  be,  soe  prepared 
and  of  such  sufficiency  as  that  Vniversity  is  accustomed  to  send 
forth  to  supply  that  place.  The  first  Sermo  that  his  Maly  will 
expect  wilbe  on  Tuesday  next.  Wherof  I  pray  you  will  let 
there  be  noe  fayle.  and  thence  that  the  vsuall  tymes  may 
be  continued  till  his  Maiesties  returne.  And  soe  I  doe  very 
hartely  bidde  you  farewell  and  rest 

ffro  the  Court  at  yo^  very  lovinge  frend 

Whitehall  this  xix**»  Pembroke 

day  of  Jan.  1615 


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236  Notes  from  the  College  Records. 

Addressed:  To  the  right  wor":  my  assured  ffrind  D'  Gwin, 
Master  of  S^  John's  College  in  Cambridge,    dd. 

S'.  I  receaued  letters  fro  our  louing  ffred  Mr  Deane  of 
Paules  wherin  by  way  of  expostulation  I  was  challenged  for 
not  vsing  his  means  in  bis  owne  house,  since  I  receaued  an 
Answer  fro  your  self  w*^  an  arrest  of  vnkyndnes  for  praeferring 
his  loue  befor  yours»  w^^  I  must  confesse  hath  been  as  ancient 
&  as  radicall  &  mutuall  between  vs  as  (I  think  yow  will  say) 
hath  been  between  any  tow.  Arnica  conteniw  nee  minus  grata. 
For  indeed  I  am  doubly  pleased,  y*  both  of  you  are  so  kyndly 
offended.  He  hath  been  satisfyed  by  conceiving  my  deuotion 
to  y«  place  of  my  nursrie,  yow  will  interpret  it  no  neglect  of 
your  self  y*  I  send  fro  Winchester  to  Pauls  when  I  had  no 
opportuitie  to  wryte  imediatly  to  Cambridge.  I  am  inioyned 
to  preach  this  next  sonday :  so^  y*  I  cannot  come  to  Cambridge 
vntill  Tewsday,  otherwyse  I  would  have  been  with  y®  first  to 
have  saluted  you  and  my  other  frendes  especially  my  Lord  of 
Chichester.  I  vnderstand  of  yo'  preparatio  for  ye  king,  Giue 
me  leaue  to  expresse  this  dutie  to  y*  place,  vid:  domini  gula 
debet  habere  cocus.  Know  therefor  y*  y®  king  delyghteth  in 
breuitie  in  his  greatest  delyghts.  etia  meo  nimis  offender.  And 
therefor  as  I  doubt  not  you  will  excell  others  in  sweetness  so 
I  pray  you  provyd,  y*  you  be  not  behind  in  shortnes.  Do 
you  not  remember  Henre  Sewell  his  comedacions  of  Doctor 
Playfere  his  sermon:  sweete,  short,  greek.  You  see  breuitie 
pleaseth  euery  pallat.  Thus  with  my  hartie  comendations  vnto 
you  I  comend  you  to  y®  protectio  of  y«  Almyghtie  &  rest  y 

Sincere  frend 
Th:  Morton 
I  pray  you  remember  me  for  a  chaber  although  it  be  of  y« 
meanest. 
London:  27 
Feb: 


Addressed:  To  y®  worp"  his  approved  good  frend  M"^  Do'  Gw)ti 
M'  of  S^  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambridg  dd.  these  w^ 
speed. 

S*".  after  my  hearty  Commends  etc.  We  got  to  London  verry 
well,  only  at  Ware  we  wer  terrifye<*  by  y®  mischance  of  a 
Norther^  traveller,  whose  legge  was  sore  hurt  w'^  a  fall  of  his 


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horse.  S'  I  receyved  yowr  letters  &  y®  inclosed  will  see 
delyvered  at  our  first  leasure.  Tomorrow  morning  being  fryday 
we  are  appoynted  to  attend  the  Lo.  treasurer,  who  we  feare 
(by  y«  conference  had  w***  his  gentleme)  expects  more  roomes 
than  we  ca  possibly  spare,  yf  we  enterte)me  such  as  wee  pourposed* 
The  vcJyce  is  y*  he  will  Comend  the  Lo.  of  Worster  to  vs,  so 
the  Bp.  of  Lyncolne  sick  in  his  bedde  of  the  stone  certyfyed 
vs.  We  wer  admitted  to  his  bedd  syde,  whet  passed  conference 
about  our  buisines.  The  verses  he  wishes  they  be  ready,  but 
doubts  ther  wilbe  no  vse  of  the.  His  desyre  is  principally 
for  y«  speach  at  his  Ma*y««  coming  to  y«  Colledge  that  it  be 
made  in  forme  of  an  oratio  w*^out  any  devise,  only  he  adviseth 
it  be  shorte,  and  above  all  y*  yourselfe  pforme  it  In  pson* 
We  asked  him  how  we  might  best  p^'sent  our  Chancellor  he 
answered  lyke  himself,  in  a  high  style,  eyther  to  fynd  him 
bread  board  &  fuell  or  els  in  money  iooi*>  to  make  his  owne 
pvision.  We  have  bene  w^  Mr  Johnson  our  musitio  and 
entreated  Ben  Johnso  to  penne  a  dyttye,  w^**  we  expect  vpo 
Satturday.  Here  is  no  great  newes  more  the  expectancy  of 
the  Censure  of  M'  Seynt  Jhon  a  west  country  gentlema.  but 
M'  Panto  told  vs  y*  in  regard  of  the  Lo.  Chancellor*  want  of 
pfect  health  it  is  put  of  vntill  Tuesday  next.  M'  Donne  Some- 
tymes  Secretary  to  y«  Lrd  Chancellor  is  entered  into  orders 
preisted  by  the  BysP  of  London  a  fortnyght  since  in  hope  of 
some  p'ferment  from  his  Ma*y.  We  heare  he  must  be  D*"^  in 
Divinity  the  next  March. 

I  spake  w*J»  Mr  Spire  by  whom  I  vnderstand  y*  the  fellow- 
ship is  growen  having  a  Schollership  also  annexed  to  it,  but 
the  Annual  revenues  so  small  as  will  scarce  mayntayne  eyther 
being  but  i2i*>  or  therabouts.  T^^  Walkingto  I  have  not  seen. 
Mr  Murrell  will  tell  you  he  hath  pted  with  his  geldinge  and 
lyes  now  weather  fast  in  y«  Green  dragon.  But  I  hope  better 
of  him.  Thus  my  duty  remembered  &  comendes  fro  my  fellow 
travellers  I  comit  you  to  god  &  rest 

Mr  Ridding  desyres  his  wyfe  your  loving  frend 

may  vnderstand  of  his  health  Rob.  Lane. 

He  is  so  busy  at  Tobacco  he 

canne  hardly  wryte 

After  this  visit  the  town  of  Cambridge  petitioned 
the  king  to  be  dignified  with  the  rank  of  a  city.    The 

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Earl  of  Suffolk,  then  Chancellor  of  the  University, 
sent  the  petition  to  Dr  Gwyn  as  Vice-Chancellor,  with 
a  covering  letter  here  appended.  Further  documents 
and  details  are  given  in  Cooper's  Annals  of  Cambridgey  ' 
Vol.  m.  See  also  MuUinger,  Vol.  11.  p.  548,  and 
Mayor-Baker,  I.  p.  203.  In  the  end  the  request  was 
somewhat  roughly  refused. 

Of  the  Earl  of  Suffolk,  Lloyd,  in  his  State  Worthies, 
says  "When  at  his  first  coming  to  Cambridge,  Mr 
Francis  Nethersole  Oratour  of  the  University  made  a 
Latine  Speeche  unto  him:  the  Lord  replied,  Though 
I  understand  not  Latine^  I  know  the  sense  of  your  Oration 
is  to  tell  me  that  I  am  welcome  to  you ;  which  I  believe 
verily :  I  thank  you  for  it  heartily ^  and  will  serve  you 
faithfully  in  anything  within  my  power.  Dr  Harsenet 
the  Vice-Chancellor  laying  hold  on  the  handle  of  so 
fair  a  Proffer,  requested  him  to  be  pleased  to  entertain 
the  King  at  Cambridge ;  a  favour  which  the  University 
could  never  compass  from  their  former  great  and 
wealthy  Chancellours :  /  will  do  it  (saith  the  Lord) 
in  the  best  manner  I  may^  and  with  the  speediest  con-- 
veniency.  Nor  was  he  worse  than  his  word,  giving 
his  Majesty  such  a  Treatment  in  the  University,  as 
cost  him  five  thousand  poimds." 

The  Earl  of  Suffolk  it  appears  was  a  Johnian.  In 
the  Baker  MSS  {Brit.  Mus.  Harl.  MSS,  7038,  fol.  259) 
there  is  this  note. 

Thomas  Wallington  B.D.  Fellow  of  St  John's  CoUedge 
his  sermon  preach'd  before  the  King,  and  dedicated  to  the 
Rt  Honble,  Lord  Thomas  Howard  Earle  of  Suffolke  &<^:  Dated 
from  my  chamber  in  St  John's  Colledge,  once  graced  with 
your  Honor's  residence  June  28:  1608.  Printed  by  Can^well 
Legge,  Printer  to  the  Univere  of  Cambridge  8vo. 

This  shows  the  Earle  of  Suffolk  to  have  been  of  St  John's 
College,  as  he  undoubtedly  was. 


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Aidressed:  To  my  Loving  freindes  the  Vice  chauncello'^  and 
Heades  of  houses  in  the  Vniu''sity  of  Cambridge  these 

Afiter  my  harty  Comendacons.  The  bearer  Mr  Maio'  of 
Cambridge  togeather  w*^  M'^  French  one  of  their  Aldermen 
haue  bene  w^  me  and  haue  acquainted  me  w^  their  intencon 
to  be  suitors  vnto  his  Ma^*«  to  dignifie  their  towne  and  make 
it  a  Cittie  as  Oxford  is.  And  so  to  renewe  their  Charter 
"w^^  such  priveledge  and  Imunities  as  shalbe  fitt  for  his  Ma^*» 
to  graunt  them,  w*^out  any  preiudice  or  wronge  to  the  Vniu'sity, 
but  rather  for  the  good  thereof  and  more  estimacon  of  the 
place  then  otherwise.  I  have  thought  good  before  there  be 
any  proceeding  in  the  buisinesi  to  wish  that  you,  and  the 
Maio'  and  his  brethren  may  meete  togeather  and  then  to 
discend  to  the  pticularities  of  what  they  intend  to  be  suito" 
for  to  his  Ma'»«.  And  yf  you  finde  that  they  seeke  nothinge 
w<*  may  be  preiudiciall  to  the  Vniu''sity  then  to  certefie  so 
much  vnto  me,  that  I  may  give  way  for  them  to  proceede  in 
their  suite.  As  also  yf  you  finde  that  it  is  intended  thereby 
to  include  any  matter  of  losse  or  disadvantage  to  the  Vniu^^sity, 
that  stay  may  be  made,  togeather  w*'*  yo'  reasons  pticulerly  for 
what  yon  finde  amisse  yf  any  such  thing  be.  ffor  I  cannot 
any  way  dislike  to  give  healpe  for  the  graceinge  and  dignifyinge 
of  the  towne  so  long  as  it  may  be  a  good  also  or  no  hurt  to 
the  Vniu'sity.  The  further  consideracon  whereof  I  leaue  vnto 
and  expect  to  heare  from  you.  And  so  w*^  my  good  wishes 
vnto  you  do  rest 

SufTolke  house  the  Yo'  very  loving  freind 

xijth  of  October  161 6.  T.  Suffolke 


To  the  Kings  most  excellent  Ma*»«. 

The  humble  peticon  of  yo'^  Ma*»  loyall  &  faithfuU  Subiects 
the  Maio'  Bayliffs  and  Burgesses  of  the  towne  of 
Cambridge. 

Most  humblie  shewinge  that  Whereas  they  are  a  very  ancient 
corporacon,  and  hould  the  towne  of  yo'  Ma*»*:  in  fee  farme, 
&  doe  enioye  divers  hereditam*®*,  franchises,  liberties  &  iuris- 
dicons  by  vertue  of  divers  Charters  &  letters  patentes,  to  them 
graunted  by  yo'  Ma**®,  and  divers  of  yo'  most  noble  progenitors 
Kinges  and  Queenes  of  this  Realme,  And  whereas  in  former 


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aancient  time  Cambridge  was  one  of  the  xviij  principall  Citties 
of  England  &  latelie  hath  ben  exceedinglie  graced  by  yo* 
highnesse  accesse. 

May  it  please  yo'  most  excellent  Ma*'«;  for  more  dignifyinge 
of  the  Vniversitie  and  this  Corporacon,  that  the  vniversitie  of 
Cambridge  &  the  corporacon  of  the  Towne  of  Cambridge,  may 
be  ranked  and  setled  in  equall  degree,  w*^  the  vniuersitie  of 
Oxford  &  "f  Cittie  of  Oxford,  &  to  that  end  to  vouchsafe  to 
renewe  the  Charters  of  the  saide  Towne,  &  thereby  to  incor- 
porate them  to  be  a  Cittie  by  the  name  of  the  Maio»^  Aldermen 
&  Cittizens  of  the  Cittie  of  Cambridge,  w***  expresse  declaracon 
that  there  shalbe  such  offices  from  tyme  to  tyme  w^  in  the 
same  Cittie  &  Corporacon  &  w*  such  liberties,  privileges, 
franchises  &  lurisdicons,  &  in  such  sorte,  as  the  Right  ho^^« 
the  Lo:  Chancello'  of  England,  now  high  Steward  of  the  said 
owne,  &  the  Lo :  Treher  of  England,  nowe  Chancello'  of  the 
vniversitie  of  Cambridge,  &  the  ho^^®  yo^  Ma*»  Attorney 
generall,  shall  thinke  mete.  Vnto  whome  may  it  please  yo' 
Ma*»«  to  referre  the  consideracon  thereof,  w*^  a  savinge  to  the 
Vniversitie  of  Cambridge,  of  all  their  liberties,  lurisdicons, 
p^^heminences  &  imunities  whatsoever.  And  yo'  said  humbe 
Peticoners,  shall  be  bounde  to  praye  to  Almightie  god,  for 
p'servacon  of  yo'  Ma*>»  in  health  longe  life  w*^  increase  of 
all  royall  renowne. 

King  James  and  Prince  Charles  came  again  to 
Cambridge  in  1624  to  give  audience  to  the  French 
Ambassadors  sent  as  envoys  to  arrange  for  the 
marriage  of  Prince  Charles  with  Henrietta  Maria. 
From  the  StaU  Papers  {Domestic)  James  I  Vol  CLXXVI 
p.  411  we  learn  that  the  ambassadors  had  audience  at 
Cambridge,  and  that  the  marriage  articles  were  signed 
in  the  presence  of  the  Prince,  the  Duke  of  Buckingham, 
and  Mr  Secretary  Conway.  The  'gallery'  referred  to 
is  doubtless  our  present  Combination-room.  The  am- 
bassadors were  M.  Ville-au-Clercs  and  the  Marquis 
d'Effiat.  Many  honours  were  paid  to  them,  and  they 
were  entertained  with  great  magnificence.  In  the  Stiite 
Papers  we  find  the  Master  of  the  Ceremonies,  Sir  Lewis 
Lewkenor,  presenting  a  bill  of  ^253  for  the  Coach  hire 


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of  the  Ambassadors  to  Cambridge.  Neale  was  now 
Bishop  of  Durham. 

Addressed:  To  y«  right  wor"  my  very  loving  ffrend  M'  D'  Guyn 
Master  of  St  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambridge  dd. 

Master  of  S*  John's.  The  sodaine  newes  of  his  Mates  coming 
to  Cambridge  on  Wednesday,  w*^  a  purpose  to  lye  there  6 
nightes  and  to  intertaine  the  ffrench  Ambassado'  there,  and 
other  thinges  therevnto  incident  w«^^  his  Matie  expecteth  to  be 
pformed  by  the  Vniversitie,  you  will  vnderstand  by  my  Ires  now 
written  vpon  comandmt  to  Mr  Vice  chancello'.  I  presume  of 
jour  loue  to  affourd  me  a  lodging  in  St  Johns  for  y^  tyme. 
I  meane  not  to  trouble  your  owne  lodginges  for  I  doubt  your 
gallery  will  be  thought  the  fittest  place  for  y«  King  to  giue 
y«  first  Audience  to  the  Ambassado"  in.  But  some  flfellowes 
chamber  will  serve  my  turae,  for  I  will  send  myne  owne  bed 
&  hangings  w«^  I  haue  here  at  Newmarkett.  If  I  could  haue 
two  chambers,  it  would  doe  me  the  more  pleasure,  that  I  might 
haue  one  roome  to  eate  in,  and  another  to  lodge  in :  ffor  I  will 
bring  my  Court  diett  w^^  me. 

I  had  forgotten  to  put  M'  Vice  chancellor  in  minde,  that 
jr«  King  stayinge  so  many  nights  at  Cambridge  there  will  be 
two  sermon  daies  there  Sonday  &  twesday:  w<*  sermons  I 
make  account  will  be  the  one  in  Kings  Colledge  Chappie, 
the  other  in  Trinity  Colledge  Chappie,  and  whether  that  y« 
Masters  of  these  Colledges  will  be  content  to  lett  strangers 
according  to  j^  list  of  y®  preachers  preach  there  I  leaue  it  to 
consideration.  This  much  in  hast.  So  with  my  hearty  comen- 
dacons  Nos  Deo.    And  I  rest 

ffrom  y«  Court  at  y  lomng  flfrend 

Newm'kett  5  Decemb.  R.  Dunblm. 

1624. 


Addressed:  To  y*  right  wor"  my  verie  Loving  frend  M'  D'  Guyn 
Master  of  S^  John's  Colledge  in  Cambridge  be  thes 
w*^  speed  dd. 

M**  of  S^  Johns.  I  heare  this  mominge  y^  order  is  heer  geuen 
to  take  vp  your  lodgings  for  y«  French  Embassadors,  &  I  am 
sorye  for  y*  troble  y*  you  must  therby  sustayne.  I  also  heare 
some  say  y^  my  L.  Keeper  is  likely  to  come  at  this  tyme  to 


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Cambridge :  if  he  doe  I  am  sure  you  will  not  suffer  him  to 
lye  from  St  Johns :  w<^^  two  considerations  make  me  to  doubt 
how  I  may  be  lodged  also  in  y«  Colledge :  though  I  had  lather 
take  y«  meanest  in  y*  Colledge  than  yo  best  elswher:  any  2 
Chambers  will  seme  my  tume,  one  for  my  bed  &  another  to 
eate  in,  and  for  my  men  to  be  in  all  y«  daye  tyme  as  for  their 
lodgings  they  may  goe  into  y«  town  all  of  them,  saue  them 
y^  lye  in  my  chamber  for  whom  I  shall  need  a  pallett.  I  haue 
purposely  sent  this  bearer  to  know  what  may  conueniently  be 
done,  y*  if  my  beinge  at  St  Johns  shall  haue  y«  lest  incon- 
ueniency  in  it,  I  may  make  bold  w*^  some  other  freinde:  I 
presume  I  may  be  very  welcome  to  the  M'  of  Caius  Colledge 
or  some  others,  but  my  hart  is  at  S^  Johns. 
You  see  how  I  assure  my  selfe  of  your  loue :  to  deale  freely 
w'^  you :  to  trouble  you :  yet  leavinge  it  to  you  to  be  as  free 
w*J>  me  to  say  it  will  or  will  not  be  And  so  w*^  my  Comenda- 
tions  remembered,  nos  DeOy  &  I  rest 

Newm^ket  your  louinge  freinde 

Decemb.  6  R.  Dunelm. 

1624 


Addressed:  For  his  ma*»®"  especyall  service. 

To  the  Right  worsh"  M'  Doctor  Guin  master  of  St 
Jhons  Colledge  in  Cambridg. 

Hast  post  hast  hast  hast  hast  &  speede 

Ware  14  Xbre 
9  a  clock  in  y« 

morning  Lewis  Lewkeno'^ 


Syr,  there  was  a  payer  of  fyne  sheetes  of  the  Kings  left  in 
the  Ambassado"  bedd,  &  a  sword  of  one  of  hys  gentlemen. 
I  entreat  you  that  you  wilbe  pleased  to  cause  them  to  be  sought 
out,  &  sent  to  my  house  in  Drury  Lane  by  the  Strand:  the 
bringer  shalbe  contented  for  his  paynes  &  I  shall  euer  rest 
Ware  14*^  you'  assured  louing  friend 

Xbre  1624  to  doe  you  service 

Lewis  Lewkenc 

On  the  death  of  the  Earl  of  Suffolk,  George  Villiers 
Duke  of  Buckingham,  the  favourite  of  King  James 


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and  King  Charles,  was  elected  Chancellor.     Bishop 
Neale,  always  anxious  that  his  College  should  be  in 
the  front,  writes   to  advise  Gwyn   of  King  Charles' 
wishes.     He  also  wrote  to  the  like  effect  to  Gostlin, 
Master  of  Gonville  and  Caius,  then  Vice-chancellor. 
The  election  was  not  popular  and  perhaps  not  a  very 
wise  one,  the  Duke  being  then  under  impeachment 
by  the  House  of  Commons,  who  were  greatly  incensed 
at  the  election.    The  Earl  of  Suffolk  appears  to  have 
been  a  popular  Chancellor,  for  Fuller  in  his  History 
remarks:  "It  argued  the  University's  affection  to  his 
memory  that  a  grand  party  therein,  unsought,  unsent, 
unsued  for,  gave  their  suffrages  for  his  second   Son 
Thomas    Earl    of   Berkshire,    though    the    Duke    of 
Buckingham  by  a  very  few  voices  carried  the  place 
of  Chancellor."     A  list  of  the  names  of  those  who 
voted    on    both    sides  is    given  in    Cooper's    Annals 
in,  185-6.    Lloyd  in  his  State  Worthies  says  that  some 
suspected  that  he  lost  the  place  "  not  for  lack  of  Voices, 
but   fair   counting   them."      The    Duke    was    greatly 
pleased  with  his  election.     He  was  admitted  March 
i6Sf ,  when  he  was  entertained  at  a  banquet  at  St  John's, 
and  we  learn  that  "  he  was  wonderful  courteous  to  all 
ScoUers  of  any  condition,  both  in  the  Regent  House, 
where  every  one  that  came  in  had  his  Grace's  Congie, 
and  in  the  Towne  as  he  walked,  if  a  man  did  but 
stirre  his  hat  he  should  not  lose  his  labour."    Cooper's 
Annals m,  198.    And  Fuller  tells  us  that  "The  Duke 
gave  the  Beadles  their  old  silver  staves  and  bestowed 
better  and  bigger  on  the  University  with  the  King's 
and  his  own  arms  insculped  thereon." 

Daniel  Ambrose  was   admitted  Fellow  27  March 
1618. 

Addressed:  To  y«  R*  wor"  my  very  loving  good  friend  M'  Docto' 
Gwyn  M'  of  S*  John's  Colledge  in  Cambridge. 

Good  Master  of  S*  John's.     In  my  loue  to  our  Mother  y« 
vniaersitie,  yo'^selfe,  and  our  Colledge,  I  cannot  conceale  from 


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30U  a  passage  w<^^  I  had  yesternight  with  his  Ma*»«  touching 
our  Chancellorship  by  occasion  of  my  Lord  of  Suffolks  death. 
Wherein  his  Ma*»®  signified  his  wishing  y*  y«  vniuersitie  woidd 
choose  my  L<^  Duke  of  Buckingham,  and  that  it  would  well 
please  Him  to  have  it  presently  effected;  by  w<^^  ouerture  of 
his  Ma*'^  Inclination  herein  I  do  conceive  y*  in  y«  doing 
thereof  we  shall  not  only  gaine  an  honorable  Chancello'^  of  y« 
Duke  of  Buckingham,  but  in  a  sort  purchase  his  Ma^®  himself 
our  Royall  Patron  and  Chancellour  in  that  we  fixe  our  Election 
vpon  Him  whom  Himself  desireth.  This  I  hold  it  my  duty 
to  impart  vnto  you,  hoping  that  you  will  by  all  good  meanes 
further  it,  and  you  may  make  y®  substance  of  this  my  letter 
knowne  to  such  of  o^  friends  as  you  think  fitt  to  sollicite  in  it. 
So  w*J»  my  very  harty  comendacons  to  yo*"  self  and  all  o^  freiends. 
Nos  Deo  and  I  rest. 

Durham  house  yo'  very  loving  friend 

May  28,  1626.  R.  Dunelm. 


Addressed:  To  his  veiye  loving  freind  M'  D'  Gwyn  M'  of 
S*  Johns  College  in  Cambridge. 

M'  D'  Gwyn.  I  vnderstand  by  my  seruant,  how  forward 
yo"  haue  beene,  not  onely  w***  yo'  own  suffrage,  but  by  yo'  best 
aduice  and  assistance  of  uoyces  in  yo'  College,  ta  agree  w**»  the 
intention  of  diuerse  others  of  my  frinds  in  Cambridge,  ia 
choosing  me  yo'  Chancellor  And  therefore  my  desier  is,  yow 
should  know,  how  thankfully  I  accept  the  expression  of  yo^  loue 
and  y*  by  this  covrtesie  yo"  haue  fastn'd  an  obligacon  vpon  me, 
w<^^  I  shall  be  reddie  vpon  an  offer  of  occasion  to  acknowledge 
and  that  I  am 

White  Hall  June  the  your  faithfull 

5**»,  1626  frend  and  seruant 

G.  Buckingham 


Addressed:  To  my  worthy  freinds  the  Master  and  Senior 
fellowes  of  St  John's  Colledge  in  the  Vniversity  of 
Cambridge,  these. 

After  my  harty  comendacons:  His  Ma*»«  having  given  order 
for  preachers  to  goe  in  eu'^y  of  his  Shipps  to  sea,  choyce  hath 
bene  made  of  M*^  Dan  Ambrose  master  of  Artes  and  fellowe  of 
yo*^  Colledge  to  be  one,  who  being  accordingly  vppon  significacon 


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from  me  come  hither,  I  thought  good  to  intimate  vnto  yo"  that 
his  Ma*»«  is  soe  carefull  of  such  SchoUers  as  are  willing  to  put 
themselves  forward  into  soe  good  accons,  as  that  he  will  expect, 
and  I  doubt  not  but  70°  will  accordingly  take  order  that  the 
said  M'  Ambrose  shall  suffer  no  detriment  in  his  place  w*  yo»» 
by  this  his  employment,  but  that  yo^  will  rather  take  care  that 
he  shall  have  all  immunities  and  emoluments  w^  advantage, 
w*'*  have  bene  form^^ly  or  may  be  graunted  to  any  vppon  the 
like  svice,  wherein  not  doubting  of  yo'  affecconate  care,  I  rest 
Yorke  house  yo'  very  loving  freind 

29  July  G.  Buckingham 

1626. 

After  these  letters  on  high  affairs  of  state  we  may 
conclude  with  two  letters  which  almost  explain  them- 
selves. The  right  of  receiving  a  copy  of  every  book 
printed  within  the  realm  was  not  conferred  on  the 
University  till  1665. 

Addressed :  To  the  right  wo'shipp^i  my  verey  lovinge  Freinde 
M'  Docto'  Gwyn  Vicechancello'  of  the  vniu'sitye  of 
Cambridge  delyu'  these* 
Good 

Mr  Vice  chaucello'  y*  semed  vnto  me  vpon  Twesdaye  last  before* 
his  Ma*<»  Judges  of  Thassisses  yo»»  were  desirous  to  be  certefied 
of  thabvses  and  wrongesdone  me  by  ScoUers  at  Chesterton 
iKrhiche  I  then  also  thought  was  to  the  ende  to  worke  reformacon 
wherefore  nowe  I  first  certefie  yo«*  of  M'  Smythe  of  yo'  owne 
CoUedge  one  of  the  Procto"  of  the  vniu'sitye  whome  yesterdaye 
being  but  Wednesdaye  and  the  next  daye  thereafter  I  (goinge 
thoroughe  my  gronnde  downe  to  Baraewell  poole)  founde  there 
wythe  his  Companye  in  a  tilted  boate  and  some  psons  also  by 
hym  hired  (as  I  conceyve)  of  purpose  vnlawfully  to  fishe  my 
waters  and  poole  wythe  a  casting  nett.  And  as  I  have  sence 
been  informed  he  had  byn  the  most  pt  of  the  aftemone  rowinge 
in  my  waters  and  doing  lyke  vnlawfull  exercise  and  also  I  was 
informed  of  many  others  in  lyke  manner  fishing  wythe  suche 
vnlawfull  nettes  that  make  comon  distrucon  of  all  manner  smale 
and  greate  fishe  what  soeu>^  to  my  particular  wronge  and  losse 
thereby,  and  to  the  gen'all  losse  and  hurt  of  the  Coirienwealthe 
in  so  abundantly  distroying  the  frye  and  broode  of  yonge  fishe 
dayley,  before  y«  be  fitt,  or  of  any  worthe  to  be  spent.  The 
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reformacon  whereof  restethe  in  yo»  (in  Cambridge)  to  restrayne 
and  forbidd  the  making  and  vse  of  these  nettes  and  to  take 
awaye  and  burae  or  otherwise  to  distroye  them  and  to  Comande 
that  no  more  of  them  be  vsed  or  made  (except  for  the  perticular 
vse  of  owners  in  the3rre  severall  pondes)  for  that  the  Meeshe 
of  eu'y  nett  to  be  vsed  for  taking  of  fishe  in  any  Ryvers  or 
streames  (saving  only  for  taking  of  Eles  &  gudgeons  &  such 
like)  ought  to  be  of  two  ynches  &  a  halfe  wyde  vpon  payne  of 
forfeyture  of  the  nettes  and  fishe  taken  and  penalties  for  takinge 
and  killinge  such  smale  frye  and  yonge  fishe  &  fynes  & 
imprisonment  to  the  partyes  as  by  the  statute  is  in  that  behalfe 
lymited  and  provided  whereof  in  part  for  satisfyinge  yo^  said 
desier  I  nowe  certefie  yo"  (but  my  selfe  for  suche  wronge 
done  me  not  to  be  concluded)  but  to  have  suche  my  further 
remedye  therefore  as  I  shall  make  choyse  of  accordinge  to  the 
lawes  of  this  Realme  for  so  vnlawfully  enteringe  my  freehold  and 
spoylinge  my  free  and  sen'  all  fishinge  by  accon  to  be  vsed  at 
my  owne  lykinge.  And  trustinge  yo"  will  therefore  take  such 
lawfuU  order  for  such  nettes  as  yo^  maye,  not  to  be  anymore 
vsed  I  rest 
7®  m'cii,  16 j6  yo«"  verey  lovinge  &  willing  frende 

John  Batissoale 


Addressed:  To  the  right  wor"  my  very  good  ffreinde  M'  D^ 
Gwynn  M'  of  S*  Johns  Colledge  and  Vice  Chancellor 
of  the  Vniuersitie  of  Cambridge  theese  be  d**. 

Good  M'  Vice  Chancellor,  longe  since  I  thought  fitt  to  send 
yo"  a  smale  pamphlett,  and  w*^  all  to  acquainte  yo»  by  the 
aduice  and  direction  of  my  best  freindes,  that  our  Vniuersitie 
sustayned  some  wronge  hauinge  not  that  priuiledge  w^^  Oxford 
hath  among  the  stationers ;  I  thought  fitt  at  that  time  to  desier 
yo*^  resolucon»  because  I  was  to  allowe  one  of  my  books  for 
theire  vse  vt^^  hitherto  I  haue  deferred,  and  will  not  part  w**" 
anie  vntill  o^  Vniuersitie  bee  admitted  to  the  like  priuiledge. 
I  doe  not  stand  soemuch  vppon  the  benefitt  w<^^  might  redounde 
vnto  V8,  w^J*  truly  may  be  very  greate  consideringe  that  manie 
books  are  yearely  printed  and  those  of  great  value,  but  especially 
for  our  credittes  sake,  that  wee  might  not  seeme  to  bee 
neglected  and  that  it  might  be  some  occasion  hereafter  to 
moove  some  good  benefact'^,   or  att  least  those  whoe  haue 


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binne  of  o^  vniu'sitie  joyntly  w*^  one  comon  consent  towardes 
the  building  of  a  publick  librarie  w<=^  was  the  course  obserued 
at  Oxfford  for  the  newe  erectinge  of  theire  schooles ;  if  the 
heades  of  o'  vniv'sitie  shall  not  think  fitt  to  intermiddle  in  the 
busines,  then  I  will  cease  anie  further  to  soUicit  yo°,  neither  is 
it  for  mee  beinge  one  single  man  to  oppose  myselfe  against 
the  orders  of  the  stationers,  but  I  must  yealde  vnto  them» 
though  uerie  vnwillingly  etc. ;  thus  w*^  remembraunce  of  my 
kinde  love  vnto  yo",  with  my  prayers  for  yo'^  health  and 
happines  I  comitt  yo°  to  god  and  rest 
from  Stapleford  Abbattes  yor'  louing  ffreinde  to  bee 

Septemb  5^  161 6  Comaunded 

Godfrey  Goodma 

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^ENDAL  Dyke  is  a  winding  stream  opening  into 
the  north  bank  of  the  Thume  a  mile  above 
Potter  Heigham  bridges.  This  narrow  channel 
in  a  few  hundred  yards  leads  into  Heigham  Sounds, 
once  a  fairly  wide  expanse  of  water,  but  now  reduced 
extensively  by  the  ingrowth  of  reeds  on  both  sides, 
which  leave  only  a  narrow  track,  shallow  except  in 
the  sailing  channel.  The  banks  of  tall  reeds  extending 
for  fifty  yards  or  more  into  the  water  render  it  impossible 
to  land  anywhere,  and  the  openings  now  and  then 
into  wider  expanses,  with  isolated  masses  of  reeds 
rising  above  the  surface,  give  the  scene  a  wild  and 
desolate  character. 

In  a  mile  the  Sounds  lead  by  a  narrow  dyke  on 
the  east  to  Horsey  Mere,  and  further  on  by  another 
on  the  north  to  Hickling  Broad,  sL  sheet  of  water 
nearly  two  square  miles  in  extent,  but  much  encroached 
on  by  reeds,  which  form  numerous  bays,  promontories, 
and  islands. 

To  sail  a  yacht  up  the  Sounds  is  not  very  easy, 
as  the  channel  is  not  more  than  four  feet  deep,  and 
where  it  lies  can  only  be  learnt  by  experience;  but 
as  we  had  once,  after  much  wet  weather  in  March, 
taken  a  ten-tonner  on  to  Hickling,  we  decided  that 
the  Palmer  should  go  too,  and  that  we  would  trust 
to  getting  a  small  sailing-boat  at  Hickling  Staithe, 
on  the  further  side  of  the  Broad.  With  a  smart  east 
wind  on  the  beam,  we  came  along  Kendal  Dyke  and 
the  Sounds,  carefully  picking  out  the  deep  water  as  we 


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sailed  along,  and  anchored  at  the  entrance  of  the 
Broad.  Nimrod  and  I  set  out  in  the  jolly-boat  to 
row  across  to  the  Pleasure-Boat  Inn  for  bread  and 
beer,  as  we  thought  it  better  not  to  venture  across 
with  the  yacht,  although  we  had  once  succeeded 
with  a  boat  of  3J  foot  draught,  and  that  was  at  night, 
too.  It  was  thus-wise.  We  had  had  a  wet  time  tacking 
up  the  Sounds  one  afternoon  in  March,  having  passed 
through  a  dense  blinding  snow-storm,  and  had  laid 
up  at  the  entrance  to  Hickling  for  the  night.  About 
8  o'clock  the  weather  cleared  up,  and  I  proposed  we 

should  sail  across  the  Broad  to  the  Inn.    B readily 

agreed,  as  he  generally  does  to  foolhardy  propositions, 
so  we  cast  off  and  got  on  to  the  Broad.  We  could 
see  the  posts  that  mark  out  the  channel  fairly  well 
at  first,  and  with  a  light  north  breeze  on  the  beam 
we  made  the  first  mile.  The  channel  then  turns 
suddenly  to  the  north,  we  started  tacking,  and  imme- 
diately ran  aground.  We  got  oflF  with  the  quant, 
and  made  another  start,  but  before  we  went  about 
we  were  aground  again.  We  amused  ourselves  in 
this  way  eight  or  ten  times  for  an  hour,  then  came 
to  the  obvious  conclusion  that  the  channel  was  too 

narrow  to  tack  in.    B then  started  quanting,  and 

worked  us  into  less  and  less  water  till  the  yacht  was 
fairly  stuck.  There  we  were,  in  the  middle  of  the 
Broad,  thermometer  about  zero,  on  an  absolutely  black 
night,  with  nothing  to  be  distinguished  anywhere  but 
the  light  at  the  Inn,  nearly  a  mile  oflf.  It  looked 
like  a  night  out,  but  I  set  out  with  the  jolly-boat  to 
look  for  the  channel,  and  then  after  much  labour  with 
the  quant  and  the  tow-line  we  got  into  deeper  water. 
I  took  a  long  line ,  out  ahead  to  look  for  the  posts, 
and  so  by  pushing  and  pulling  we  made  the  creek 
at  eleven,  and  went  straight  into  the  Inn  to  dry 
ourselves.  In  front  of  the  kitchen  fire  were  two  large 
clothes-baskets,  one  contained  twins,  the  other  goslings, 
but  there  was  room  enough  round  the  capacious  grate 


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for  us,  cold,  wet,  and  thirsty  pleasure-seekers.  At  12.30 
we  turned  out  again :  it  was  snowing  fast,  there  was 
an  inch  or  more  on  the  ground,  the  yacht  was  without 
an  awning,  the  cabin  open,  and  for  an  hour  the  snow 
had  been  beating  in  on  to  our  rugs  and  blankets. 
I  shall  probably  not  be  believed  when  I  say  that 
that  night  we  did  not  sleep  at  the  Inn. 

Nimrod  and  I  got  provisions  and  a  very  neat 
balance-lug  boat  from  Beales,  and  had  three  or  four 
good  spins  up  and  down  the  Broad,  though  we  thought 

it  rather  rough  to  leave  B with  nothing  to  do, 

and  with  no  entertainment  but  what  a  yellow-back 
could  aflFord.      But  when  we  ran  into  the  dyke  we 

saw  how  we  had  been  deceived  by  B 's  words, 

"I'll  lie  down  a  bit,  while  you  fellows  get  the  boat 
and  the  beer."  He  had  taken  up  the  anchors,  set 
the  sails,  and  bolted.  We  gave  chase  down  the  Sound 
and  came  up  with  him  in  Kendal  Dyke,  and  con« 
gratulated  him  on  the  smart  way  he  had  handled  the 
yacht  alone. 

The  next  morning  there  was  a  strong  north-easter 
blowing,  and  as  it  was  an  opportunity  to  see  what 
could  be  done,  Nimrod  and  I  tacked  the  yacht  back 
again   to    the   Broad,   very   nearly   running   aground 

several  times  in  the  narrow  channel,  while  B was 

in  the  balance-lug,  with  as  much  as  he  could  do, 
sitting  on  the  gunwale,  to  keep  the  water  out  of  her. 
Later  on,  he  and  I  had  a  lively  time  of  it  taking  the 
boat  back  to  the  Inn.  Instead  of  having  two  reefe 
in  her  sail  we  started  to  tack  across  with  all  canvas 
out,  and  we  found  that  with  towing  our  large  jolly- 
boat  it  was  difficult  to  keep  good  way  on,  although 
we  were  both  sitting  on  the  gunwale  to  keep  the 
water  from  coming  in  on  the  lee.  One  yesir  we  took 
a  balance-lug  from  Applegate  and  stood  out  in  a  worse 
north-easter  than  this ;  we  had  fiiUy  reefed  down,  and 
all  three  of  us  were  in  the  bottom  of  the  boat,  one 
at  the  halyard,  another  at  the  sheet,  and  the  third 


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at  the  tiller,  yet  she  took  in  water  at  the  lee  and 
filled  as  we  conveniently  blew  into  the  bank.  We 
had  gone  out  for  a  wetting  and  we  got  it. 

When  we  ran  down  the  Thume  from  Potter  Heigham 
to  Hickling  there  was  a  strong  north-east  gale  of 
sleet  and  rain  blowing,  and  not  a  sail  was  to  be  seen 
on  the  rivers.  We  took  in  all  our  reefs,  and,  with 
peak  down,  ran  before  the  gale  the  eight  miles  to 
Acle.  We  were  up  late  the  next  morning,  and  decided 
to  breakfast  en  rouUy  as  we  wanted  to  get  through 
Yarmouth  before  the  tide  was  against  us. 

This   morning   it   was   B 's   turn   to   wash  up. 

His  method  is  worth  recording.  He  first  spreads 
out  the  ten  or  twelve  greasy  plates  and  dishes  over 
the  stem  sheets,  and  the  cups,  knives,  forks,  &c.  over 
the  decks  till  there  is  no  place  to  stand  on,  and  then 
covers  everything  firom  a  packet  of  Hudson's  Extract 
of  Soap,  a  dozen  packets  of  which  we  take  with  us, 
then  swabs  them  with  the  mop,  and  having  swilled 
every  thing  in  the  river,  leaves  us  to  wipe  what  has 
not  gone  to  the  bottom.  This  morning  he  was  careful, 
he  only  lost  one  plate.  There  is  another  method 
of  washing  up  which  we  owe  to  the  ingenuity  of  a 
Johnian.  It  consists  of  shutting  up  all  the  things  in 
a  hamper  and  then  towing  them  behind  for  an  hour  or 

so.    B and  I  hate  cooking,  but  Nimrod  apparently 

likes  it,  so  we  let  him  do  it  all,  and  he  does  it  willingly ; 
this,  I  believe,  is  because  he  once  tasted  one  of  our 
stews.  So  Nimrod  started  getting  breakfast  in  the 
cabin,  and  we  did  the  sailing.  There  was  an  extra 
gust  on  one  of  the  tacks,  and  Nimrod,  who  was  frying, 
made  a  dash  to  save  the  kettle  which  was  tottering 
on  its  oil  stove.  The  kettle  was  not  saved.  We 
would  have  put  up  with  boiling  water  on  the  floor 
of  the  cabin,  but  that  was  not  all,  the  frying-pan 
upset  too,  and  just  as  the  eggs  and  bacon  were  done 
to  a  turn.  We  tie  the  kettle  on  now  when  we  are 
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252  On  the  Broads  in  March. 

Near  Yarmouth  we  passed  six  or  seven  wherries 
coming  out  with  the  tide  and  wind.  They  were  sailing* 
at  a  great  pace,  each  with  its  enormous  black  sail, 
stretching  far  out  on  the  lee  and  carried  high  in  the  air 
by  the  very  long  gaff.  They  are  vessels  of  about 
thirty-tons  burden,  and  used  for  trade  chiefly  from 
Yarmouth  and  Norwich.  They  are  fast  and  sail 
extremely  close  to  the  wind.  The  mast  is  stepped  in 
the  bows  and  is  without  shrouds  of  any  kind.  The 
single  sail  is  run  up  by  one  halyard  only  for  the  gaff 
and  peak,  and  there  is  no  boom. 

We  tacked  between  them  as  they  sailed  down  on  us, 
no  easy  task  in  a  narrow  reach,  as  one  cannot  then  pass 
on  a  wherry's  lee,  its  large  sail  often  filling  the  river  i 
and  crossing  her  bows  requires  considerable  Judgment 
of  relative  speeds.  What  little  we  know  we  have 
learnt  by  the  dire  experience  of  a  collision  or  two,  and 
many  narrowly  avoided  ones. 

When  we  were  through  the  bridges  at  Yarmouth, 
we  fetched  up  alongside  a  shrimper,  set  the  mast  and 
hoisted  the  canvas,  and  had  a  magnificent  sail  across 
Breydon  at  nearly  fiill  tide.  After  passing  Reedham 
the  wind  began  to  drop,  but  we  got  on  past  Cantley 
Red  House,  where  we  were  cheered  as  the  first  yacht 
of  the  season  to  Langley  Priory.    When  Nimrod  and 

I  returned  from  a  visit  to  the  few  ruins,  B had 

only  taken  hqr  on  half-a-mile,  so  after  dinner,  as  we 
wanted  to  get  up  to  Norwich  that  night,  we  decided 
to  sail  all  night.  At  nine  o'clock  two-hour  watches 
were  called;   I  took  the  first  watch  from  9   till    11. 

B and  Nimrod  were  soon  fast  asleep,  tired  out  with 

our  previous  day's  work.  I  shut  up  the  cabin  doors, 
and  drew  over  the  hatch  completely,  so  that  no  light 
should  come  from  the  cabin  to  blind  me  and  prevent 
me  from  making  out  what  I  could  of  the  banks  and 
bends  of  the  river.  The  few  wherries  that  sail  by 
night  never  carry  lights,  so  a  sharp  look-out  has  to  be 
kept,  but  their  large  black  sails  looming  in  the  dark- 


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ness  are,  curiously  enough,  more  easily  seen  than  white 
sails.    There  was  not  much  wind,  but  I  got  on  a  mile 

or  so,  and  at  11,  having  called  out  B ,  I  threw  off 

my  oils  and  was  soon  fast  asleep,  notwithstanding  the 

rattling  of  the  ropes  on   the  cabin  roof  by  B 's 

tacking.  I  seemed  to  have  been  asleep  only  a  minute 
when  Nimrod  woke  me  at  3  for  my  second  watch. 
The  yacht  was  then  aground,  and  the  wind  had  quite 
dropped,  so  we  decided  to  lay  up.  We  threw  an  anchor 
out  and  started  to  get  the  sails  down.  It  was  very  cold 
and  difficult  to  work  on  the  decks,  as  for  some  time 
it  had  been  freezing,  and  they  were  very  slippery  and 
the  ropes  stiff,  but  in  half-an-hour  all  was  snug  and 
the  tarpaulin  over. 

On  our  first  look  round  in  the  morning  we  were 
much  puzzled  with  our  whereabouts,  the  confusion  being 
due  to  the  very  rash  assumption  that  our  bows  were 
pointing  up  stream  towards  Norwich,  but  when  we 
realised  that  this  was  not  the  case  we  saw  we  were 
near  Coldham  Hall.  The  night's  sail  had  advanced 
us  less  than  four  miles  of  the  thirty  for  the  day  from 
Acle.  How  long  Nimrod  had  been  sailing  back 
towards  Yarmouth  before  he  ran  aground  it  would 
be  dangerous  to  ask.    Now  this  was.  the  only  occasion 

when  any  of  us  except  B ran  us  aground.    Absolute 

darkness,  a  falling  tide  and  no  wind  to  keep  way  on, 
are  not  necessary  for  a  grounding  when  he  is  steering. 
It  is  his  da.\!Ly  pasiime.    When  we  want  to  make  a  fast 

run  B >  insists  on  doing  the  tacking,  and  he  gets 

on  very  well  for  a  time,  then  he  tacks  a  few  inches 
closer  in  to  the  banks,  or  ventures  a  foot  or  two  further 
on  a  draw,  runs  aground,  and  we  lose  half-an-hour.  In 
some  parts  of  the  Bure  the  banks  are  deep  and  the 
yacht  can  be  brought  right  in,  and  the  stem  swung 
round  to  brush  the  sedges  or  the  grass;  but  in  some 
parts  of  the  Norwich  river  one  cannot  venture  within 

20  feet  of  the  bank.    The  latter  river  is  B 's  favourite 

resort.    He  has  probably  spent  more  time  on  its  mud 

VOL.  XVI.  LI. 


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than  anyone  else.    B admits  that  he  does  sometimes 

run  aground,  but  maintains  that  it  is  he  that  always  gets 
the  yacht  off  again.     "The  first  thing  to  do  is  to  get 

her  bows  off,"  said  B ,  "you  fellows  stop  aft,  I'll 

go  forward  with  the  quant."  Ten  minutes  work 
produced  no  result.  Then  we  put  our  united  weights 
on  to  the  quant.     Still  no  result.     This  was  because 

the  quant  was  a  good  one.     B said'  he  had  not 

enough  leverage,  so  he  went  out  on  to  the  end  of  the 
bowsprit,  which  is  the  position  from  which  he  evidently 
likes  to  take  his  quanting  exercise,  while  we  ran 
forward  and  aft,  then  from  port  to  starboard  to  loosen 
her  from  her  bed.  Still  no  result.  The  bowsprit  was 
evidently  a  strong  one. 

When  our  friend  Prest  once  tried  this  acrobatic 
performance  there  was  a  result,  and,  as  is  usually  the 
case,  it  was  an  unexpected  one :  Prest  and  the  bowsprit 
parted  company,  the  water  was  only  2  feet  deep;  but 
he  said  that  the  chief  thing  that  annoyed  him  was 
that  his  pipe,  which  did  not  leave  his  mouth,  was  filled 
with  mud. 

As  we  were  on  a  windward  bank  we  hoisted  the 
jib  and  hauled  the  weather  sheet  down  hard,  to  get 
what  aid  we  could,  and  I  landed  to  push  fi-om  the  bank. 
Leaning  well  forward  over  the  river  the  quant  was 
just  long  enough,  but  I  did  not  move  her  an  inch,  and 
in  trying  to  recover  myself  I  fell  in ;  with  the  water 
over  my  boots  I  could  get  a  better  purchase,  but  still 
I  made  no  impression.  B and  Nimrod  got  the  jolly- 
boat  round  between  the  bank  and  the  yacht,  and  we 
all  three  put  our  strength  simultaneously  on  to  the 
quant.  Still  no  result.  We  then  tried  to  lift  her  bows, 
to  rake  away  some  of  the  mud,  to  move  her  stern, 
to  push  her  aft  or  forward,  on  to  the  bank  or  anywhere, 
but  she  had  so  settled  down  that  all  our  efforts  were 
in  vain.  In  such  an  extremity  as  this  we  had  once 
succeeded  by  all  of  us  getting  into  the  water  and 
actually  lifting  her  out  of  her  hole,  but  that  was  not 
in  March. 


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There  is  a  plan  which-  sometimes  is  very  useful 
in  a  narrow  reach.  .  I  learnt  it  from  a  wherryman  who 
helped  us  out  of  a  difficulty  five  years  ago  in  Heigham 
Sounds.  We  were  tacking  up  the  Sounds  with  a  smart 
head  wind,  there  was  a  new  hand  at  the  helm,  "  tiller 
down"  was  called,  he  put  it  hard  up  and  the  yacht 
rushed  into  the  large  expanse  of  reeds  which  border 
the  Sounds  on  both  sides  and  form  its  chief  attraction. 
We  ran  so  far  in,  and  the  reeds  were  so  high, 
that  we  could  only  see  out  along  the  track  we  had 
made.  One  of  us  set  out  in  the  jolly  boat  and  was 
lucky  enough  to  find  a  wherryman.  The  first  thing 
he  did  was  to  take  out  two  lines,  and  with  a  clove-hitch 
fixed  one  to  a  bunch  of  reeds  on  the  near  side  of  the 
Sound,  and  the  other  to  a  bunch  on  the  far  side ;  then 
with  all.  hands  at  the  two  lines  and  the  two  quants 
he  got  us  out  along  our  own  channel. 

We  had  done  two  hours'  work  and  decided  to 
wait  for  the  tide,  and  had  just  settled  down  for  a 
rest  when  we  heard  the  short  snort  of  a  steam- 
engine.  In  the  distance  we  could  see  the  two  masts 
of  a  vessel  passing  slowly  up  the  reaches  lower  down. 
She  proved  to  be  a  smack  of  about  150  tons,  being 
towed  from  Yarmouth  to  Norwich.  So  large  a  vessel 
is  a  very  striking  sight  eighteen  miles  inland.  She 
was  a  god-send  to  us,  we  had  out  the  quant  again 
at  once,  and  as  the  swell  reached  us  we  brought  a 
few  well-timed  thrusts  to  bear,  our  yacht  was  lifted 
firom  her  bed  by  the  wash,  and  we  got  away  from 
our  resting  place  of  the  last  eight  hours.     I  hauled 

up  the  main-sheet,  Nimrod  set  the  jib,  and  with  B 

at  the  tiller  we  sailed  a  hundred  yards,  then  there  was 
a  bend  in  the  river,  we  entered  a  foul  reach,   and 

B began  at  once  to  tack.     On  the  third  tack  he 

ran  us  aground  in  a  bank  of  reeds.     We  looked  at 

B ,  we  said  nothing,  it  was  what  we  had  expected, 

we  knew  she  was  hard  aground,  but  we  satisfied  our- 
selves on  the  point,   then  went  straight  in  and  had 


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lunch.  All  the  morning  the  wind  had  been  firesheningf, 
and  now  several  wherries  were  to  be  seen  on  the 
horizon  with  their  peaks  lowered.  One  wherry,  coming* 
down  and  trying  to  make  the  reach  in  which  we 
lay,  made  four  tacks  without  getting  past,  and  after 
nearly  colliding  with  us  each  time  lay  to  on  the 
opposite  bank.  We  then  got  to  work  again  with  the 
quant  and  in  a  quarter  of  an  hour  we  got  her  ofif, 
the  wind  suddenly  caught  her  sails,  the  fall  of  the 
main-sheet  was  carried  overboard,  but  I  managed  to 

keep  the  boom  in,  while  B ran  forward  to  secure 

a  jib  block  that  had  carried  from  its  strop;  and  so 
with  Nimrod  stowing  the  quant  all  hands  were  occu- 
pied, yet,  with  a  foot  on  the  tiller,  we  managed  not 
to  lose  a  tack,  and  in  three  "abouts"  we  were  out 
of  the  reach,  and  made  a  fast  run  of  ten  miles  to 
Reedham.  Here  we  entered  the  New  Cut,  and  with  a 
spanking  sou'wester  on  the  beam  made  the  four  miles 
to  Herringfleet  swing  bridge  at  a  great  rate.  The 
bridge  was  closed  and  we  had  to  stop.  It  was  not 
easy,  but  we  crept  along  the  windward  bank,  and 
with  the  weather  jib  sheet  in  and  the  tiller  down,  we 
took  her  way  off  in  the  soft  mud;  I  jumped  on  to 
the  bank  and  held  the  bowsprit,  and  of  course  she 
headed  to  wind  across  the  river.  In  a  few  moments 
the  bridge  was  opened ;  I  wished  to  bring  her  round 

one  way,  B the  other,  so  we  both  shouted  orders 

to  Nimrod,  who  obeyed  us  both,  with  the  result  that 
she  ploughed  fiirther  and  further  into  the  bank.     I 

then  let  B have  his  own  way,  but  he  got  excited 

and  gave  the  wrong  orders,  which  Nimrod,  entering 
thoroughly  into  the  joke,  obeyed  with  alacrity,  and 
sent  us  again  into  the  bank.  In  the  end  we  had 
to  run  back  a  bit  down  the  Waveney  and  turn  again. 
We  ran  on  then  to  the  Beccles  river,  and  I  began 
to  treat  Nimrod  to  my  local  knowledge.  He  seemed 
to  take  no  interest  when  I  told  him  we  were  there 
sailing   the    **heel  and  hole,"    and    should    soon  be 


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running  up  the  "barber's  pole";  but  it  was  an  evil 
day  for  me  when  he  insisted  on  trying  if  my  red 
colouring  was  any  use,  for  he  certainly  proved  that 
most  of  the  places  where  I  had  put  red  colour  on 
the  map  were  full  of  water  and  in  several  blue  places 
we  were  ploughing  up  the  mud.  I  think  I  shall 
interchange  the  signification  of  the  colours. 

That  night  we  laid  up  at  Burgh  Staithe,  close  to 
the  Church  of  Burgh  St  Peter.  Here  there  are  some 
old  stakes  just  below  water  level,  and  as  the  tide  was 
on  the  ebb  we  moved  the  yacht  oflF  a  little.  We  were 
not  desirous  of  settling  on  them,  as  some  of  our  friends 
did  once,  and  in  the  morning  their  yacht  was  full 
of  water,  mud,  and  growling.  We  had  just  made 
snug  for  the  night  when  a  boat  rowed  up  and  we 
were  greeted  by  a  cheery  voice.  "Do  you  fellows 
want  anything  I  can  let  you  have  ?"  Now  we  did 
want  a  loaf  badly,  for  we  had  tried  the  Waterside  Inn 
an4  a  cottage  without  success.  "Well,  then,  come 
up  to  my  house,  I  have  no  doubt  I  can  manage  it  for 
you,  come  at  nine/'  and  the  man  disappeared.  We 
agreed  he  must  be  the  parson.  On  enquiry  at  the 
Inn  we  learnt  the  Rectory  was  a  mile  away.    It  was 

a  very  dark  night,  but  B- and  I  started  off.    The 

first  place  we  tried  was  a  bam,  at  the  second  place 
we  were  mistaken  for  burglars,  but  when  we  found 
the  house  the  parson  himself  opened  the  door,  and 
the  light  of  the  hall-lamp  fell  as  far  as  mud  would 
allow  on  to  my  Lady  Margaret  longs.  "Ah,  I  see 
you  are  a  Johnian,  so  am  I,  come  in,"  were  his  first 
words.  A  right  good  welcome  he  gave  us,  and  we  were 
not  sorry  to  sit  by  a  comfortable,  fire  in  his  study  with 
our  pipes  and  hear  the  old  college  jokes.  Our  host 
had  been  a  rowing  man,  and  proudly  showed  us  the 
brass  buttons,  stamped  with  the  Eagle  and  Si  je  puisy 
of  the  pea-jacket,  that  was  worn  over  the  blazer  to 
go  down  to  the  river  in  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago. 
"The  jacket  itself,"  he  sadly  remarked,  "has  only  just 


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followed  the  dear  old  blazer,  which  has  been  worn  away 
years  ago."  "  Are  you  allowed  to  have  a  cask  of  beer 
in  college  now  ? "  he  enquired.  "  In  my  time  they  had 
to  be  brought  in  from  Matthews'  in  a  big  hamper: 
of  course  the  Dean  knew  what  was  in  the  hamper; 
but  it  was  always  done  in  that  way."  "After  tea 
we  had  to  come  in  with  a  cap  and  gown  on,  I  suppose 
you  have  to  now.  Ah !  often  have  six  of  us  borrowed 
a  cap  and  gown  from  Vinter^s  and  knocked  in  late; 
one  man  would  have  the  gown  on,  go  just  through 
the  gate,  then  take  it  off  and  pass  it  out  to  the  next 
man,  and  he  would  come  in  with  a  cap  and  gown  on, 
and  immediately  pass  it  out  to  the  third,  and  so  on; 
I  suppose  the  undergraduates  do  the  same  now." 

The  Rector  had  a  splendid  lo-ton  cutter  at  Oulton, 
on  board  of  which  he  would  spend  much  of  his  spare 
time  in  summer,  and  it  was  sometimes  his  custom  to 
sleep  many  nights  together  on  board,  sailing  or  rowing 
to  his  parish  work  daily.  Two  pleasant  hours  were 
quickly  passed,  as  he  was  a  cheery  talker,  ftiU  of 
reminiscences  and  of  anecdotes,  and  he  was  clearly 
very  sorry  when  we  left,  "I  never  see  anyone  now, 
in  this  isolated  spot,  and  it's  a  great  pleasure  to  me 
when  I  stumble  on  people  to  tell  me  how  the  world 
is  getting  on,  especially  the  Cambridge  world,"  he 
said,  as  he  lent  us  a  large  red  lantern  to  help  us  back, 
and  warmly  wrung  our  hands  at  his  garden  gate.* 

It  froze  very  hard  that  night,  and  we  had  to  break 
the  ice  in  our  jolly  boat  to  get  our  morning  tub.  An 
excellent  tub  our  jolly-boat  was  in  more  senses  than 
one.  The  morning  plunge  in  the  river  from  a  big 
yacht  in  March  has  only  one  drawback ;  the  dive  in  is 
pleasant  enough,  but  one  cannot  get  out  again  fast 
enough.  So  our  jolly-boat,  which  could  be  used  either 
for  a  sieve  on  land  or  for  a  tub  in  water,  came  in  for 


♦  Rev  William  Boycott  (B.A.  1865),  Rector  of  Burgh  St  Peter,  died 
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regular  morning  use  the  last  two  or  three  days.      I 
found  I  had  left  my  sponge  on  deck  all  night,  so  I  had 

a  most  exhilarating  rub  down  with  ice  crystals. 

•  «  « 

That  evening,  after  a  smart  run  from  Beccles,  the 
Palmer  was  riding  at  her  old  moorings  on  Oulton 
Broad  after  a  spin  of  147  miles.  ^^I  am  glad  to  see 
you  back,"  said  Wilson,  "  you  have  had  a  very  rough 
week  of  it.  What  damages  have  you  done :  I  don't  mind 
a  rope  or  two  gone,  but  is  her  hull  all  right  ? "  But 
Wilson  could  find  nothing  the  matter,  except  that  there 
was  no  string  to  one  of  the  cabin  curtains.  "  I  know'd 
them  gents  would  be  all  right,"  said  Mark.  "  I  see'd 
they  be  old  soldiers,  'cos  they  alius  swabs  up  one  job 
afore  they  begins  another." 

L.  E.  S. 


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"LENTEN   INDULTS." 


;T  may  be  interesting  to  readers  of  the  EagU^ 
^  who  have  enjoyed  a  good  laugh  over  Professor 
Mayor's  contribution  ^^ Resident Esuriales  Ferias'* 
in  the  March  number,  to  be  told  a  little  more  about 
the  famous  letter  over  which  the  Saturday  Review 
went  into  the  broadest  grins  and  chaffed  unmercifiilly 
the  poor  Editor  of  the  Cambridge  Independent  Press. 

It  was  in  the  Lent  of  1863  (I  believe)  that  the 
unwise  Protestant  element  in  the  University  frothed 
up  to  the  surface  in  the  columns  of  the  Independent 
Press,  The  English  Chiirch  Union  had  been  founded 
three  years  before ;  more  than  one  leading  "  Puseyite  '* 
was  included  in  the  list  of  Wednesday  Evening 
Preachers  at  Great  St  Mary's;  there  was  much  to 
disquiet  the  Protestant  mind  in  the  revival  of  Lenten 
Discipline,  in  the  more  frequent  Celebrations  of  the 
Blessed  Sacrament,  in  Mid-day  Meetings  for  Inter- 
cessory Prayer.  Letters,  many  and  marvellous,  attacked 
these  "  relics  of  Popery,*'  and  called  on  all  who  were 
true  to  the  Reformation,  and  loved  "  our  incomparable 
Liturgy,"  to  defend  the  "Protestant  Faith,"  whose 
very  foundations  were  being  undermined  by  traitors 
within  the  fold  of  "our  Beloved  Protestant  Church." 

Among  the  earliest  Members  of  the  English  Church 
Union  was  Vernon  WoUaston  Hutton,  then  an  under- 
graduate at  Trinity.  It  was  he  who  wrote  the  famous 
letter.  Two  or  three  of  his  intimate  friends  knew 
all  about  it  and  were  eagerly  expectant;  but  when 
on  the  Friday  morning  it  did  not  appear  we  felt  that 
the  hoax  had  been  seen  through,  although  as  little  time 


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"  Lenien  InduUs^  261 

as  possible  had  been  given  the  Editor,  for  the  letter  was 
only  delivered  (as  Professor  Mayor  says)  on  the 
previous  afternoon.  I  was  sitting  in  Henry  Bradshaw's 
rooms  in  King's  on  the  following  Friday,  when  some 
one  burst  in  with  the  Independent  Press  in  his  hands, 
and  there  in  all  its  patent  and  delightful  absurdity 
was  the  letter,  notes  and  all.  But  the  joke  had  been 
added  to  by  the  compositor.  Hutton  had  written 
lineam  denarto  scribunt^  but  his  writing  was  not  always 
easy  to  read,  and  the  delicious  alteration  to  linum 
denarto  sinbrtnt  made  him  laugh  as  heartily  as  any 
one  at  the  extraordinary  ignorance  and  credulity  which 
could  pass  such  a  sentence.  We  had  all  thought 
that  some  of  the  jokes  were  a  little  too  glaringly 
absurd;  a  Lateran  Council,  held  at  Pompetiy  A.D.  246, 
when  as  every  school-boy  knew  the  town  had  been 
overwhelmed  by  the  eruption  of  A.D.  79  ;  Lenten  Indults 
"not  only  unknown"  but  actually  condemned;  "Mr 
Thomas  Carlyle's  eloquent  and  exhaustive  Defence  of 
the  Ntcene  Creed" ;  St  Augustine  Contra  fidem  edited 
by  Dr  Pusey;  arguments  about  the  keeping  of  Lent 
in  the  Platonic  Dialogtces  ;  "  Tupper  and  Jones  "  among 
the  "  best  critics " ;  and  the  too  palpable  alliteration 
of  "  precursors  of  prelacy,  priestcraft,  and  pantheism :  " 
these  were  so  "  gross  as  a  mountain,  opeji,  palpable," 
that  it  were  no  wonder  if  Mr  Editor  had  spotted  them. 
The  delicate  satire  of  "If  all  had  behaved  as  you 
and  your  Protestant  correspondents  have  done  during 
the  last  six  weeks,  I  have  no  doubt  but  that  true 
Church  principles  would  have  been  much  more  popular 
than  they  are  at  present"  might  pass,  but  the  rest  it 
was  feared  had  proved  too  clearly  ludicrous.  Yet 
at  the  end  of  eight  days  the  whole  lovely  hoax 
appeared.  Vernon  Hutton  was  very  warmly  con- 
gratulated ;  Mr  Editor  tried  to  get  out  of  it  by  saying 
he  had  been  away  from  home:  but  the  joke  was  too 
good  to  be  explained  away,  and  the  Saturday  Review 
gave  it  full  notoriety. 

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262  ^*  Lenten  Indults." 

Mr  Hutton  was  ordained  to  Canon  Grregfory's 
Curacy  at  St  Mary  the  Less,  Lambeth,  in  1865,  and 
in  1868  was  appointed  by  Lord  Man  vers  to  the 
Vicarage  of  Sneinton,  Nottingham.  Bishop  Words- 
worth presented  him  to  the  Prebendal  Stall  of 
Bedford  Major  in  Lincoln  Cathedral  in  1881,  and  this 
he  held  till  his  death  rather  more  than  two  years  ago. 
He  had,  through  ill-health,  resigned  the  Vicarage  of 
Sneinton  in  1884,  and  gone  to  end  his  days  at  Lincoln, 
surrounded  by  relations  and  friends  to  whom  his  wise 
and  judicious  counsel  was  infinitely  valuable,  and  in 
whose  care  and  affection  he  found  solace  and  comfort 
during  many  a  weary  hour  of  weakness  and  of  pain. 
He  wrote  several  books  of  Instruction  in  Christian 
Doctrine,  and  of  Meditation;  the  best  known  and 
most  valuable  {Helps  to  Repentance^  and  Aids  to  a  New 
Life)  have  been  sold,  it  may  be  said  without  exaggera- 
tion, by  tens  of  thousands.  His  memory  is  cherished, 
not  only  by  those  who  enjoyed  his  intimate  friendship 
or  looked  to  him  as  their  spiritual  guide,  but  by  his 
brother-clergfy  of  all  views,  by  his  colleagues  on  the 
School-Board,  and  by  hard-headed  business  men  in 
Nottingham,  who  recognised  in  him  a  devoted  priest, 
a  true  and  generous  friend,  and  an  upright,  fearless, 
and  conspicuously  honest  man. 
NottiDgbam. 

Charles  Yeld. 


\_The  following  note  by  the  Rev,  J,  R.  Lunn  is  of  interest  in  this 
connexion,"] 

Professor  Mayor  has  done  well  in  rescuing  from  oblivion 
the  remarkable  Letter  on  this  subject,  and  enshrining  it  in  the 
pages  of  the  Eagle,  It  belongs  to  a  past  age  now,  and  it 
may  be  of  son\e  interest  to  a  great  many  of  your  readers  to  learn 
the  circumstances  which  called  it  forth.  It  appeared  early  in 
the-  Lent  Term  of  1864;  I  should  much  doubt  whether  any 
communication  sent  to  an  ordinary  provincial  paper  ever  went 


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'*  Lenten  InduUs."  2  63 

the  round  of  the  papers  so  much  as  this  did.  It  was  in  my  last 
term  of  residence,  and  on  coming  down  to  my  parish  I  was 
assailed  on  all  sides  with  questions  as  to  whether  I  could 
give  information  about  Lenten  Indults:  and  I  heard  of  the 
letter  being  copied  in  papers  all  over  the  country.  The 
Saturday  Review  had  an  article  on  it,  headed  "Hoaxing  a 
Country  Editor,"  if  I  remember  rightly. 

In  1863  a  local  branch  of  the  English  Church  Union  was 
got  up  at  Cambridge;  it  held  inaugural  services  in  February 
at  St  Michael's  Church,  and  Anniversary  services  on  St  Andrew's 
day  in  St  Clement's  Church.  These,  especially  the  last,  caused 
some  very  virulent  correspondence,  in  which  an  absolutely  false 
charge  was  brought  against  one  of  the  parishes,  being  indeed 
an  admirable  example  of  the  statement  that  a  partial  truth 
is  often  one  of  the  worst  forms  of  lying.  When*  this  had 
cooled  down  a  little,  an  announcement  was  put  forth  of  a 
series  of  sermons  on  week  days  in  Lent,  at  St  Mary's,  for 
the  first  of  which  Dr  Pusey  was  secured. 

Of  course  the  attack  was  renewed,  and  the  scheme  was 
denominated  "  The  Lenten  Indult^*  and  held  up  to  opprobrium 
as  something  very  dreadful.  Everybody  asked  "  What  was  an 
Indult?"  and  no  answer  was  forthcoming:  at  last  some  one 
ascertained  that  at  some  period  in  the  middle  ages  an  **Indult" 
had  been  granted  to  some  priest  to  hold  two  livings  at  the 
same  time;  but  what  that  had -to  do  with  a  bunch  of  sermons 
did  not  at  all  appear.  At  last  the  Letter  was  sent;  but  it  did 
not  appear  till  February  13,  1864.  It  was  written  by  V.  W. 
Hutton  of  Trinity  College,  Secretary  of  the  local  branch  of 
E.  C.  U.,  a  man  no  one  would  have  for  a  moment  thought 
likely  to  dash  off  such  a  clever  and  witty  production,  as  he 
was  so  quiet  and  even  stolid  in  manner.  He  subsequently 
became  Vicar  of  Sneinton  near  Nottingham,  and  Prebendary 
of  Lincoln,  and  I  believe  is  now  dead. 

How  any  one  could  have  been  taken  in  by  such  a  transparent 
hoax  as  a  '  Lateran  Council  of  Pompeii,'  and,  moreover,  one 
held  at  Pompeii  in  a.d.  246,  is  a  marvel ;  or  that  a  thing  could 
be  condemned,  and  yet  be  unknown.  The  word  sinbrint,  I 
suspect,  was  a  lucky  misprint,  the  author  probably  having  written 
scribunt :  it  was  lucky,  because  there  was  a  foot-note  to  it. 

I  remember  Professor  Mayor  had  a  German  friend  with 
him,  and  met  me  in  the  Third  Court;   and  we  had  a  great 


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deal  of  trouble  to  make  this  gentleman  appreciate  the  joke 
of  the  critics  Buckle,  Schlegel,  Tupper,  and  Jones!  I  am 
not  at  all  sure  that  he  ever  did  take  it  in. 


[Note  by  Edd.  Eagle, — The  following  appears  in  the  Cam- 
bridge  Independent  Press  of  January  23,  1864:  "We  have  been 
requested  by  persons  who  have  become  alarmed  at  recent 
proceedings  to  state  that  arrangements  have  been  made  for 
a  special  series  of  Lent  Services,  called  by  Cardinal  Wiseman 
and  the  English  Church  Union  "The  Lenten  Indult."  The 
members  of  the  Cambridge  Branch  have  tried  to  borrow  sundry 
of  our  town  churches  for  this  purpose,  but  the  parochial  clergy, 
to  their  credit  be  it  said,  have  firmly  refused  to  place  their 
churches  at  the  disposal  of  the  English  Church  Union,  who 
are  limited  to  the  use  of  St  Clement's  and  Great  St  Mary's." 
On  January  30,  1864,  the  following  letter  is  given:  "Sir,  In 
common  with  I  doubt  not  many  of  your  readers,  I  have 
been  puzzled  by  the  use  of  the  phrase  ['The  Lenten  Indult'] 
by  a  correspondent  in  your  last  week's  paper,  and  have  been 
wondering  what  new  form  of  torture  this  obtrusive  'Church 
Union'  was  preparing  for  the  poor  persecuted  Protestants. 
Perhaps  the  following  extract  from  HooHs  Church  Dictionary 
may  throw  some  light  upon  the  subject,  and  may  show  the 
good  people  of  Cambridge  what  they  are  to  expect.  'Indult,  in 
the  Church  of  Rome,  is  a  power  of  presenting  to  two  benefices, 
granted  to  certain  persons  by  the  Pope.'  The  meaning  of 
the  term  when  applied  to  a  course  of  Lenten  Sermons  is 
of  course  very  clear. 

Yours,  No  Popery."] 


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'^  SOAPSUDS: 
Or   Washings  from  the  Woll^rer** 


I^^OR  the  past  year  it  has  been  whispered  that 
St  John's,  like  England  in  the  time  of 
|jr^"  Elizabeth,  had  become  a  nest  of  Singing 
Birds.  At  semi-irregular  intervals  men  were  seen 
hurrying  to  the  Reading  Room,  known  to  those  who 
knew  no  better  as  the  H — rkeries  or  the  W — Ueraeum. 
The  anxious  features  of  those  who  entered,  the  flushed 
faces  and  clenched  fists  of  those  who  came  out, 
shewed  that  they  had  passed  through  no  common 
experience.  The  Cambridge  guides  brought  visitors 
from  distant  lands  to  see  the  sight,  and  when  these 
in  hushed  and  nasal  tones  asked  what  this  might 
mean,  they  were  told  that  a  new  number  of  The 
Wollerer  had  appeared. 

Beneath  the  shadows  of  the  Fathers  and  the 
Classics  in  the  Library  above,  inspired  by  the  gaieties 
and  illumined  by  the  bonfires  of  the  May  Term  of  1889, 
The  Licensed  Wollerer s'  Gazette  or  Reading  Room 
Chronicle  sprang  into  existence.  No  Editor  remarked 
that  he  came  forward  to  supply*  an  acknowledged 
want,  but,  as  it  were  between  one  visit  to  the  Dean 
and  the  next,  The  Wollerer  was  there. 

The  idea  was  immense,  and  like  all  great  ideas 
simple.'  But  in  the  beginning  there  was  no  Wollerer j 
only  a  *  Suggestion  Book.'  As  to  what  became  of 
this,  Hark  you!  we  could,  and  may  at  the  proper 
time,  say  something.  But  for  the  present  let  us 
rather  imitate  the  decorous  reticence  of  Soapsuds^  and 
describe  its  fate  as  "its  removal." 

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266  ''Soapsuds," 

information  and  some  for  inspiration.  The  Wolkrer 
was  written  and  read  for  defamation  alone.  It  took 
the  world  by  storm  and  the  world  stormed  at  it 

Fletcher  of  Saltoun  at  once  wrote  to  the  D,  T.  to 
say  that  he  wished  to  withdraw  his  hackneyed  dictum 
about  laws  and  ballads,  and  under  the  Universities 
of  Oxford  and  Cambridge  Acts,  and  the  several 
amending  Acts,  or  some  or  one  of  them,  to  amend 
his  Statutes  by  substituting  for  it  the  following: 
**Let  those  write  for  the  Eagle  who  can  get  their 
articles  accepted,  I  will  write  for  the  Wolkrer^ 

Throughout  the  past  year,  therefore,  the  Wolkrer 
has  from  time  to  time  gladdened  the  hearts  of  those 
members  of  the  College  whose  names  did  not  appear 
in  the  current  number.  It  became  evident  that  such 
valuable  additions  to  English  Literature  could  not 
be  allowed  to  remain  in  the  dignified  seclusion 
of  manuscript,  and  the  Editors  wisely  determined 
to  provide  a  place  of  honourable  sepulture  for  some 
of  the  contributions  in  a  privately  printed  volume. 
This  is  now  before  us,  and  it  behoves  us  to  give 
our  opinion  on  its  merits.  We,  speaking  in  our 
critical  capacity,  should  have  expected  a  volume  of 
verses  written  by  young  men  and  appearing  in  the 
May  Term  to  have  contained  more  frequent  reference 
to  the  fair  sex.  This  is  not  the  tone  of  Soapsuds. 
Here  are  no  lines  to  Phyllis  or  Chloe,  no  verses  to 
'Mary  in  Girton.'  It  is  true  that  in  a  *  Boating  Idyll' 
we  find  mention  tnade  of  a  Matilda  Jane,  but  this 
only  serves  to  make  the  rest  of  the  contributions 
stand  out  in  stronger  relief.  No !  Soapsuds  is  not 
Swinburnian.  Yet  we  could  hardly  recommend  it 
to  the  blameless  Hyperboreans  who  dwell  in  the 
North  Hall  of  Newnham.    They  have  never 

"Called  on  Steve  to  put  some  grease  on, 
"Called  on  Bill  to  shove  the  boat  out; 
"Bill  whose  words  like  rippling  wavelets, 
"Dancing  down  the  winding  river, 
"  Chased  each  other  down  *his  red  beard.'* 


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^^  Soapsuds'^  267 

Tlie  Wolhrer  was  written  by  WoUerers  for  WoUerers, 
by  Johnians  for  Johnians,  by  Boating  Men  for  Boating 
Men.  For  this  reason  we  shall  not  sample  our 
wares  in  detail,  but  confine  ourselves  to  generalities. 
Moreover  the  critic  must  be  cautious,  for  it  has 
been  rumoured  that  the  rustle  of  the  writ  has  been 
heard  in  the  land. 

We  observe  that  a  number  of  the  poems  have 
been  inspired  by  dreams,  some  of  rather  a  painful 
character.  Are  the  training  suppers  heavy  ?  On 
referring  to  Mother  Shipton  we  find  that  "he  that 
dreameth  of  a  Dean  shall  dree  his  weird,"  and  Nostra- 
damus also  hath  a  hard  saying  of  those  who  dream 
of  College  Servants. 

We  were  much  struck  with  the  verses  signed 
G.  0.  M.  May  we  identify  the  writer  with  the 
versatile  author  of  "  The  Bimetallic  Standard  or  the 
Brays  of  M — rr  ?  But  what  saith  Montaigne  ?  "  As 
it  pertaineth  but  to  great  Poets  to  use  the  libertie  of 
arts;  so  it  is  tolerable  but  in  noble  minds  and  gfreat^ 
spirits  to  have  a  preheminence  above  ordinarie 
fashions.  ♦S'^'  quid  Socrates  et  Aristippus  contra  morem 
et  consuetudineni  fecerunty  idem  sibi  ne  arbitretur  licere; 
Magnis  enim  illi  et  divinis  bonis  hanc  licentiam  ctsseqtie- 
bantur:  If  Socrates  and  Aristippus  have  done  ought 
against  custome  or  good  manner,  let  not  a  man 
thinke  he  may  doe  the  same:  for  they  obtained  this 
licence  by  their  gfreat  and  excellent  good  parts."  A 
sentiment  we  commend  to  the  notice  of  all  WoUerers 
past  and  present. 

A  JAYE  PENN. 


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PORTRAIT  OF  PROFESSOR  MAYOR. 


A  MEETING  of  Subscribers  to  the  fund  for  obtaining  a 
portrait  of  the  Professor  of  Latin  was  held  in  the  Combination 
room,  on  Tuesday,  May  20,  1890.  Present:  The  Master  of  Clare, 
the  Master  of  Peterhouse,  Dr  Reid  (Fellow  and  Tutor  of 
Gonville  and  Caius  College),  Mr  Wright  (late  Fellow  of  Christ's 
College),  Mr  Lewis  (Librarian  of  Corpus  Christi  College), 
Mr  MuUinger  (Librarian  of  St  John's),  and  the  following 
Fellows  of  the  College :  Professor  Liveing,  Mr  W.  F.  Smith, 
Dr  Sandys,  Mr  Stevens,  Mr  Cox,  Canon  Whitaker,  Mr  Webb, 
Mr  Ward,  Mr  Scott,  Dr  MacAlister,  Mr  Tottenham,  Mr 
Caldecott,  and  Mr  Marr. 

It  was  moved  by  Dr  Sandys  and  seconded  by  Professor 
Liveing,  that  the  Master  of  Peterhouse  be  requested  to  take 
the  Chair. 

The  Master  of  Peterhouse  spoke  as  follows :  Gentlemen, 
I  am  very  sorry  that  the  Master  and  President  are  unable  to 
be  present  to-day.  I  can  only  say  that  it  gives  me  very 
special  pleasure  to  take  any  part  in  doing  honour  to  one 
who  deserves  it  so  well  as  Prof.  Mayor.  I  may  perhaps 
mention  one  small  incident  which  occurred  a  short  time  before 
the  death  of  Prof.  Kennedy.  I  received  a  note  from  him 
asking  me  to  call  upon  him,  as  he  had  something  to  say  to 
me.  It  had  long  been  on  his  mind,  he  said,  that  there  was 
no  portrait  of  such  a  distinguished  scholar  as  Prof.  Mayor, 
and  he  asked  whether  I  would  make  an  effort  in  getting 
some  one  to  move  in  the  matter.  I  told  him  I  thought  I 
was  not  the  proper  person  to  originate  such  a  proposal,  but 
I  would  think  it  over  and  see  whether  it  was  in  my  power 
to  promote  such  an  effort.  I  am  glad  that  the  movement 
has  been  independently  started  in  this  College,  and  that, 
thanks  to  the  energy  of  the  Public  Orator,  it  promises  to  be 
a  complete  success.     I  will  now  call  upon  Dr  Sandys. 


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Dr  Sandys:  As  Treasurer  I  have  to  report  the  result  of 
the  appeal  drawn  up  in  March  and  sent  to  a  limited  number 
of  members  of  the  University  and  others,  about  the  end  of 
last  Term,  and  also  since  the  beginning  of  the  present.  Up 
to  the  present  date  the  total  amount  of  subscriptions  promised^ 
by  165  subscribers,  is  ^^425  14^  6d,  about  half  of  which  has 
been  actually  paid.  I  have  no  doubt  that,  when  the  appeal  is 
more  widely  circulated,  additional  support  will  be  obtained, 
and  that  we  may  without  much  difficulty  reach  a  total  of  some 
500  guineas.  Some  of  the  subscribers  are  happily  present; 
many  are  kept  away  by  the  engagements  of  a  busy  Term, 
and  by  the  distance  of  their  homes  from  Cambridge.  But 
the  letters  which  they  have  written  testify  to  the  interest 
they  feel  in  the  cause  that  unites  us  all  to-day.  I  may  be 
allowed  to  read  extracts  from  some  of  them.  His  Grace  the 
•Chancellor  of  the  University,  has,,  in  a  letter  addressed  to 
Prof.  liveing,  expressed  his  pleasure  at  hearing  of  the  proposal, 
and  has  headed  our  subscription  list  with  a  generous  donation. 
The  Vice-Chancellor  (Dr  Butler,  Master  of  Trinity  College) 
writes :— "  If  I  am  absent,  you  will,  I  know,  not  attribute  it  to 
any  lack  of  sympathy  or  of  respect  for  our  great  scholar. ... 
My  very  warm  sympathy  will  be  with  you  at  your  meeting.'' 
Dr  Westcott,  now  Lord  Bishop  of  Durham,  writes  :^**I  rejoice 
that  Cambridge  has  at  last  recognised  the  duty  and  the  privilege 
of  preserving  memorials  of  sons  who  have  left  examples  which 
will  help  those  who  come  after."  Dr  Atlay,  Lord  Bishop  of 
Hereford,  sends,  with  his  subscription,  the  following  Latin 
couplet — 

Quae  qvanquam  raisisse  padet  quia  patva  videntca: 
Tu  tamen  haec  qnaeso  consule  missa  bom. 

The  Master  of  Jesus  gives  some  interesting  reminiscences 
of  Prof.  Mayor  when  he  was  a  boy  at  school.  "  I  saw  him 
first  as  head-boy  of  Shrewsbury  nearly  forty-seven  years  ago, 
and  really  his  portrait,  if  taken  then,  touched  up  with  a  little 
gray  and  a  few  furrows,  would  have  done  well  for  your  present 
requirements.  He  was  then  the  most  perfect  student  youth, 
an  exact  young  likeness  of  the  reigning  Professor  of  Latin.'* 
The  Master  of  Pembroke  writes  to  say : — "  I  wish  I  could  mark 
my  sense  of  his  worth  by  a  larger  subscription."  Dr  Hort,  who 
I  once  hoped  would  have  been  here  to-day,,  says — "There 
can,  I  imagine,  be  no  one  in  Cambridge  to  whom  it  would 
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have  been  a  greater  satisfaction  to  try  to  express  the  love 
and  admiration  which  we  all  feel  for  Prof.  Mayor." 
Dr  Jebb,  the  Professor  of  Greek,  who  was  also  to  have  taken 
part  in  this  meeting,  says : — "  I  am  particularly  sorry  to  miss 
the  meeting.. ..Could  I  have  been  present,  nothing  could 
have  given  me  more  cordial  pleasure  than  to  have  supported 
the  Resolution  mentioned  in  your  letter."  Prof.  Sylvester 
sends,  through  Dr  MacAlister,  a  cordial  word  of  good  will, 
heartily  rejoicing  that  the  matter  was  being  taken  up* 
Mr  Roby  *' thinks  it  an  excellent  idea."  Mr  Moss,  Head- 
master of  Shrewsbury,  gladly  sends  a  handsome  donation,  and 
adds: — ''you  ought  to  have  no  difficulty  in  obtaining  aU  the 
money  that  is  required."  Dr  £.  Calvert,  of  Shrewsbury,  adds 
a  reminiscence  of  the  past: — "Prof.  Mayor  was  my  private 
tutor  in  October  1848.  Even  then  his  store  of  learning 
seemed  to  have  no  limit."  Mr  Hallam,  now  at  Harrow/ 
sa3rs — "Apart  from  the  gratitude  which  all  Johnians  must 
feel  to  him  for  his  long  and  invaluable  services  to  the  College, 
he  has  a  further  claim  on  me  as  an  old  Shrewsbury  boy,  as 
well  as  a  most  kind  friend."  Mr  W.  N.  Roseveare,  also  of 
Harrow: — "I  consider  it  a  great  privilege  to  be  able  to  con- 
tribute to  a  memorial  of  Prof.  Mayor,  our  apostle  of  plain 
living  and  high  thinking."  Mr  Page,  at  Charterhouse: — 
"Nothing  could  be  more  welcome  than  your  circular.  If 
Prof.  Herkomer  does  the  picture,  it  would  be  well  if  he  also 
reproduced  it  as  an  etching  or  engraving;  I  should  be  glad 
to  subscribe  a  further  sum  for  that  object."  Mr  Newbold, 
Head- master  of  St  Bees: — "I  am  sure  you  will  meet  with 
a  very  generous  and  hearty  response  to  the  appeal."  The 
Sur-Master  of  St  Paul's,  Mr  Lupton,  says — "Few  deserve 
such  a  compliment  more  than  Prof.  Mayor."  Dr  Jessopp, 
formerly  Head-master  of  Norwich  School,  describes  Prof. 
Mayor  as  "my  dear  and  valued  friend  for  more  than  forty 
years."  Dr  Moulton,  of  the  Leys  School: — "I  am  deeply 
sensible  of  Prof.  Mayor's  high  claim  on  the  gratitude  of  all 
students.  He  is  deserving  of  all  honour."  Mr  Griffin,  the 
Senior  Wrangler  of  1837: — "I  am  sure  that  John  Mayor  is 
a  man  to  be  had  in  honour."  One  of  Mr  Griffin's  former 
pupils  in  mathematics,  Mr  Hall,  Vicar  of  St  Paul's,  Cambridge, 
writes : — "  I  think  Prof.  Mayor  is  one  of  those  whom  all  men 
should  delight  to  honour."    Perhaps  the  most  touching  tribute. 


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to  l^is  influence  is  that  from  the  Rev.  Alexander  Wood,  late 
Fellow  of  this  College,  and  now  Mathematical  Master  at 
Sherborne: — "All  Johnians  have  the  warmest  affection  for 
John  Mayor.  It  rests  little  upon  his  learning,  or  upon  his 
great  services  to  the  College,  but  upon  the  man  himself  as 
upon  a  greatly  beloved  brother,  for  our  generation  an  elder 
brother;  so  we  add  to  our  love  for  himself  something  of 
the  veneration  due  to  a  most  unselfish  and  beautiful  character." 
I  conclude  with -a  letter  from  a  Fellow  of  Trinity  College, 
the  active  Secretary  of  the  fund  for  obtaining  a  portrait  of 
Dr  Henry  Jackson;  Mr  Duff  writes: — "I  shall  have  the 
greatest  pleasure  in  subscribing  towards  the  portrait  of  Prof. 
Mayor ;  and  I  am  extremely  glad  to  hear  of  the  same." 

The  Master  of  Ciare:  The  portrait  being  practically 
secured,  the  question  now  arises,  where  it  should  be  placed. 
I  suppose  this  ought  not  to  be  considered  as  a  resolution  to 
be  adopted  as  a  matter  of  course ;  but,  if  anyone  thinks 
differently,  he  may  propose  an  amendment.  I  have  myself 
cordially  agreed  to  the  resolution,  which  is  this  :— 

<'That  the  proposed  portrait  of  Ptof.  Mayor  be  offered  to  the  Master 
and  Fellows  of  St  John's  College,  to  be  placed  either  in  the  Hall,  in 
the  Combination  Room,  or  in  the  Library  of  the  College." 

Prof.  Mayor  is  a  Professor  of  the  University,  and,  if  there 
had  been  any  gallery  of  portraits  of  Professors,  it  would  have 
been  the  proper  place  for  his  portrait.  Perhaps  it  would  be 
worth  while  considering  the  question  whether  some  Uiiiversity 
Lecture  Room  should  not  be  adorned  with  the  portraits  of 
Professors.  We  have  nothing  of  the  sort  at  present,  and  I 
am  quite  sure  there  is  no  place  where  the  portrait  of  Prof. 
Mayor  would  be  so  highly  appreciated,  and  (I  may  add)  so 
accessible  to  old  friends  of  Prof.  Mayor,  or  where  it  would 
so  surely  reach  the  knowledge  of  future  ages,  or  where 
the  memory  of  Prof.  Mayor  would  be  more  treasured,  than 
in  his  own  College,  in  the  midst  of  so  many  former  friends 
and  associates,  and  by  the  side  of  the  portrait  of  Dr  Kennedy. 
Dr  Reid  :  I  deem  it  a  great  privilege  to  have  been  permitted 
to  second  the  Resolution.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  destination 
which  has  been  pointed  out  for  the  portrait  of  Prof.  Mayor 
is  most  appropriate.  One  distinguishing  feature  of  his  work 
has  always  been  his  heartfelt  sympathy  with  all  those  who  have 
loved  learning  in  the  past,  in  the  days  of  the  ancients,  as 


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well  as  in  times  more  recent.  But  especially  has  he  shown 
in  his  writings  his  feeling  of  fellowship  with  his  predecessors 
in  his  own  College ;  and  the  Foundation  which  he  has  loved 
so  well,  and  for  whose  history  he  has  done  so  much,  should 
naturally  own  his  portrait.  It  will  for  all  time  be  accessible 
to  those  who  admire  Prof.  Mayor ;  it  will  not  be  out  of  the 
way  or  out  of  the  knowledge  of  scholars,  whether  living  here 
or  elsewhere.  About  Prof.  Mayor's  pursuit  of  scholarship  I 
should  like  to  be  allowed  to  say  a  word  or  two,  particularly 
because  my  studies  have  led  me  to  make  close  acquaintance 
with  much  that  he  has  written.  The  more  I  read  his  writings, 
the  more  do  I  admire  his  splendid  singleness  of  purpose,  his 
absolute  thoroughness  and  conscientiousness,  the  entire  absence 
of  any  trace  of  shallowness,  in  everything  that  he  does.  Once 
I  talked  about  Prof.  Mayor  to  a  scholar  of  distinction  who 
told  me  that  sometimes  after  ransacking  learned  works  in  vain 
for  some  special  information  which  he  needed,  it  would  occur 
to  him  that  the  matter  might  have  come  under  the  notice  of 
Prof.  Mayor  in  his  edition  of  fwoenal  or  some  other  work ; 
if  that  were  so,  just  the  information  needed  was  always  to  be 
found.  I  would  express  an  earnest  hope  that  Prof.  Mayor 
may  have  before  him  many  years  for  the  publication  of  his 
researches.  No  one  knows  how  great  are  the  stores  of  learning 
he  has  not  yet  given  to  the  world.  In  many  departments  of 
scholarship  about  which  he  has  published  little,  be  possesses 
as  great  a  mastery  as  in  those  departments  in  connexion  with 
which  he  has  chiefly  attained  his  fame.  I  have  much  pleasure 
in  seconding  the  resolution  moved  by  the  Master  of  Clare. 

The  resolution  was  carried  unanimously. 

Dr  Mac  Alistbr  :  It  is  with  very  great  pleasure  that  I  rise 
to  move  the  next  proposition :  but  I  should  like  to  say  before 
speaking  to  it  that  I  have  just  parted  with  the  Vice-Chancellor, 
who  with  myself  and  other  Members  of  the  Council  have 
been  engaged  in  an  important  duty,  that  of  arranging  for 
the  election  of  Dr  Westcott's  successor.  He  desired  me  most 
cordially  to  express  his  sympathy  with  the  proposal  which  has 
been  put  before  you  by  the  Master  of  Clare  and  seconded  by 
Dr  Reid,  and  also  requested  me  to  say  that,  by  the  doctor's 
orders,  he  has  been  forbidden  to  speak  again  this  afternoon. 
He  had  hoped  up  to  the  last  moment  to  make  his  appearance 
here,      I    should    like    next    to    express   on    behalf   of  the 


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members  of  this  College  our  thanks  for  the  proposal  which 
has  beqp  made,  and  which  has  now  been  carried,  that  this 
picture,  the  picture  of  one  of  our  most  distinguished 
Johnians,  should  be  placed  in  his  own  College.  The 
generous  proposal  gives  a  university  character  to  the 
tribute  which  it  is  proposed  to  pay  to  Prof.  Mayor.  His 
distinction  among  scholars  is  world-wide,  and  that  distinction 
reflects  glory  not  only  on  St  John's  but  on  the  University. 
To  have  his  picture  thus  bestowed,  not  only  by  members  of 
his  own  College  but  also  by  other  members  of  the  University, 
is  an  eminently  fitting  and  an  eminently  graceful  thing.  The 
Master  of  Clare  has  said  that  there  is  as  yet  no  gallery  of 
portraits  of  Professors  in  the  University,  and  that  it  would 
be  well  if  such  a  thing  were  some  day  started.  I  am  glad 
that  day  is  not  in  the  immediate  future,  because  we  are  thus 
enabled  to  add  to  the  gallery  of  portraits  of  Professors  already 
being  formed  in  this  College,  a  portrait  of  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  of  them.  It  will  be  felt  that,  in  placing  Prof. 
Mayor  with  Prof.  Kennedy,  Prof.  Adams,  Prof.  Sylvester,  Prof, 
Palmer,  and  others,  we  are  putting  him  in  his  right  place  in  our 
Hall.  Dr  Reid  has  spoken  well  of  his  merits  as  a  scholar,  and 
of  his  singleness  of  purpose.  I  should  speak  without  authority 
if  I  alluded  to  his  learning,  but  I  would  add  my  own  witness 
to  this  special  characteristic.  Anyone  who  knows  Prof.  Mayor 
must  have  felt  that  his  single-hearted  devotion  to  the  subject 
in  band,  whatever  it  may  be,  is  indeed  a  moral  stimulus  of  the 
highest  kind.  His  marvellous  passion  for  accuracy  is  one 
which  must  commend  itself  to  mathematicians,  and  as  a  physi- 
cian I  may  say  that  the  attention  he  has  devoted  to  the  history 
of  medicine  and  of  physiology  has  always  commanded  my 
admiration.  We  have  not  always  agreed  on  all  points  in  these 
subjects,  but  I  will  say  that,  when  Prof.  Mayor  has  mastered  a 
physiological  point,  it  is  a  very  difficult  thing  to  argue  with  him 
triumphantly  upon  it.  His  affection  to  the  College,  and  his 
services  to  it,  I  need  hardly  enlarge  upon.  He  has  raised  a 
monument  to  the  College  in  his  edition  of  Baker^  and  placed 
it  on  an  almost  unique  pedestal.  His  eminence  as  a  Professor 
in  the  University,  his  influence,  his  moral  weight,  his  breadth 
of  learning,  have  made  him  known  over  the  whole  Continent 
of  Europe:  there  he  has  secured  for  himself  enduring 
remembrance,  but  we  shall  be  proud  and  grateful  to  enshrine 


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this  purely  personal  memorial  of  him  in  his  chosen  home* 
I  have  great  pleasure  in  moving  in  the  name  of  the^CoUege 
the  following  resolution — 

"That  the  hest  thanks  of  St  John's  College  are  due  to  the  sabsciibers 
who  are  not  members  thereof,  for  their  very  generous  co-operation  in  pro- 
senting  Frof.  Mayor's  portrait  to  the  College." 

Canon  Whitaker  seconded  the  resolution;  which  was 
carried  by  acclamation. 

Thb  Master  op  Peterhouse  then  said: — ^I  think  I  may 
say  the  words  of  the  resolution  are  too  flattering.  I  am  sure 
we  appreciate  the  kindness  with  which  Dr  MacAlister  has 
spoken  of  the  interest  which  subscribers  outside  St  John's 
have  taken  in  this  movement,  and  we  feel  grateful  for  the 
privilege  of  taking  part  in  it. 

Mr  Scott:  I  rise  to  suggest  that  Prof.  Herkomer  should 
be  entrusted  with  the  execution  of  the  proposed  portrait. 
Prof.  Herkomer  is  so  eminent  an  artist  that  it  seems  unnecessary, 
if  not  presumptuous,  to  say  anything  in  his  favour.  I  would 
merely  remind  those  present  that  he  has  within  the  last  few 
days  been  made  a  Royal  Academician  at  the  early  age  of  41. 
His  fame  as  an  artist  is  moreover  not  confined  to  England ; 
he  is  equally  well  known  on  the  Continent.  He  was  one 
of  the  two  English  artists  who  were  awarded  Gold  Medals 
at  the  Berlin  Exhibition  of  1886;  and  his  pictures  bad 
prominent  places  assigned  to  them  at  the  Paris  Exhibition 
last  year.  We  have  three  remarkable  portraits  by  him  in 
Cambridge,  I  mean  those  of  the  late  Master  of  Trinity, 
Dr  Thompson,  of  Prof.  Adams,  and  of  Dr  Routh.  In  these 
pictures  he  has  not  only  recorded  the  features  of  his  sitter 
upon  his  canvas,  but,  if  I  may  say  so,  has  also  shewn  us 
something  of  the  mind  of  the  man.  If  he  can  only  succeed 
in  doing  this  for  Professor  Mayor,  we  shall  have  a  very 
remarkable  portrait;  indeed. 

Mr  Webb  :  I  have  great  pleasure  in  seconding  the  proposal 
of  Mr  Scott.  I  think  all  will  agree  with  me  that  Prof.  Herkomer 
is  an  artist  of  remarkable  power,  particularly  in  portraiture. 
I  remember  most  of  the  portraits  which  he  has  exhibited, 
and  I  would  instance  those  of  Tennyson  and  Ruskin  as 
possessing  characteristics  one  seldom  sees  in  portraits  by 
other  artists.  This  power  is  very  noticeable  in  the  picture 
by  which  Herkomer  first  became  famous — that  of  the  Chelsea 


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Pensioners  in  The  Last  Muster.  If  that  picture  be  ex- 
amined»  it  will  be  found  that,  notwithstanding  the  number 
of  faces,  they  are  not  repetitions  of  the  same  type,  but  that  each 
has  its  distinctive  character.  It  strikes  me  therefore  that  we 
may  expect  from  Prof.  Herkomer  not  only  a  satisfactory 
portrait  of  Prof.  Mayor,  but  an  extraordinaiy  and  uncommon 
picture. 

Mr  Caldecott  supported  the  motion  on  the  ground 
that  Prof.  Herkomer  had  gained  his  highest  distinction  by 
work  of  the  very  kind  now  required,  the  portraiture  of  men, 
or  types  of  men,  of  marked  and  interesting  character. 

The  Master  of  Peterhguse  observed  that,  in  addition 
to  the  portraits  by  Mr  Herkomer  mentioned  by  Mr  Scott, 
there  were  in  the  University  those  of  the  late  Provost  of 
King's,  the  President  of  Queens'^  and  Prof.  Fawcett. 

The  resolution  was  carried  unanimously. 

Dr  Sandys  moved  '  that  the  portrait  be  of  the  same  dimen- 
sions as  that  of  Dr  Kennedy,'  it  being  understood  that  the 
cost  of  a  portrait  of  those  dimensions  would  be  500  guineas. 

Mr  S.  S.  Lewis  seconded  the  proposition,  and  as  a  past 
pnpil  spoke  of  Prof.  Mayor's  extreme  kindness  to  himself  and 
others,  when  freshmen  at  St  John's. 

The  proposal  was  carried  unanimously. 

Dr  Sandys  having  pointed  out  that  it  might  now  be 
convenient  to  settle  what  should  be  done  with  any  surplus 
of  the  fund,  after  some  discussion,  it  was  moved  by  Dr 
MacAlister,  seconded  by  Mr  W.  F.  Smith,  and  carried 
nnanimously,  ''  That  the  surplus  (if  any)  should  be  devoted  to 
the  procuring  of  reproductions  of  the  portrait,  which  might 
be  obtained  by  subscribers,  and  might  also  be  presented  to 
institutions  wiUi  which  Prof.  Mayor  is  connected." 

Mr  Cox  proposed  a  hearty  vote  of  thanks  to  the  Master  of 
Feterhouse  for  taking  the  Chair,  and  for  giving  the  meeting 
the  benefit  of  his  experience  on  similar  occasions. 

The  Master  of  Peterhouse  :  I  need  not  say  that  it  has 
been  an  extreme  pleasure  for  me  to  take  part  in  this  meeting. 
I  am  delighted  to  find  it  characterised  by  such  complete 
unanimity. 

Dr  Sandys  :  The  Master  of  Peterhouse,  in  taking  the  Chair, 
referred  in  very  kind  terms  to  the  part  I  have  taken  in  the 
present  movement,  but  be  was  perhaps  not  aware  of  its  earlier 


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histoiy.  For  some  years  past,  I  had  looked  forward  to  doing 
something  towards  obtaining  a  portrait  of  Prof.  Major  for 
the  University  and  the  College.  But  the  first  practical  step 
was  taken,  in  my  absence,  by  a  small  meeting  of  the  subscribers 
to  the  Sylvester  Portrait  Fund,  when  it  was  determined  that 
the  surplus  of  that  fund  should  form  the  nucleus  of  a  fresh 
fund  for  obtaining  a  portrait  of  the  Professor  of  Latin.  At  a 
later  stage  I  was  deputed  to  ask  the  Professor  for  his 
preliminary  consent  to  the  proposed  portrait.  His  reply, 
which  was  given  me  in  conversation,  was  brief  and  (I  think 
I  may  add)  characteristic  of  the  man.  It  was  to  this  effect  :— 
'I  had  hoped  to  be  allowed  to  go  down  to  a  green  grave 
without  any  memorial;  but  if  my  friends  wish  it  to  be 
otherwise,  I  must  do  as  I  am  bid/ 
The  meeting  then  broke  up. 


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The  Rev  F.  E.  Gretton. 
The  Rev  F.  E.  Gretton  B.D.,  formerly  Fellow,  who  has 
recently  died,  was  fourth  in  seniority  of  the  B.D.'s  of  the 
College.  Mr  Gretton  was  a  Senior  Optime.  in  Dr  Hymers' 
year,  1826,  but  he  obtained  his  Fellowship  from  his  place  as 
seventh  Classic  in  1826  (the  third  Classical  Tripos  held). 
Mr  Gretton  was  Head-master  of  Stamford  Grammar  School 
for  nearly  forty  years,  and  Rector  of  St  Mary's,  Stamford, 
daring  seventeen  years  of  that  time.  He  was  appointed  Rector 
of  Oddington  near  Stow  on  the  Wold  in  1871,  and  was  nearly 
ninety  years  of  age  at  his  death.  He  was  Select  Preacher 
in  1 86 1 -2,  and  vrroie  Flmslei'ana  Cn/tca,  some  Parochial  Sennons^ 
and  Memory s  Hark-back, 

Reuben  Buttress. 
Early  on  Sunday  March  23,  1890,  there  passed  peacefully 
away  one  who,  for  many  generations  of  Johnians,  was  familiarly, 
pleasantly,  and  affectionately  associated  with  the  College. 
Reuben  Buttress,  for  41  years  Marker  in  Hall  and  Chapel, 
was  widely  known  and  esteemed.  Bom  on  January  25,  1803, 
at  Fulham,  where  his  father  was  for  a  time  in  employment 
as  a  gardener,  his  early  life  was  spent  in  Herts,  whither  his 
father  had  returned  soon  after  his  birth.  His  ancestors  had 
long  been  settled  in  that  county.  When  about  12  years  old, 
he  was  taken  from  School  to  join  the  household  of  Dr  Bland, 
a  Fellow  of  St  John's,  then  Rector  of  Lilley ;  of  his  kindness 
he  always  spoke  warmly — the  good  Doctor  insisting  on  his 
continuing  to  improve  his  mind  by  evening  studies,  helping 
him  in  them,  lending  him  books,  and  hearing  him  say  the 
Church  Catechism,  which  he  "never  forgot."  Dr  Bland 
returning  soon  to  reside  in  College,  brought  him  with  him 
to  Cambridge,  where  he  continued  in  his  service  till  the 
Doctor  left  College  again.  Passing  the  next  few  years  in 
similar  positions  at  St  John's,  he  married  early  in  1823, 
and  took  a  lodging  house  in  Jesus  Lane.  But  in  1830,  on  being 
appointed  Marker,  he  removed  to  St  John's  Street  and 
commenced  the  business  which  he  carried  on  personally  for 
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more  than  50  years.  He  lost  his  wife  in  1856,  and,  when 
he  had  been  Marker  for  more  than  40  years,  he  became 
afflicted  with  a  stiffening  of  the  joints  of  both  hands  and 
knees,  so  that  it  was  with  great  difficulty  he  could  mount  the 
many  staircases  in  College,  which  his  enlarging  duty  to  give 
notices  of  Lectures  required  of  him.  Feeling  that  he  had 
better  resign,  he  announced  his  wish  to  do  so.  It  was 
received  by  the  Master  and  Fellows  with  great  regret,  and 
they  tried  to  persuade  him  to  stay  on,  with  the  offer  of 
assistance  to  lighten  his  work.  But  as  he  still  declined,  they 
invited  him  to  say  how  they  could  best,  in  his  opinion,  mark 
their  sense  of  his  faithful  service,  since  he  would  not  become 
a  pensioner  of  theirs.  At  last  his  diffidence  at  receiving 
anything  "  for  doing  his  duty"  was  overcome  by  the  presentation 
of  a  handsome  and  massive  Silver  Service,  consisting  of  Tea 
and  Coffee  Pots,  Sugar  Basin  and  Cream  Jug,  together  with 
a  Silver  Beer  Mug,  engraved  with  the  words — Presented  by  the 
Master  and  Fellows  of  St  JohrCs  College^  Cambridge^  to  Reuben 
But  tress y  as  a  mark  of  tegard  and  confidence  on  his  ceasing  to  he 
College  Marker  after  41  years^  service,  a.d.  1871. 

Soon  after  this  he  was  taken  quite  aside  from  active  life, 
becoming  more  and  more  stiffened,  though,  as  long  as  he 
was  able  to  walk,  he  went  daily  more  and  more  slowly  to  his 
much  beloved  garden  at  "  the  backs,"  which  he  had  rented  of 
the  College  for  40  years.  In  1886  he  was  paralysed,  but  though 
his  faculties  were  much  impaired  he  continued  bright  and 
happy.  As  the  end  drew  near  at  hand  he  became  somewhat 
more  himself,  and  he  thankfully  received  the  Holy  Communion 
at  the  hands  of  the  assistant  Curate  of  his  Parish  (St  Sepulchre's) 
a  few  hours  before  he  passed  away,  joining  more  clearly 
in  the  Holy  Service  then  than  he  done  since  his  seizure.  So 
an  honourable,  long,  happy,  and  bright  life  came  at  last  to 
a  peaceful  conclusion. 

The  funeral  took  place  on  March  27.  After  the  first  part 
of  the  service  had  been  touchingly  rendered  by  the  Choir 
of  St  John's  in  the  church  where  he  had  worshipped  for  more 
than  50  years,  the  service  was  concluded  at  the  grave-side  in 
in  the  Mill  Road  Cemetery  by  Professor  J.  E.  B.  Mayor,  Senior 
Fellow;  the  body  being  borne  to  its  last  resting-place  by 
servants  of  the  College  who  had,  one  and  all,  as  indeed  had 
everyone  who  knew  him,  an  affectionate  remembrance  of  him. 


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TO  GLADSTONE  REVISITING  OXFORD.* 

ScefU'^TKR  Union. 
'I  love  Oxford  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart.' 

Time  may  thy  brow's  Hyperion  locks  have  mown,t 
Nor  all  untouched  thy  form  his  darts  withstood, 
Yet  ichor  flows  free  mingling  with  thy  blood, 
And  myriad  hearts  hail  thee  unchanged  their  own. 
*Ripe  scholar,  statesman,  orator,  in  one' 
Swept  by  fierce  gusts  of  Passion's  fiery  mood 
Yet  fresh  as  early  loosened  icy  flood 
Or  Edelweiss  midst  Alps,  thou  shin'st  alone! 
I  see  thee  bowed  approach,  once  thine,  the  chair 
Where  *  Peel's  great  name  hath  not  yet  run  its  course ' 
I  hear  a  deafening  storm-cry  rend  the  air 
Charged  with  rapt  eager  souls'  electric  force 
That  bids  thee  stay,  here  at  the  Muse's  source, 
Isis'  own  spouse,  her  starry  crown  to  wear. 

♦  Reprinted,  with  important  alterations,  from  the  Oxford  Magazine  of 
Feb.  19.  The  event  commemorated  took  place  on  the  5th  of  Febmary 
last  The  passages  in  the  head-line  and  in  line  10  between  inverted 
commas  are  qaoted  from  Mr  Gladstone's  speech  acknowledging  the  vote 
of  thanks  to  him,  moved  by  Archdeacon  Palmer :  the  quotation  in  line  5 
from  the  speech  of  the  Regius  Professor  of  Medicine  in  seconding  the 
vote.  During  his  brief  retreat  at  All  Souls',  party  strife  was  hushed, 
and  a  sort  of  Truce  of  God  prevailed  through  University  and  Town.  A 
son  of  the  Speaker  (Mr  A.  G.  V.  Peel  of  New  College)  then  filled  the 
chair  at  the  Union  of  which  Mr  Gladstone  was  president  during  his 
Christchurch  days. 

t  Mr  Gladstone's  "  hair  was  curly  once  upon  a  time  as  may  be  seen  in 
some  early  pictures.*' 

J.  J.  s. 


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THEOCRITUS. 

Still  looking  forth  o'er  the  Sicilian  main 
Sings  the  rude  Cyclops  on  his  native  hill 
His  lay  bucolic  to  his  love;  but  still 

Coy  Galatea  will  not  heed  his  strain, 

Mindful  forever  of  her  Acis  slain — 
Though  that  fair  youth,  transfigrured  to  a  rill, 
Findeth  at  last  with  pleasurable  thrill 

In  her  soft  arms  oblivion  of  pain. 

Still  gay  cicalas  prattle;  blunt-faced  bees 
Hum  o'er  their  toil;  still  countless  cattle  gpraze 

On  the  hill -side;  still  lives  the  Country  Muse 
For  herdsmen  stretched  'neath  gently  rustling  trees  ; 
Yet  wouldst  thou  mourn,  Theocritus,  to  gaze 

On  the  sad  remnants  of  thy  Syracuse. 

T.  R.  G. 


IT  MIGHT   HAVE  BEEN. 

A  MOTHER  sat  beside  an  empty  bed. 

She  smiled,  for  memory  traced  a  long-past  scene — 
She  kissed  and  blessed  a  pillow-nestled  head. 

And  softly  sighed,  "Ah  God!  it  might  have  been." 

A  maiden  sat  beside  her  idle  wheel. 

Clasped  in  her  hand  a  bunch  of  withered  green- 
Life's  thread  was  spun,  for  grief  had  checked  the  reel. 

She  drooped  and  sighed,  "Ah  Grod!  it  might  have 
been." 

One  had  gone  forth,  a  gallant  joyous  youth. 
One,  upon  whom  a  mother's  hopes  might  lean; 

And  he  had  loved  with  his  young  eager  truth — 
Had  he  returned,  Ah  God !  what  might  have  been ! 

It-^might-'have — been :  thus  tolls  the  long  drawn  bell. 

It— might— have — been:  yet  that  which  is,  is  well. 

O.  M.  W. 


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A  SUMMER  THOUGHT. 

A  SUMMER  wind  went  stealing  through  the  trees, 

A  rippling  brook  flung  music  on  the  air; 
Night's  beaded  mantle  lay  on  flower-strewn  leas, 

And  glistened  as  the  moon-beams  found  it  there. 
I  passed  along,  and  thought — how  soon  the  breeze, 

So  softly  whispering  with  the  leaves  o'erhead, 
Will,  as  a  wintry  tempest,  scourge  the  seas. 

And  wildly  shrieking  its  broad  havoc  spread: 
How  soon  yon  purling  stream  will  hoarsely  roar, 

And,  as  a  torrent,  chafe  along  its  bed; 
How  soon  the  meadow's  glistening  pearl-sown  floor, 

Will,  in  a  snow-drift  shrouded,  lie  as  dead. 
And,  as  I  muse,  my  thoughts  yet  wider  range — 
Let  all  that  will.  Affection  will  not  change. 

O.  M.  W. 


CHANCE. 

A  VOICE  speaks  gently  after  stormy  night, 

'When  is  it  beautiftil  to  die?' 
Like  hum  of  insects  gath'ring  in  their  flight 

Around  the  broken  flowers  that  lie. 

*Vain  question,'  some  reply;  while  others  say, 
*  What  matters  death  in  brute  or  man  ? 

Nature  works  out  the  life,  as  light  the  day; 
Dark  ends  the  day  that  bright  began.' 

Avaunt !  ye  prophets  of  the  heartless  creed : 
As  well  declare  the  tide  beats  back 

The  tide,  and  flowers  blind  produce  of  the  seed ; 
For  then  'twere  ill  indeed  to  lack 

A  Cato's  *  noble  death.'*    Sweet  star  of  eve ! 

Wiser  is  thy  philosophy, 
*  Fear  not  in  faithfulness  of  love  to  leave, 

For  then  'tis  beautiftil  to  die!' 

W.  W. 

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A  LAY  OF  THE  THAMES  AND  CAM. 


THA'^fESINA,  a  daughter  of  old  Father  Thames, 
A  Naiad,  or  Nymph  of  the.  very  first  water. 

Yet  touched  now  and  then  by  terrestrial  flames, 
Though  a  highly  respectable  River-god's  daughter. 

By  the  willows  she  loved,  lost  in  thought,  was  reclining; 

Her  bosom  was  heaving  with  sigh  after  sigh. 
And  the  light  of  the  moon,  on  her  countenance  shining. 

Revealed  a  blue  tear  in  each  pretty  blue  eye. 

"O  why  did  he  come" — ^thus  she  moaned  in  her 
anguish — 

"  In  his  coat  and  his  cap  of  the  sweetest  light-blue  ? 
"  O  why  did  he  come  and  then  leave  me  to  languish  ? 

"  O  my  own  *  Number  Five,'  can  I  live  without  you  ? 

"  He  looked  like  a  River-god  when  he  was  rowing" ; 

"  How  fine  were  his  finish,  his  feather,  and  swing ! 
"But  now  that  the  race  he  has  won  he  is  going, 

"And  won't  be  in  Putney  again  till  next  spring!" 

Then  she  cried,  as  if  moved  by  divine  inspiration, 
"I  will  write  a  short  note  to  my  old  Uncle  Cam" — 

"Dear  uncle,"  she  wrote,  "you,  without  explanation, 
"  Know  well  what  a  changeable  creature  I  am. 

"My  name  I  am  going  to  enter  at  Girton — 

"Or  Newnham  perhaps  would  be  nearer  to  you — 

"And  tell  dear  Miss  C that  I'm  not  very  certain 

"  At  present  what  studies  I  mean  to  pursue. 


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THAMESINA. 


FiLiA  grandaevi  Thamesis  Thamesina,  vel  inter 

Naiadum  pulcros  conspicienda  chores, 
Quae  tamen  humani  fiammas  sensisset  amoris, 

Quamvis  fluminei  filia  clara  dei, 
Multa  movens  animo  nota  ad  saliceta  jacebat; 

Continuo  gemitu  pectora  mota  tument; 
Lunaque  virgineam  faciem  dum  lustrat,  ocello 

Caerula  caeruleo  gutta  in  utroque  tremit. 
**  Heu  quianam,"  sic  maesta  gemit,  "  mihi  venit  lasoii 

"  Caeruleus  vittam  caeruleusque  togam  ? 
"Heu  quianam  venit  me  deserturus  amantem? 

"Cur  sine  te  vitam,  Quinte,  relicta  traho? 
**Vidi  humeros  librantem  et  brachia  justa  moventem 

"Non  sine  Dis  remum  ferre,  referre  suum. 
**  Et  jam  victor  ovans,  mihi  non  rediturus  lason 

Annua  dum  redeant  tempora  veris,  abit." 
Tum,  velut  inspirante  Deo,"  quin  pergimus,"  inquit, 

"Litterulis  Camum  consuluisse  senem?" 
**Scis,  patrue,"  haud  aliis  veniebat  epistola  verbis, 

"Nil  mutabilius  me  leviusque  natat. 
"Fert  animus  jurare  in  Girtonensia  verba, 

"Ni  Nunamae  propior  sit  tibi  docta  domus, 
**Nec  tamen  est  certum,  quod  fac  Cornelia  discat, 

"Quae  studia  ingressas  sint  placitura  mihi. 


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284  A  Lay  0/  the  Thames  and  Cam, 

"But  I  fully  intend  to  read  high  Mathematics, 
"And  Classics,  and  Natural  Science,  and  Law; 

"As  a  Naiad  I  know  all  about  Hydrostatics; 
"  But,  of  course,  my  Geology's  shockingly  raw. 

"  Dear  Granta,  I  hope  no  dead  dogs  now  distress  you, 
"  My  love  to  yourself  and  to  all  the  young  reeds ; 

"Dear  Uncle,  may  Jupiter  Pluvius  bless  you, 

"And  save  you  from  sewage,  and  Babington's  weeds ! " 

O  what  were  the  feelings  of  "Five  "  when  one  morning. 
As  he  walked  in  "the  Backs,"  Thamesina  he  saw! 

While  a  bundle  of  books  her  left  hand  was  adorning 
She  perused  a  huge  tome — "  International  Law." 

At  lecture,  lawn-tennis,  on  land,  and  on  river, 
Wherever  he  went,  Thamesina  was  there; 

Till  an  arrow  from  Love's  irresistible  quiver 
Filled  his  heart  with  alternate  delight  and  despair. 

Aud  now  Thamesina,  no  longer  a  Naiad, 
Has  reaped  the  reward  of  fidelity  true ; 

For,  transformed  to  an  equally-beautiful  Dryad, 
She  is  known  as  "the  sweet  Mrs  Quinque  Light-blue." 

"  Arculus." 


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'*  Sacra  tamen  Musarum  altamque  Mathesin,  et  omnem 

"Rerura  Naturam  discere  Jusque  volo. 
^'Nals  Hydrostaticam  nequeo  nescire,  sed  istam 

<^  Scire  Geologiam  me  mea  fata  vetant. 
'^Granta,  Molossorum  te  nulla  cadavera  vexent; 

**  Vivas  cum  teneris  sospes  arundinibus! 
•*Adsit,  Came,  tibi  Pluvius  Pater,  ut  neque  pestis 

**Juncea,  nee  noceat  fcBda  cloaca  tibi!" 
Mane  petebat  agros  qui  ^^Terga"  vocantur  lason; 

Obstupuit;  veram  te,  Thamesina,  videt? 
Pasciculum  librorum,  en,  laava  tenebat;  at  ipsa 

''Jus  commune  hominum"  g^ande  legebat  opus. 
Jam  tibi  non  campus,  pila,  porticus,  amnis,  lason, 

Dant  latebras;  prsesto  Nais  ubique  tua  est. 
Visque  CupidinesB  non  efiugienda  sagittaa 

Te,  puer,  exanimem  speque  metuque  ferit. 
Ipsaque,  mutata  cum  nomine  Nympha  figura, 

Prasmia  tandem  animi  justa  fidelis  habet. 
Facta  pari  forma  Dryas,  uxor  lasonis  audit, 

Cserula  csBruleo  juncta  puella  viro. 

"Arculus." 


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CORRESPONDENCE. 

To  ihe  Editors  of  the  '  Eagte! 

Gentlemen, 

The  list  of  subscribers  to  the  EagU  includes  the  names 
of  many  loyal  members  of  the  College,  who  have  at  present 
had  no  opportunity  of  showing  their  interest  in  the  proposed 
portrait  of  Professor  Mayor.  Would  you  kindly  enable  me  to 
lighten  the  labour  of  sending  a  separate  circular  to  each,  by 
allowing  the  accompanying  appeal,  originally  addressed  to  a 
limited  number  of  members  of  the  University,  to  be  now 
reprinted  in  the  pages  of  the  College  Magazine,  where  it  will 
meet  the  eyes  of  all  ?  It  has  been  settled  that  the  portrait 
is  to  be  painted  by  Professor  Herkomer,  R.A.  More  than  four 
hundred  guineas  has  already  been  promised :  and  a  further  sum 
of  one  hundred  guineas  is  still  required. 

Yours  very  truly, 

J.  E.  Sandys, 
Stgnifer  olim  Aquilae, 


*'  St  John's  College,  Cambridge, 
March  1890. 

Dear  Sir, 

It  is  proposed  to  raise  a  fund  for  obtaining  a  portrait  of 
the  Reverend  John  Eyton  Bickersteth  Mayor,  University 
Librarian  from  1864  to  1867,  and  Professor  of  Latin  from 
1872  to  the  present  time.  At  the  instance  of  friends,  to 
whose  wishes  I  feel  bound  to  defer,  I  venture  to  appeal  to 
members  of  the  University  and  others  for  Subscriptions 
towards  this  object. 

Professor  Mayor's  services  to  the  cause  of  Classical  learning 
have  long  been  familiar  to  scholars  at  home  and  abroad.  His 
editions  of  Cicero's  Second  Philippic  and  the  Third  Book  of 


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Pliny's  Letters  are  widely  used;  his  commentary  on  Juvenal 
is  universally  recognised  as  a  monumental  work.  The  erudition 
he  has  lavished  on  the  illustration  of  Bede,  and  on  his  preface 
to  Richard  of  Cirencester  (edited  for  the  Master  of  the  Rolls), 
is  well  known  to  students  of  the  authorities  for  the  civil  and 
ecclesiastical  history  of  England.  His  critical  work  entitled 
'The  Latin  Heptateuch'  elucidates  in  various  degrees  the 
history  of  the  Bible  in  the  Church,  the  general  history  of 
literature  and  scholarship,  and  the  principles  and  practice  of 
textual  criticism ;  it  also  includes  many  contributions  to  Latin 
lexicography,  a  field  of  labour  to  which  he  has  devoted  years 
of  unwearied  research. 

The  University  is  indebted  to  him  for  its  Catalogue  of  the 
Baker  manuscripts,  and  for  a  series  of  biographical  works  on 
Cambridge  in  the  seventeenth  century  and  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Anne.  His  own  College,  which  has  been  proud  to 
reckon  him  on  her  roll  of  Fellows  for  more  than  forty  years, 
is  grateful  to  him  for  the  publication  and  completion  of  Baker's 
History,  and  for  the  best  edition  of  the  text  of  its  early 
Statutes.  His  revision  of  Cooper's  Life  of  the  Lady  Margaret 
is  a  service  rendered  to  both  of  her  Colleges.  Lastly,  his 
edition  of  the  English  Works  of  Bishop  Fisher  is  a  fitting 
memorial  of  a  prelate  who  not  only  prompted  the  foundation 
of  two  of  our  Colleges,  but  was  also  President  of  Queens', 
Master  of  Michael-House,  and  Chancellor  of  the  University. 

In  view  of  these  and  many  other  considerations,  it  is  felt 
that  a  large  number  of  those  who  are  connected  with  Professor 
Mayor  by  ties  of  friendship  and  esteem,  or  by  a  common  bond 
of  loyalty  either  to  Shrewsbury  School,  or  to  St  John's  College, 
or  to  the  University  of  Cambridge,  or  to  all  alike,  will  welcome 
an  opportunity  of  contributing  to  an  object  which  will  at  once 
express  their  high  personal  regard  and  serve  to  perpetuate  his 
memory  in  the  future. 

The  nucleus  of  a  fund  fof  this  purpose  has  lately  been 
formed  by  the  liberality  of  the  subscribers  to  a  portrait  of 
Professor  Sylvester,  which  now  hangs  in  the  Hall  of  St  John's, 
on  the  same  wall  as  the  portraits  of  Professor  Palmer  and 
Dr  Kennedy.  Near  to  the  portrait  of  the  late  Professor  of 
Greek,  not  a  few  would  gladly  see  a  portrait  of  one  of  his  most 
distinguished  pupils  and  most  devoted  friends,  the  present 
Professor  of  Latin. 


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288  Correspondence. 

It  is  proposed  to  entrust  the  work  to  an  eminent  artist, 
possibly  to  Professor  Herkomer;  and  it  is  hoped  that  this 
appeal  may  meet  with  a  generous  response  from  all  who  desire 
to  aid  in  its  object. 

I  have  consented  to  act  as  Treasurer  to  the  fund  and  will 
gladly  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  all  subscriptions  that  are 
sent  to  myself.  Subscriptions  may  also  be  paid  to  the  account 
of  the  Mayor  Portrait  Fund,  at  the  London  and  County  Bank, 
Cambridge. 

I  am,  dear  Sir, 

Yours  very  faithfully, 
J.  E.  SANDYS." 


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OUR  CHRONICLE. 
Easter  Term,  1890. 

The  Right  Honourable  Sir  John  Eldon  Gorst  Q.C.,  M.P.  for 
Chatham,  and  Under-Secretary  of  State  for  India,  has  been 
elected  an  Honorary  Fellow  of  the  College.  Sir  John  was 
Third  Wrangler  in  1857,  ^^^  ^^^  elected  a  FellQw  soon 
afterwards.  He  was  sent  to  New  Zealand  in  1861  as  Civil 
Commissioner^  administering  the  territory  of  Waikato  during 
the  Maori  troubles.  In  1865  he  was  called  to  the  Bar,  and  in 
1866  was  elected  M.P.  for  Cambridge.  He  was  returned  to 
Parliament  by  Chatham  in  1875,  and  has  continued  ever  since 
to  represent  that  constituency.  As  Secretary  of  the  Central 
Conservative  Association  he  rendered  great  services  in 
organising  his  party  under  Mr  Disraeli,  and  the  Conservative 
victory  in  1874  was  held  to  be  due  in  large  measure  to  his 
efforts.  With  Lord  Randolph  Churchill,  Sir  Drummond  Wolff, 
and  (occasionally)  Mr  A.  J.  Balfour,  he  constituted  the  historical 
*  Fourth  Party,'  and  earned  the  gratitude  of  his  chiefs  by 
resigning  his  claim  to  the  Solicitor-Generalship  to  make  way 
for  Sir  Edward  Clarke.  He  became  Under-Secretary  for 
India  in  1886,  was  admitted  to  the  Privy  Council  in  the  present 
year,  and  lately  was  sent  with  Mr  Burt  as  British  representative 
to  the  International  Labour  Congress  at  Berlin.  He  was  bom 
at  Preston  fifty-five  years  ago,  and  is  known  as  a  clever  debater 
and  a  man  who  is  likely  to  become  some  day  a  Cabinet 
Minister. 

In  the  list  of  'birthday  honours'  we  note  the  knighthood 
conferred  on  Henry  Ludlow  (Eighth  Wrangler  1857),  formerly 
Fellow  of  the  College.  Sir  Henry  Ludlow  is  the  eldest 
surviving  son  of  Mr  George  Ludlow,  of  Hertford ;  he  was  called 
to  the  Bar  in  1 862,  and  has  been  Attorney-General  of  Trinidad 
since  1874. 

Among  the  distinguished  persons  on  whom  the  University 
conferred  on  June  10  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  in  Science 
is  our  Honorary  Fellow,  Professor  J.  J.  Sylvester,  who  is  one 
of  the  contributors  to  the  present  number  of  the  Eagle.  By 
the  kindness  of  the  Public  Orator,  we  are  able  to  give  our 
readers  the  text  of  the  speech  made  in  presenting  him  for 
his  degree. 

Plusquam  tres  et  quinquaginta  anni  sunt  elapsi,  ex  quo  Academiae  nostrae 
inter  silvas  adulescens  quidam  errabat,  populi  sacri  antiquissima  stirpc 
oriundus,  cuius  maiores  ultimi   primum  Chaldaeorum  in   campis,  deinde 


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2  90  Our  Chronicle. 

Palestinae  in  coUibns,  caeli  noctumi  stellas  iimiimerabiles,  pralis  fiitune 
velut  imaginem  referentes,  non  sine  reverentia  quadam  sospiciebant.  Ipse 
nameronim  peritia  praeclanis,  primnm  inter  LondiDenses  Academiae  nostrae 
stadia  praecipua  ingenii  sui  lamine  illustrabat.  Postea  trans  aeqnor  Atlanti- 
cum  plosquam  semel  honorifice  vocatus,  fratribus  Dostris  transmarinis  doctri- 
nae  mathematicae  facem  praeferebat.  Naper  professoris  insignis  in  locum 
electns,  et  Britanniae  non  sine  laude  redditus,  in  Academia  Oxomoisi 
scientiae  flammam  indies  clariorem  exdtat.  Ubicunque  incedit,  exemplo 
sao  nova  studia  semper  accendit.  Sive  nnmerorom  itmpiav  ezplicat,  sire 
Geometriae  recentioris  terminos  extendit,  sive  regni  sni  velut  in  puro  caelo 
regiones  prius  iuexploratas  pererrat,  scientiae  suae  inter  principes  nbiqae 
conspicitur.  Nonnulla  quae  Newtonus  noster,  quae  Fresnelius,  lacobios, 
Sturmius,  alii,  imperfecta  reliquenmt,  Sylvester  noster  aut  elegantius  expli- 
cavit,  aut  argumentis  veris  comprobavit.  Quam  parvis  ab  initiis  argumenta 
quam  magna  evolvit ;  quotiens  res  prius  abditas  exprimere  conatus,  seimanem 
nostrum  ditavit,  et  nova  rerum  nomina  audacter  protulit !  Arte  quali  nume- 
rorum  leges  non  modo  poetis  antiquis  inteipretandis  sed  etiam  canninibos 
novis  pangendis  accommodat !  Neque  surdis  canit,  sed  '  respondent  onmia 
silvae/  si  quando,  inter  rerum  graviorum  curas,  aevi  prions  pastores  aemulatos, 
'Silvestrem  tenui  musam  meditator  avena.' 
Duco  ad  vos  CoUegii  Divi  loannis  Socium,  trium  simul  Academiamm  Sena- 
torem,  quattuor  deinceps  Academianun  Professorem,  Iacobum  Iosephum 
Sylvester. 

Professor  Sylvester,  with  Professor  Cayley,  has  just  been 
appointed  an  Officer  of  the  Legion  of  Honour  by  the  President 
of  the  French  Republic. 

The  Queen  has  been  pleased  to  approve  the  appointment  of 
Lord  Windsor  to  be  Lord  Lieutenant  and  Custos  Rotalorum  of 
Glamorgan,  in  the  room  of  the  late  Mr  Talbot,  M.P. 

Mr  R.  F.  Scott,  our  Senior  Bursar,  has  been  elected  a 
Fellow  and  Mr  H.  S.  Foxwell  a  Councillor,  of  University 
College,  London. 

Mr  J.  Bass  Mul linger,  our  Librarian,  has  been  appointed 
Birkbeck  Lecturer  at  Trinity  College  for  the  ensuing  academical 
year. 

Three  members  of  the  College  have  been  elected  Fellows  of 
the  Royal  Society:  they  are — Mr  S.  H.  Burbury  (bracketed 
Fifteenth  Wrangler  1854,  *  Routh's  year,'  Second  Classic,  and 
Second  Chancellor's  Medallist),  formerly  Fellow;  Mr  J.  J. 
Harris  Teall  (bracketed  Second  in  the  Natural  Sciences 
Tripos  1872),  formerly  Fellow;  and  Mr  W.  F.  R.  Weldon 
(First  Class  Natural  Sciences  Tripos  1881),  now  Fellow  of  the 
College. 

Mr  W.  F.  R.  Weldon,  F.R.S.,  and  Mr  G.  B.  Mathews, 
Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  University  College  of  North 
Wales,  have  expressed  their  desire  to  become  Supernumerary 
Fellows  (without  stipend) ;  the  tenure  of  their  Fellowships  has 
been  extended  for  five  years  under  Statute  XX.  The  tenure  of 
the  Fellowship  of  Mr  G.  F.  Stout  has  been  likewise  extended 
for  three  years,  in  consideration  of  his  contributions  to 
Psychology. 


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By  the  kindness  of  the  Steward  we  are  enabled  to  give  our 
readers  a  print  of  the  original  and  highly  symbolical  engraving 
which  adorned  the  bill  of  fare  at  the  Commemoration  Dinner 
on  May  6.  The  guests  included  the  University  Representatives 
in  Parliament  (Sir  George  Stokes  and  the  Rt  Hon  H.  C.  Raikea). 


3u»0tt  ijitttc  Somitiani  »omam  UeUticittit  et  t>el>ueto  omnejj  eapilli 
pro  liert^ione  a  eapite  praejielnDuttttit  ac  ante  pottam  urttj, 
quae  latina  UUitut,  in  lioUum  Inbentte  olci  (gne  lie^ubln  canOente 
mittl  Ittbfttit,  nullum  taiuftt  Ibtom  l^olotm  0fnrit  0fl>  penUujJ 

iUai^ujs  exlbU.  «       ^  « 

Urgettlja  Sutea. 


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2g2  Our  Chronicle, 

Mr  C.  A.  M.  Pond  B.A.  (First  Class  Classical  Tripos 
1885-87),  late  Scholar  and  Editor  of  the  Eagle,  has  been  elected 
to  the  Prendergast  Greek  Studentship  of  /'200  for  one  year. 
This  is  the  first  election,  and  the  Student  is  to  devote  himself  to 
study  and  research  in  the  Greek  Language,  Literature,  History, 
'  Philosophy,  Archaeology,  or  Art. 

Sir  William  Browne's  Medal  for  the  Greek  Epigram  has 
been  gained  by  T.  R.  Glover,  Scholar  of  the  College. 

Mr  W.  J.  Ford  M.A.  (Second  Class  Classical  Tripos  1876), 
formerly  Scholar,  has  been  elected  Head-master  of  Leamington 
College.,  He  was  a  member  of  the  University  Eleven,  for  a 
time  a  Master  at  Marlborough,  and  lately  Principal  of  Nelson 
College,  New  Zealand. 

Mr  F.  W.  Hill  (bracketed  Third  Wrangler  1886),  Fellow  of 
the  College,  and  late  Master  at  Fettes  College,  has  been  elected 
to  the  Head  Mathematical  Mastership  of  the  City  of  London 
School.  The  final  choice  lay  between  three  Johnians,  Mr  Hill, 
Mr  R.  W.  Hogg  (bracketed  Sixth  Wrangler  1883),  Mathematical 
Master  at  Christ's  Hospital,  and  Mr  McAulay  (bracketed 
Seventh  Wrangler  1882),  Mathematical  Master  at  St  Paul's 
School.  There  was  a  very  large  number  of  candidates,  so  that 
the  selection  by  the  preliminary  committee  of  three  members  of 
the  College  is  something  to  be  proud  of. 

Mr  W.  F.  Smith,  Fellow  and  Lecturer  of  the  College,  has 
completed  a  new  translation  of  Rabelais,  with  critical  and 
explanatory  notes ;  and  proposes  to  issue  it  by  subscription  in  a 
limited  edition  of  750  copies.  The  price  of  each  copy  is 
twenty-five  shillings,  and  the  agent  who  will  receive  subscribers' 
names  is  Mr  A.  P.  Watt,  2  Paternoster  Row,  London  E.C. 

The  Rev  F.  Watson  B.D.,  Lecturer  of  the  College,  was  one 
of  the  candidates  for  the  Regius  Professorship  of  Divinity  to 
which  Dr  Swete  has  just  been  elected.  He  delivered  a 
brilliant  exposition  of  the  Book  of  Genesis  before  the  Council 
of  the  Senate  in  the  Arts  School  on  June  4. 

Mr  H.  F.  Baker  (bracketed  Senior  Wrangler  1887,  Smith's 
Prizeman  1889)  has  been  appointed  a  College  Lecturer  in 
Mathematics. 

Mr  Love,  Fellow  and  Lecturer  in  Mathematics,  has  been 
nominated  by  the  College  as  Moderator  for  the  ensuing  year. 

We  should  have  mentioned  in  a  former  number  that 
Mr  R.  A.  Sampson  (Third  Wrangler  1888)  had  been  appointed 
Mathematical  Lecturer  at  King's  College,  London,  under 
Professor  W.  H.  H.  Hudson,  formerly  Fellow. 


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Mr  A.  C.  Seward  M.A.  (First  Class  Natural  Sciences 
Tripos  1885—1886),  late  Hutchinson  Student,  has  been 
appointed  a  University  Lecturer  in  Botany. 

The  following  ecclesiastical  appointments  are  announced : 

Name,  B»A,  from  to 

Matthews, }.  H.   (1882)  M.A.    C.    of    Knaresbo-    R.ofHedgerley,Backs. 

rouRh, 

LitUe,  J.  R.  (1855)  M.A.    Sen.  Masterat Ton- 

bridge  School, 

Lees,  W.  LL        (1831)  M.A.    C.    of   St   David, 

Carmarthen, 

Cherrington,A.O.  V.  of  Ogley  Hay, 


(J879) 


Stedman,  R.  P. 

Wyles,  W. 

Close,  R.  W. 
Crouch,  W. 
Ldghton,  J. 

M61esworth,£.IL(i885)  M.A. 

Whytehcad,R.Y.  (1869) 

Robinson,  G.        (1869)  M.A. 

Sandeis,  S.  J.W.  (1864)  LL.D. 


R.  of  Stansfield,  Suf- 
folk. 
Y.    of    Llangmmock, 

Carmarthen. 
V.    of    St   Margaret, 

Birmingham. 
V.  of  St  Martin,  Bry- 

house. 
V.  of  Coddenham,  Suf- 
folk. 
R.ofChilderley,Cambs. 
V.  Gamlingay,  Cambs. 
V.  of  Thornton,  Brad- 
ford. 
C.  of  Ch.  Ch.,  Lan-    Inc.  of  St  John,  Jed- 
caster  Gate,  burgh. 
V.    of  Bewhohne,    V.  Madingley,  Cambs. 

Hull, 
V.  of  Ulgham,  Mor-    R.  Dean  of  Morpeth. 

peth, 
Hd.-mstr.  of  North-    Hon.  Canon  of  Peter- 
ampton  Grammar       borough. 


(1878)  M.A.  C.  of  Halifax, 
(1873)  M.A.  C.  of  Ingham, 
(1870)  M.A.    R.  of  ConingtoQ, 


C.  of  Fulbourn, 
C.  of  St  John,  Brad- 
ford. 


Dixon,  W.  F. 
Cowley,  S.  S. 
Pattinson,  J.  A. 
Askey,  A.  H. 
Bonney,  T.  G. 
McCormick,  J. 


(i860) 


mpl 
chc 


School, 


C.  of  Gimingham,  R  of  Ashby,  Norfolk. 

Norfolk, 

V.  Ch.  Ch.,  Wake-  V.  of  German,  Isle  of 

field,  Man. 

C.  of  Ch.  Ch.,  Sal-  V.  of  St  George,  Chor- 

ford,  ley. 

(1884)  M.A.    C.    of    St   James,  V.  of  Holton-le-Clay, 

Norwich,  Line. 

Boyle  Lecturer,  Chapel 
R..  WhitehaU. 

Y.  of  Holy  Trinity,  Hon.  Chaplain  to  Her 

Hull,  Majesty. 

Metcalfe,  W.  H.  (i86o)  MJ\.    V.    of    Otteiy    St  V.  of  Tipton  St  John, 

Mary,  Devon. 


(1884) 


(B.D.,D.Sc.) 
(1857)  D.D. 


The  following  graduates  of  the  College  were  ordained  on 
Trinity  Sunday : 

Diocese, 
Norwich 
Bath  and  Welb 
Truro 
St  Asaph 
Winchester 
Carlisle 
Canterbury 
Lichfield 
Chester 


Name, 
Ainger,  W.  H. 
Ashbumer,  W. 
Cousins,  W.  A. 
Davies,  T.  A. 
Ewmg,  G.  C. 
Hartley,  T.  P. 
Hill,  H.  £.  (M.A.) 
Taylor,  F. 
White,  G.  D. 

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Parish. 
East  Dereham 
St  Paul,  Bath 
Camborne 
Dyserth,  Flint 
Holy  Trin.,  Bournemouth 
St  Paul,  Carlisle 
St  Paul,  New  Beckenham 
Ch.  Ch.,  Tunstall 
St  John,  Birkenhead 


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Dr  Tavlor,  our  Master,  has  been  appointed  by  the  General 
Board  ox  Studies  a  member  of  the  Financial  Board  of  the 
University;  the  Master  has  also  been  chosen  an  Elector  to 
the  Sadlerian  Professorship  of  Mathematics,  in  the  room  of  the 
late  Dr  Phelps,  Master  of  Sidney  Sussex. 

We  are  indebted  to  the  Master  for  a  cabinet  photograph, 
to  be  inserted  in  the  album  of  portraits  of  former  Editors  of 
the  EagU. 

Mr  Pendlebuiy,  Fellow  and  Lecturer  of  the  College,  has 
presented  255  volumes  of  music  to  the  Fitzwilliam  Museum 
Libraiy  during  the  present  year. 

Professor  Mayor  has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the 
Syndicate  charged  with  securing  for  the  University  a  portion 
of  the  valuable  Middlehill  collection  of  MSS.  The  University 
has  made  a  grant  of  £^000  from  the  accumulated  funds  of  the 
University  Press  for  this  purchase. 

Dr  William  Hunter,  Fellow-commoner,  has  been  elected  by 
the  Grocers'  Company  to  a  Research  Studentship  in  Sanitary 
Science. 

Dr  Hunter  and  Mr  E.  H.  Hankin  were  selected  by  Professor 
Roy  to  deliver  advanced  University  lectures  in  Pathology  during 
the  present  term. 

There  are  fourteen  candidates  for  Fellowships  at  the  next 
Annual  Election,  to  be  held  in  November. 

The  dajrs  for  returning  books  to  the  College  Library  have 
been  thus  fixed: — March  24,  June  23,  the  first  Saturday  in 
September,  and  December  20.  The  penalties  in  the  case  of 
default  are  the  same  as  those  in  force  at  the  University  Library. 

The  Council  have  agreed  to  institute  an  examination  in 
Semitic  Languages  as  one  of  the  annual  College  Examinations. 

Among  recent  gifts  to  the  smaller  Combination-room  should 
be  mentioned  a  handsome  carved  oak  settle,  presented  by  Mr 
J.  R.  Tanner,  Fellow  and  I^ecturer  of  the  College. 

The  Rev  Alfred  Caldecott  M.A.  (First  Class  Moral  Sciences 
Tripos  1879)  and  late  Principal  of  Codrington  College, 
Barbadoes,  now  our  Junior  Dean,  has  been  elected  for  3ie 
second  time  to  a  Fellowship,  in  the  place  of  Mr  Hill  now 
Rector  of  Cockfield.  He  has  also  been  chosen  as  pro-proctor 
for  the  ensuing  academical  year. 

At  the  annual  election  of  members  of  the  College  Council, 
held  on  May  31,  Professor  Mayor,  Mr  Mason,  and  Professor 
Liveing  were  re-elected  for  another  term  of  four  years. 


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Dr  Bonney  has  been  appointed  Boyle  Lecturer  at  the  Chapel 
Royal,  Whitehall.  The  lectureship  is  for  three  years,  during 
which  eight  sermons  of  an  apologetic  character  are  to  be 
preached.  It  is  a  foundation  which  is  especially  fitted  to  give 
an  opportunity  for  Christian  philosophical  exposition,  Robert 
Boyle  having  been  himself  distinguished  for  his  scientific 
attainments  according  to  the  measure  of  his  time,  and  a  zealous 
and  faithful  layman  of  the  Church  of  England.  We  hope  to 
see  a  valuable  series  of  lectures  printed,  as  well  as  delivered 
orally,  by  Dr  Bonney. 

The  Hopkins  Prize  of  the  Cambridge  Philosophical  Society 
has  been  awarded  by  the  adjudicators  (Sir  W.  Thomson,  Lord 
Rayleigh,  and  Professor  George  Darwin)  to  Professor  W.  M. 
Hicks  F.R.S.,  formerly  Fellow,  for  his  memoir  on  the  Theory 
of  Vortex  Rings  (Phil.  Trans.  1885),  and  for  his  earlier  memoirs 
upon  related  subjects  between  1883  and  1885. 

The  preachers  in  the  College  Chapel  this  term  have  been—* 
Mr  Whitaker,  Dr  Abbott  (Commemoration),  Mr  Lowther  Clarke, 
Mr  Ingram,  and  Mr  Watson. 

On  Tune  5  the  Fellows  resident  in  College  gave  an  "At 
Home  in  the  Hall,  Combination-rooms,  and  Library.  About 
550  members  of  the  University  and  visitors  were  present,  and 
the  reception  was  altogether  a  brilliant  success. 

A  fire  was  discovered  in  the  night  of  May  2,  in  H  New  Court. 
The  cause  has  not  been  clearly  made  out,j  but  the  damage  done 
was  not  great. 

The  Rev  H.  T.  E.  Bariow  M.A.,  Chaplain  to  the  Bishop 
of  Sodor  and  Man,  was  admitted  to  Priest's  Orders  on  Trinity 
Sunday,  after  a  diaconate  of  only  six  months. 

The  Rev  E.  T.  Sandys  B.A.,  Curate  of  Aston,  Birmingham, 
has  ofered  to  serve  the  Church  Missionary  Society,  and  has 
been  accepted  for  service  abroad. 

The  thanks  of  the  University  have  been  given  to  Professor 
Adams  for  a  generous  donation  of  /"loo  towards  the  purchase 
of  a  site  for  the  great  Newall  Telescope,  recently  presented 
to  the  University. 

Mr  Newbold,  Fellow  of  the  College,  has  generously  sent 
a  gift  of  Z' 1 00  towards  the  reduction  of  the  debt  on  the  College 
Chapel.  A  substantial  reduction  of  the  debt  has  also  been 
made  by  the  transference  to  it  of  a  sum  from  another  fund. 

The  Rev  H.  J.  Sharpe,  Vicar  of  Marham,  has  been  appointed 
by  the  College  a  Governor  of  Kingfs  Lynn  Grammar  School 
in  the  place  of  Mr  Rudd,  resigned. 


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Mr  W.  H.  Gunston,  Auditor  of  the  College,  has  been  ap- 
pointed by  the  Council  of  the  Senate  a  Governor  of  St  Olave's 
School,  Southwark. 

Dr  Mc  Cormick,  Vicar  of  Holy  Trinity,  Hull,  and  Canon  of 
York,  has  been  appointed  an  Honorary  Chaplain  to  the  Queen. 
An  old  L.M.B.C.  man,  Dr  Mc  Cormick,  has  for  15  years  been 
Vicar  of  a  parish  of  22,000  people,  with  one  of  the  three  largest 
Parish  Churches  in  England. 

The  Rev  H.  Cubbon  (B.A.  1887),  late  of  Mansfield  College, 
Oxford,  has  been  appointed  to  a  pastoral  charge  at  Banbury. 

We  regret  that  we  are  not  able  to  give  our  readers  the  text 
of  Dr  Abbott* s  excellent  Commemoration  Sermon.  It  was 
preached  extempore^  and  without  notes.  The  following  abstract 
appeared  in  Church  Bells  of  May  16,  1890. 

Dr  Abbott  spoke  from  the  words  (St  John  viiL  32),  /The  truth  shall 
make  you  free.' 

<  On  such  an  occasion  as  this,'  he  said,  *  we  may  well  consider  what  was 
the  object  for  which  the  founder  founded  and  the  benefactors  benefited  this 
ancient  and  religious  foundation.  The  answer  surely  is  tke  Truth,  Thef 
wished  that  it  should  assist  in  the  investigation  of  truth.  What,  then,  is 
truth  ?  Let  us  ask  the  question,  not  in  jest,  but  that  we  may  ponder  and 
learn.  In  the  first  place,  however,  we  may  notice  that  truth  does  make  us 
free  in  all  cases.  Whether  we  are  studying  the  var3ring  phases  of  human 
nature  and  learning  to  move  and  touch  our  fellow-beings  by  our  words,  or 
whether  we  are  busying  ourselves  with  the  mysteries  of  science,  and  dis- 
covering her  laws ;  whatever  may  be  the  kind  of  truth  which  we  are  pursuing, 
the  knowledge  of  it  makes  us  free  and  powerful.  But  the  truth  of  which 
St  John  spedcs  is  a  different  kind  of  truth,  and  it  brings  with  it  a  di£ferent 
kind  of  freedom. 

'  What,  then,  is  this  higher  freedom  of  which  our  higher  nature  feels  the 
need  ?  It  is  <*  freedom  in  ourselves  and  from  our  own  passions,  from  dark 
and  superstitious  fears,  from  great  devouring  cares,  from  minor  worries." 
And  for  the  truth  which  shall  make  us  thus  free  we  must  investigate  the 
Word  of  God.  In  the  Old  Testament,  first,  we  notice  that  truth  is  always 
spoken  of  in  connexion  with  God's  judgment  and  righteousness.  The  truth 
of  God  seems  almost  to  mean  His  "adherence  to  lus  promises ;  it  teUs  He 
is  faithful."  In  the  Bible  version  of  the  Psalms  we  read  of  **  Grod  who 
keepeth  His  truth  for  ever ; "  in  the  Prayer-book  it  is  "His  promise."  And 
He  keeps  not  only  the  orderly  laws  of  the  material  universe,  which  we 
strive  so  often  to  unravel,  but  those  other  laws  of  truthful  judgment  and 
retribution.    He  is  the  Righteous  Judge,  who  judgeth  according  to  truth. 

*In  the  New  Testament  we  see  God,  not  as  the  Righteous  Judge,  but 
as  the  Father  of  men.  In  Christ  we  see  His  Spirit  ever  faithful,  and  opposing 
sin,  doing  battle  against  all  unrighteousness.  The  Truth,  then,  is  to  know 
Christ  and  nothing  else.  All  oUier  truth  is  illusory  except  in  so  far  as  it 
leads  towards  the  "truth  of  truths,"  the  incarnate  promise  of  good,  which, 
"  when  we  have  seen,  we  have  seen  the  Father."  It  is  truth  that  should 
be  bought  at  any  price,  for  it  is  priceless,  bringing  with  it  the  gift  of  liberty 
and  true  freedom,  freedom  for  loving  service  for  God  our  Father.  But  now, 
how  can  you  in  your  youth  hold  fast  to*this  truth,  and  keep  it  by  you  in  the 
future,  in  the  "stirring,  bustling,  and  competitive  world?"  It  b  not,  my 
brethren,  by  the  assurance  of  the  authenticity  of  certain  facts,  of  the  soundness 
and  exactitude  of  certain  forms.  The  Christ  must  be  a  living  power  in  your 
hearts  to  be  loved  and  trusted  in,  and  you  must  live  earnestly  and  not 


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frivolously  if  you  would  keep  your  faith  unshaken.  Cause  and  effect^  cause 
and  effect^cause  and  effect  work  as  surely  in  the  spirit  world  as  in  the 
material.  And  that  you  may  attain  faith  I  would  bid  you  meditate  "  on  the 
possibilities  of  good  in  human  nature/'  and  cultivate  a  reverence  for  goodness. 
It  will  be  well  sdso  to  remember  that  the  **  things  which  are  seen  are  temporal^ 
but  those  that  are  not  seen  are  eternal."  Avoid  as  far  as  you  can  the 
distractions  of  modem  life,  practise  concentration,  and  be  sometimes  alone, 
not  only  with  God  in  prayer,  but  with  Shakespeare,  with  Plato,  and  with 
Wordsworth,  whereby  the  cultivation  of  your  mtellects  may  increase  your 
fdth.  But  remember  also  that,  as  one  of  the  greatest  of  New  Testament 
commentatois  has  said,  *<  After  all,  nothine  can  be  done  in  the  study  of  the 
New  Testament  without  prayer,"  and  this  that  is  trae  of  the  New  Testament 
is  true  of  life.  I  have  stated  convictions  and  not  arguments,  because  I  believed 
that  under  the  circumstances  they  might  be  more  forcible ;  but  I  would  close 
with  the  words  of  the  late  master  of  Fettes  College,  "  that  a  firm  faith  in 
Christ  is  the  sole  firm  stay  in  mortal  life ;  all  things  but  Christ  are  illusory ; 
duty  is  the  one  sole  thing  worth  living  for."  Our  founder  speaks  these  words, 
our  benefactors  speak  them,  and  may  they  be  engraved  upon  the  hearts  of 
many  of  you  here,  young  men,  who,  in  your  turn,  perchance,  may  repeat 
them  in  this  pulpit,  and  so  pass  them  on  to  generations  of  the  future.' 

At  the  Election  of  Officers  of  the  Union  Society  for  the 
ensuing  October  Term,  Mr  E.  W.  Mac  Bride  was  elected  Secre- 
tary, Messrs  Kempt  and  T.  R.  Glover  were  elected  members 
of  the  Standing  Committee,  the  former  heading  the  poll.  Mr 
G.  C.  M.  Smith  has  served  on  the  Library  Committee  during 
the  present  term. 

From  Folk-lore  we  learn  that  the  editor,  Mr  Joseph  Jacobs 
(Senior  Moral  Sciences  Tripos  1876),  is  collecting  English  fairy 
tales.  A  popular  selection  of  these,  with  illustrations,  will 
probably  be  issued  during  the  Christmas  season  of  this  year, 
to  be  followed  later  on  by  a  scientific  treatment  of  the  subject, 
which  may  run  to  two  volumes. 

The  University  Press  have  arranged  to  reprint  specimens 
of  College  Examination  Papers,  including  those  of  St  John's. 
This  will  be  a  great  convenience  to  schoolmasters  and  students, 
and  the  wonder  is  that  it  has  not  been  done  sooner. 

A  brass  tablet  on  a  black  marble  slab  has  been  placed  in  the 
Warrington  Parish  Church  to  the  memory  of  the  late  Rector, 
the  Rev  W.  Quekett.  The  inscription  is  as  follows : — "  In 
loving  memory  of  the  Rev  William  Quekett  M.A.  of  St  John's 
College,  Cambridge,  nearly  thirty  years  Rector  of  Warrington, 
who  was  born  at  Langport,  Somerset,  3rd  October,  1802,  and 
died  at  the  Rectory,  Warrington,  on  Good  Friday,  30th  March, 
1888,  by  whose  exertions  this  Parish  Church  was  rebuilt,  and 
of  whose  work  many  traces  are  to  be  found  both  in  Warrington 
and  in  the  Parish  of  St  George's-in-the-East,  London.  This 
tablet  is  erected  by  his  widow,  Louisa  Quekett."    (See  Eagle  xv.). 

A  handsome  testimonial  was  presented  to  the  Rev  J. 
Wilberforce  Doran,  late  Vicar  of  Fenstanton,  on  his  leaving 
the  village  to  assume  the  Rectory  of  Souldeme. 


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The  Chrisiian  of  May  2,  1890,  gives  an  excellent  portrait 
and  a  biographical  sketch  of  the  Rev  W.  H.  Barlow,  B.D.  Vicar 
of  Islington,  formerly  Scholar  of  the  College  {B.A.  1857).  ^^ 
will  be  best  known  to  the  present  generation  of  Johnians  as  the 
father  of  our  much-missed  H.  T.  E.  Barlow,  now  Chaplain  to 
the  Bishop  of  Sodor  and  Man. 

The  News  of  May  21  contains  a  portrait  and  biography  of 
the  Rev  George  Everard,  Vicar  of  Christ  Church,  Dover  (B.A« 
1 851),  formerly  Scholar.  He  is  the  author  of  numerous  works 
of  religious  interest. 

There  is  a  portrait  of  the  Rev  F.  F.  Gough,  of  Ningpo» 
whose  death  we  chronicled  in  the  last  number,  in  the  Church 
Missionary  Gleaner  for  May  1890.  Bishop  Moule  states  that 
Mr  Gough  was  the  originator  of  the  Cambridge  University 
Church  Missionary  Society. 

A  portrait  of  Dean  Merivale  appeared  in  connexion  with 
an  article  on  Cambridge  Racing  in  the  English  lUustraied 
Magazine  for  April.  An  article  on  Rugby^  by  Judge  Hughes 
(Author  of  Tom  BrmjotCs  School  Days)  and  H.  Lee  Warner, 
formerly  Fellow,  is  promised  in  an  early  number  of  the  same 
magazine. 

It  should  have  been  stated  that  the  volume  of  Euripides, 
included  in  the  last  list  of  Donations  to  the  Library  presented  by 
T.  R.  Howard,  Esq.,  contains  the  autograph  of '  W.  C.  Macready,* 
the  eminent  tragedian,  and  was  probably  purchased  by  him  in 
181 1  (in  which  year  it  first  appeared)  when  hoping  to  go  to 
Oxford — ^a  design  frustrated  by  the  '  res  angusta  domi.'  In  the 
course  of  the  work  now  going  on  in  connexion  with  the  New 
Catalogue  several  other  interesting  autographs  have  come  to 
light.  No  less  than  five  of  the  volumes  formerly  in  the  libraries 
of  Bishop  Gunning  and  Bishop  Morton  contain  the  autograph 
of  Ben  Jonson ;  while  a  small  4to  volume,  entitled  '  Fasciculus 
temporum  omnes  antiquorum  cronicas  succincte  complectens, 
15 18'  (the  work  of  the  Carthusian  Werner),  contains  the  rare 
autograph  of  *  W.  Ralegh/  and  was  probably  used  by  him  when 
writing  his  ^History  of  the  Worlds 

Mr  G.  B.  Mathews,  Fellow  of  the  College,  has  presented 
the  Library  with  a  complete  set  of  the  new  quarto  edition  of 
the  Monumenta  Germaniae  Historical  which  includes  the  latest 
texts  of  the  earliest  Latin  writers  on  German  History, -of  the 
earliest  codes  of  the  different  Germanic  peoples,  a  newly 
revised  collection  of  the  Pontifical  letters  relating  to  Germany 
in  the  eventful  thirteenth  century,  the  Latin  Poets  of  the 
Carolingian  period,  &c.  Besides  this  important  collection, 
our  Library  shelves  will  also  receive,  by  the  liberality  of  the 
same  donor,  copies  of  some  approved  standard  works  on 
French  history  by  Barante,  Lachaire,  Wallon,  &c. 


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The  Harkness  University  Scholarship  in  Geology  has  been 
awarded  to  Henry  Woods  (First  Class  Natural  Sciences  Tripos 
Part  II  1890),  Scholar  of  the  College. 

A  charming  rendering  of  Tennyson's  Demeier  into  Latin 
Hexameters,  by  Dr  H.  K3niaston,  appears  in  a  recent  number 
of  the  Cheltenham  College  Magazine. 

A  welcome  opportunity  has  this  term  been  provided  of 
enj6ying  Dr  Garrett's  skilful  performance  of  classical  music 
on  the  renovated  organ.  Large  numbers  stayed  after  the 
evening  service  on  June  i  and  June  8,  and  seemed  greatly 
to  appreciate  his  rendering  of  the  following  selections : 

June  I. 

I    Toccata  and  Fugue  in  D  Minor y.  S.  Bach 

3    Adagio  and  Allegretto  (Op.  73) Spohr 

3  Andante  EsPRESSivo Reirucke 

4  March "  David  " HorsUy 

yun^S. 

1  Sonata,  in  A,  No.  3 Mendelssohn 

2  Andante— Varie S.  S,  Wesley 

3  Andante  con  Moto Silas 

4  Prelude  and  Fugue  (on  the  name  of  Bach)  ..y  S.  Bach 

The  Exhibitions  offered  to  the  best  candidates  at  the  Cam- 
bridge Senior  Local  Examination  have  been  awarded  to  W.  Raw, 
of  the  Newcastle  Royal  Grammar  School,  as  first  in  Mathematics, 
and  to  J.  E.  Franks,  of  Coatham  Grammar  School,  as  first  in 
Classics. 

We  have  just  seen  a  Spanish  treatise  entitled  Teoria  Elemental 
de  las  Formas  Algehraicas,  por  D.  Juan  J.  Duran  y  Loriga,  Capitdn 
de  Artillerla  (Segovia  1889),  which  bears  the  following  dedica- 
tion to  a  former  Fellow  of  the  College:  A  Mr  A.  G.  Greenhill, 
Mayor  de  la  real  artUleria  inglesay  Miemhto  de  la  real  sociedad  de 
Londres  etc.  etc,  Homenaje  al  illustre  artillero  y  sabio  materndtico^ 
saludo  carinosa  al  amigp^  Juan  J.  Duran, 

The  following  books  by  members  of  the  College  are 
announced : — The  Latin  Gate  (Seeley),  by  Dr  E.  A.  Abbott ; 
Professor  Elihu  Thomson* s  Electro-magnetic  Induction  Experiments 
(Society  of  Arts),  by  Dr  J.  A.  Fleming;  Geometrical  Conies  (Mac- 
millan),  by  Rev  J.  J.  Milne  and  R.  F.  Davis ;  The  Elements  of 
Solid  Geometry  (Macmillan),  by  R.  B.  Ha3rward  F.R.S. ;  The 
Trials  of  a    Country  Parson  (Fisher  Unwin),  by  Rev  Dr  A. 

iessopp ;  Juke^  School  Manual  of  Geology  (Black),  fifth  edition, 
y  A.  J.  Jukes-Browne;  The  Study  of  English  Literature^  a 
lecture  delivered  at  the  Polytechnikum  of  Zurich  (Deighton),  by 
Professor  C.  Sapsworth ;  Christian  Character-building  (Wyllie 
and  Son),  by  Rev  C.  A.  Scott ;  Salutary  Doctrine  (S.  P.  C.  K.), 
by  the  Rt  Rev  C.  T.  Ellicott ;  A  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret 
Boat  Club,  compiled  from  the  Club  Minute  Books  and  other  sources 
(printed  by  subscription),  by  R.  H.  Forster  and  W.  Harris. 


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JOHNIANA. 

The  Master  of  St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  to  whom  we  are  indebted 
not  merely  for  a  most  interesting  book  on  the  Didachey  but  also  for  a  not 
less  interesting  essay  on  the  theology  of  the  same,  has  laid  us  under  a  further 
obligation  by  his  marvellously  lucid  article :  "  The  Didache  compared  vith 
the  Shepherd  of  Hermas"  — (in  the  jfoumal  of  Philology,  Vol.  xviii.  pp. 
298—325).  From  this  we  see  that  Hermas  knew  of  the  Didache,  Now, 
the  Didache  is  of  equal,  if  not  of  greater,  interest  to  us  Jews  for  oar 
literature  and  doctrines  at  that  time  than  to  Christians.  We  may  well 
wonder  whether  the  Judseo-Christians  of  that  day  would  recognise  the 
Christianity  of  1890,  or  would  even  believe  that  it  had  developed  itself  from 
their  tenets.  Our  thanks  are  due  to  the  Master  of  St  John's  for  his  abiHty, 
and  above  all,  for  his  impartiality. 

S,  M.  SchUler-Szinessy  :  The  Jewish  World,  March  14,  1890. 

The  language  of  the  New  Testament  is,  as  our  readers  are  aware^ 
receiving  much  attention  just  now.  Accordingly  the  Rev  William  Spicer 
Wood,  M.A.,  Rector  of  Ufford-cum-Bainton,  and  late  Fellow  of  St  John's 
College,  Cambridge,  has  treated  readers  with  twenty-five  brief  "Critical 
£ssays,"  upon  really  difficult  passages,  which  evince  much  ingenuity,  and  have 
much  suggestiveness.  Mr  Wood  is  evidently  a  thoughtful  and  accurate  scholar, 
and  throws  light  on  many  difficulties.  But  his  meUiod  is  too  much  grounded 
upon  classical  usages,  and  too  little  upon  the  Septuagint,  for  his  conclusions 
to  be  always  satisfactory  throughout  his  Problems  in  the  New  Testament 
(Rlvingtons,  pp.164).  He  appears  also  to  undervalue  somewhat  too  much 
traditional  interpretations.  But  the  book  deserves  the  attention  of  all 
students  of  New  Testament  Greek. 

Church  Times :  March  14,  1890. 

The  feature  undoubtedly  of  the  sale  [of  the  Bibliotheca  Lindeseiana,  the 
Earl  of  Crawford's  Library]  is  the  collection  of  books  of  Liturgy,  some  r4i 
in  number.  In  no  single  collection  may  be  found  all  the  editiones  primaria 
of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  such  as  were  reprinted  some  years  ago  by 
Pickering.  Yet  it  will  be  found  that  the  present  collection  goes  far  towards 
an  ideal  set.  Beginning  with  the  ante-Reformation  period,  we  find  of  the 
York  Rite  the  "  Missale,*'  the  *'  Manuale,"  and  the  "  Hone.*'  Of  the  firet, 
four  other  copies  are  known,  all  in  public  libraries,  but  none  finer  than  the 
present  one.  Of  the  second  and  third  works  only  a  single  copy  of  each 
IS  to  be  found.  Of  the  Sarum  Rite  there  are  two  Missjds  of  the  highest 
degree  of  rarity,  the  earlier  being  probably  unique,  while  of  the  second 
St  John's,  Cambridge,  has  the  only  other  copy. 

Times:  June  12,  1889. 

Nathan  Drake,  auteur  d'un  volumtneuz  ouvrage  sur  Shakespeare  et  son 
6poque  (publi6  en  181 7)  raconte  que  T^iteur  de  saint  Chrysostome,  le 
r^v^rend  John  Boys,  pendant  les  armies  de  son.  professorat  an  college  de 
Saint- Jean,  ^  Cambridge,  donnait  b^n^volement  et  par  pur  amour  du  grec 
une  \egon  suppl6mentaire  de  grec  tons  les  jours  dans  sa  chambre,  i  quatre 
heures  du  matin,  et  que  cette  legon  6tait  r^guli^ement  suivie  par  piesque 
tons  les  ^tudiants  de  son  college;  voilil  un  fait  qui  ^gale  tout  ce  qu'oa 
rapporte  en  France  de  Tardeur  de  Guillaume  Bud£  au  travail,  ou  de 
I'enthousiasme  de  Ronsard  et  de  Baif  pour  la  science,  durant  les  amines  de 
leur  noviciat  an  coUdge  de  Coqueret. 

Paul  Stapfer:  Shakespeare  et  T  Antiquity,  p.  23 
(Paris  1 879). 

Dr  ScaRgill— The  following  passage  occurs  in  a  MS.  letter  in  my 
possession,  written  by  John  Gibson,  and  dated  "  St  John's  Coll.,  Cambr., 
July  26,  1669":— -"Ye  news  yt  fills  all  mouth's  here  is  yo  Recantation  of 
!br  Scargill  wch  I  have  sent  you  in  print  (if  you  please)  to  read  it  at  large." 
Who  was  Dr  Scargill  ?  and  what  did  he  recant  ?  W.  R.  Tate. 

Walpole  Vicarage,  Halesworth. 

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Dr  Abbott,  of  whom  we  shall  hear  more  as  a  theologian  tiow  that  he 
has  laid  aside  the  Head-master's  gown,  preached  the  Commemoration 
sermon  this  year  at  St  John's  College,  Cambridge.  Two  sentences  may  be 
quoted  as  showing  Dr  Abbott's  standing-point.  "It  is  not,  my  brethren, 
by  the  assurance  of  the  authenticity  of  certain  &cts  or  the  soundness  and 
exactitude  of  certain  forms  that  you  will  hold  fast  to  this  truth ;  the  Christ 

must  be  a  living  power Avoid  as  far  as  you  can  the  distractions  of 

modem  life,  practice  concentration,  and  be  sometimes  alone,  not  only  wiUi 
God  in  ptayer,  but  with  Shakespeare,  with  Plato,  and  with  Wordsworth, 
whereby  the  cultivation  of  our  mtellects  may  increase  your  faith."  The 
preacher  ended  with  a  tribute  to  his  old  college  fnend,  Dr  Potts,  the  late 
Master  of  Fettes  College,  and  a  quotation  from  one  of  his  lay  sermons : 
"  Duty  is  the  one  sole  thmg  worth  living  for." 

St  yamis's  Gazette  :  May  22,  1890. 

Sound  in  his  facts,  salient  in  his  outlines,  and  suave  in  his  manner, 
Mr  Clark  pux  his  Cambridge:  brief ,  historical  and  descriptive  notes\  has 
presented  to  the  world  in  general,  and  to  Cantabs  in  particular,  a  sketch  of 
the  University  of  Cambridge  which  is  singularly  attractive.  We  have  no 
time  to  loiter  with  him  in  the  contemplation  of  the  Old  Court  of  Trinity  or 
follow  him  as  he  passes  through  the  cloisters  to  the  chapel  of  Tesus ;  we 
cannot  listen  while  he  tells  us  the  story  of  that  benevolent  fundatrix^  the 
Lady  Margaret,  Countess  of  Richmond,  on  whose  placid  features  all  the 
world  has  been  gaziog  at  the  recent  Xudor  Exhibition;  nor  much  as  we 
should  vrish  it,  can  we  here  reproduce  the  very  charming  anecdotes  he 
repeats  of  medieval  and  modem  University  life. 

Education  :  May  1890. 

Far  away  from  the  echoes  of  the  tramp  of  the  soldier  and  the  sound  of 
the  drum,  another  distinguished  Jew  has  conferred  upon  the  Jewish  Com- 
munity the  reflected  glory  of  his  own  lasting  fame.  James  Joseph  S^^lvester's 
is  a  name  too  little  Imown  outside  academical  circles.  Yet  the  influence 
of  his  studies  and  writings  has  revolutionised  modem  mathematics.  Both 
the  ancient  Universities  vie  with  each  other  in  doing  him  honour.  It  is 
now  officiaJly  announced  that  Prof.  Sylvester,  M.A.,  F.R.S.  Honorary 
Fellow  of  John  s  College,  Cambridge,  and  Savilian  Professor  of  Geometry 
cxf  Oxford,  is  one  of  the  distinguished  persons  upon  whom  will  be  conferred* 
on  June  10,  at  Cambridge,  the  Honorary  Degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws.  It 
will  be  remembered  that  when  this  distingu^ed  mathematican  took  a 
place  in  the  Tripos  which  entitled  him  to  l^  called  Secoad  Wrangler,  he 
was  unable  to  proceed  to  the  degree  of  B.A.,  to  which  this  distinction 
entitled  him,  because  he  could  not  as  a  Jew  submit  to  the  religious  tests 
which  were  then  imposed  upon  graduates  of  the  old  Universities. 

Jewish  Chronicle :  May  23,  1890. 

"Preacher  at  once  and  zany  of  the  age,"  wrote  Pope  in  the  Dunciad, 
of  the  notorious  stump  orator  mvinc,  John  Henley,  bom  May  28,  1692,  and 
a  graduate  of  St  John's  College,  Cambridge.  After  quarrelling  with  his 
ecclesiastical  superiors  he  set  up  a  pulpit  in  Clare  market,  whose  butchers 
became  Henley^  warm  partisans  and  formed  his  bodyguard,  a  necessary 
adjunct,  for  the  lecturer's  attacks  on  public  men  were  of  the  most  scurrilous 
character.  Cited  before  the  Privy  Council  for  some  scandalous  remarks  on 
Herring,  Archbishop  of  York,  the  culprit  coolly  rejoined,  "  I  really  thought, 
my  lords,  that  there  was  no  harm  in  cracking  a  joke  on  a  red  herring." 
When  achnonished  to  keep  a  civil  tongue  in  his  head  for  the  future,  Henley 
only  said,  <<But  I  must  live;"  whereupon  Lord  Chesterfield  made  the 
famous  reply,  "I  don't  see  the  necessity."  During  his  more  palmy  days 
Henley  was  able  to  command  a  shilling  admission  to  his  sermons,  but  later 
his  eloquence  became  less  appreciated.  The  orator's  audacity  rose  as  his 
means  decreased.  He  publisned  an  advertisement  to  shoemakers,  stating 
that  it  had  been  his  good  fortune  to  discover  a  method  of  making  shoes  with 

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woodofiil  quickness.  The  secret  consisted  of  cntting  off  the  tops  of  old 
boots.  To  this  advertisement  Henley  appended  the  motto,  Omne  majut 
C4mtinet  in  u  mi$ius^f^  The  greater  indudes  the  less." 

Lloyds'  Newspaper:  May  25,  1890. 

The  two  teachers  who  are  said  to  have  recently  exerted  the  greatest 
influence  over  the  theology  of  Cambridge  undergraduates  are  Dr  Westoott 
and  Mr  H.  M.  Gwatldn.  Tbe  latter  is  the  lecturer  in  Church  Histoiy  at 
St  John's  College. 

Commonwealth :  May  i,  1890. 

Trinitv  CoUege,  Cambridge,  which  boasts  itself  the  greatest  college  fa 
the  worla,  has,  partly  on  account  of  its  greatness,  less  espr^  de  corps  than 
any  college  in  the  world,  except  perhaps  the  College  of  Heralds.  The 
annual  gatherings  of  old  Trinity  men  by  relays,  devised  by  the  present 
Master,  have  done  something  to  knit  the  bonds  of  fellowship,  and  more  may 
be  expected  fix)m  the  new  College  Magazine,  the  Trident,  which  follows 
the  lines  of  that  admirably  edited  organ  of  St  John's  College,  the  Ea^. 
From  tiie  first  number  we  cull  a  delightfiQ  anecdote  of  Dr  Whewell.  An 
midergraduate  invited  to  the  Lodge  was  met  at  the  door  by  the  Master  with 
a  d^  in  his  mouth.  <*  Do  you  mean,  sir,  deliberatdy  to  insult  me,  or  are 
yon  lost  to  all  sense  of  decency  ? "  thundered  WhewdL  "Please,  Master," 
was  the  answer,  "I'm  lost  to  all  sense  of  decency." 

youmal  of  Education :  April  1890. 


University  Examinations,  1890. 
Mathematical  Tripos  Part  L 


Wranglers. 

Senior  Optimes. 

Junior  CptimeSm 
__ /House 
7*\PnIlan 

Bennett  (senior) 

49    Pearce 

6 

Reeves 

S3    Cuthberston 
68    Cassell 

8 

75    Chapman 

(Dobbs 

9 

tWilb 
iFinn 
\  Owen,  0.  W. 

12 

27 

Partn. 

Class  I, 

Class  IL 

Class  III. 

Db  Buistall  (</fv.  I) 

Ds  Brown,  W.  (div.  2) 
Ds  Cooke  (div.  3) 

Classical  Trifos  Part  I. 

1st  Class. 

^nd  Class, 

Zrd  Class, 

Division  1, 

Division!, 

Division  i. 

Summers 

Kershaw,  J. 
Serjeant 

Smallpeice 

Drvisionz. 

Division  2. 

Division  2. 

Nirlrh'n 

WaUer 

Benthall,  W.  L. 

Division  3. 

Division  i^ 

Division  I. 

Blackett 

Constantine 

Hayes 
Tctley 

Willson 

PartlL 

1st  Class, 

2nd  Class, 

ird  Class. 

DsSikes 

Ds  Spragg 
Ds  Stout 

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a    Brown,  W.J. 


ix/  Class. 


Law  Taipos  Part  I. 

Class  II. 

17    Fernando 

Part  n. 

Historical  Tripos. 

2nd  Class. 
Ds  Brown,  P.  H. 
Ds  Harbotde 
Harlock 


33 

39 


Class  III. 
Fearon 
Frossard 


fj    Ds  Humphries,  S. 


yd  Class. 
HeUyer 
Thompson,  H» 


MEDIE7AL  AND  MODERN  LANGUAGES  TRIF0S» 
Class  II.     Dennis 


Moral  Sciences  Tripos  Part  L 

Class  I,  Class  III. 

Gilson  {div.  2)  Jones,  W.  0» 


Natural  Sciences  Tripos  Part  I. 

Class  /•  Class  II.  Class  III. 

Cuff 

Mac  Bride 
Whipple 


Baker 

Bumsted 

Theobald 


Hewitt  (Chemistry) 
Lehfeldt  {Physics) 
Woods  {Geology) 


1st  Class. 
Neal 


ij^  Class. 

DsGreennp 
Ds  Smith,  H. 


Partn. 

Mmidella 
Price,  J. 
Shaw 

Theological  Tripos  Part  I. 

2nd  Class. 
DsPahner 

Robertson,  A.  J. 

Partn. 
2nd  Class 

jEgrotaim 
Bamber 


BuchanaUi 


^rd  Class^ 
Bach 
Harper 

^rd  Class.. 


Medical  Examinations,  Easter  Term  .iSgo. 


Chemistiy  and  Physics. 
EUmmtaay  Biology. 


First  M.B. 

Ds  Bartram 

Crodson,  F.  A. 
Jackson,  T.  L. 

Ds  Bartram 

ElUott,  W.  R. 
Ds  Hill,  A. 

Jackson,  T.  L. 
ones,  H.  G.  T. 


Kingsford 
Villy 


Kingsford 
Mayor 
Ds  Moore 
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Anatomy y  etc. 

Surgery  etc. 
Medicine  etc. 


Second  M3. 

Ds  Lambert 
Ds  Langmore 

Third  M.B. 

Burton,  F.  W. 
Ds  Cowell 

Bindloss 


Ds  Lewis,  C.  £.  K. 


Ds  Grabham 

Ds  Simmons,  W.  W. 

Bnrton,  F.  W. 


Adicitted  to  the  Degrees  of  M.B.  Ain>  B.C. 
Eliot  Cm^en 


CoT.T.KGE  Examinations, 

1890. 

Prizemen. 

Mathematics. 

ird  Year. 

2nd  Year. 

1st  Year. 

1st  Class  (Dec.  1889). 

1st  Class. 

1st  Class. 

Bennett,  G.  T. 

Pickford 

Hough 

Reeves 

Maw 

ChevaUer,  R.  C. 

Dobbs 

Robertson,  C. 

Pocklington 

:  Alexander 
1  Finn 
Wills 

Blomfidd 

Morton 

(Gedye 
[Speight 

Franks 
Rosenberg 

Owen,  0.  W. 

Ayers 

Le  Sueur 
i  Smfth,  R.  T. 

ClASSICS. 

Zrd  Year. 

2nd  Year. 

1st  Year. 

1st  Class. 

1st  Class. 

1st  Class. 

Radford 

Div.  I.    Summers 

Div.  I.     Stone 

Nicklin 

Glover,  T.  R. 

Div.  II.  King,  H.  A. 

TeUey 

Lupton 

Div.  III.  Kent 

Constantino 

Haslett 

Hooton 

Blackett 

Wynne  Willson 

Natural  Sciences. 

Candidates  for  Part  IL 

Candidates  for  Part  I. 

1st  Class, 

2nd  Year. 

\st  Year. 

Hewitt 

1st  Class. 

Lehfeldt 

Baker 

Cuflf 
Mac  Bride 

• 

Whipple 
Theology. 

^rd  Year. 

2nd  Year. 

1st  Year. 

1st  Class. 

1st  Class. 

1st  Class. 

Neal 

Adeney 
Lees,  H.  C. 

DsPahner 

Moral  Sciences. 

3ni  Year^ 

2nd  Year. 

1st  Year. 

1st  Class. 

Edwards,  E. 

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Reading. 

Hebrew. 

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yrdyear.   |      ^^ 

^^    "      \       Long 

Sir  John  Herschel. 

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College  Essay  Prizes. 

First  Year.                                  Second  Year. 

Brown,  W.  L.                               Glover,  T.  R. 

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Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club. 

The  Pairs  were  rowed  at  the  end  of  last  term,  there  were 
three  entries : — 

A.  G.  Cooke  W.  Harris  A.  T.  Robertson 

Stroke  G.  P.  Davys        Stroke  W.  E.  Forater       Stroke  J.  A.  Cameron 

Harris  and  Forster  (2nd  station)  won  a  very  good  race  by 
about  half-a-length  from  Cooke  and  Davys, 

We  began  the  term  with  six  of  last  year's  First  boat  up,  but 
two  of  them  rowed  in  the  Second  boat  this  year.  There  were 
also  several  Second  boat  men  and  some  good  new  men,  so  that 
the  task  of  making  up  the  crews  was  by  no  means  an  easy  one. 

The  First  boat  was  coached  by  H.  W.  Smyth  (Third  Trinity), 
and,  although  at  the  beginning  of  the  term  it  promised  well, 
it  did  not  come  on  much  till  a  couple  of  weeks  before  the 
races.  A  general  change  of  places  was  then  made,  and  from 
that  time  the  boat  improved  rapidly  and  developed  into  a  fairly 
fast  boat. 

The  Second  boat  was  coached  by  various  members  of  the 
First  boat.  The  men  got  well  together,  but  did  not  seem  to 
work  too  hard  or  back  stroke  up  well. 

The  crews  were : — 

First  Boat.  Second  Boat. 


St.  Ids. 

Bow  A.  G.  Cooke 10  10 

2  S.  B.  Reid 11  4 

3  A.  T.  Wallis II  3j 

4  J.  A.  Cameron  . . . .  11  13 

5  A.  S.  Roberts  ....  13  o 

6  H.E.H.Coombes..  11  loj 

7  P.  R  Shaw    10  3 

Stroke G.V.Ikiyys Ii  6 

CoxH.E.  Mason 8  10 


St.  Ids. 

^<n0  B.  R.  Wills 9  12 

2  F.  M.  Smith    10  2I 

3  C.C.Waller  10  13! 

4  W.  E.  Forster 10  11 

5  R.  H.  Stacey 12  4 

6  B.  Long  12  o 

7  C.  E.  Ray    11  3 

Stroked.  H.  Forster 10  9 

C(?;c  H.  A.  King 8  13 


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First  Boat. 
^<nEf— Has  improTttd  since  last  year :  is  rowing  much  langer«  bat  is  inclined 

to  miss  the  beginning. 
7W— Rows  hard,  and  has  improved  mnch  dming  the  tenn;  wants  more 

steadiness  and  regularity,  which  ought  to  come  with  more  experience. 
TAnM— Strong  and  worJcs  hard,  but  is  slow  with  the  hands  and  unsteady 

forward,  and  so  misses  the  beginning. 
/T'^ur— Works  hard  and  uses  his  legs  well,  but  is  apt  to  get  slow  with  the 

hands  and  swing  short. 
^iW— Much  improved,  rowing  his  blade  through  the  water  much  better^ 

but  should  swing  his  shoulders  more  back  at  the  finish  and  be  smazter 

with  the  hands. 
Six— Very  long  and  steady,  and  gets  a  good  grip  at  the  beginning  of  the 

stroke.    Rather  clumsy  with  the  finish. 
Seven^A  hard  shover,  in  spite  of  being  handicapped  by  his  light  wei|^t 

and  a  bad  wrist. 
Stroke-^Has  a  rather  peculiar  style,  but  swings  veiy  long,  sslides  wdl»  and 

strokes  well  and  pluckily. 
Ci?^— Steers  well|  but  wants  more  voice.  / 

Sec(md  Boat.  m 

^^w— Rather  limp  and  unsteady  in  the  swing,  but  rows  hard  for  his  wdg. 
2)v0— Rows  neatly,  but  wants  more  dash  and  leg-drive. 
Three— l^Qe&  not  swing  and  slide  together,  and  does  not  always  get  in  behind 

the  rigger,  but  is  a  willing  worker. 
/^<wr— Unsteady  forward,  and  so  does  not  always  keep  time.    Rows  hard, 

though  sometimes  too  much  with  the  arms. 
Five—GeXs  a  good  shove  on  at  the  beginning,  but  is  short  at  the  finish  and 

slow  with  the  hands. 
iStv— Rather  unsteady  forward  and  inclined  to  wash  out,  but  works  hard 

and  lasts  well. 
5lnvyf— Finishes  his  slide  before  his  swing,  and  so  is  inclined  to  be  late,  but 

keeps  it  going  well. 
Stroke— Vfoxks  too  hard,  but  keeps  the  men  going  well  behind  him. 
Cov—Steers  a.  good  course  and  can  shout  weU. 

On  the  first  night,  June  6,  the  First  boat  went  very  well,  and 
caught  Jesus  immediately  after  rounding  Grassy.  The  Second 
boat  had  rather  a  bad  start ;  they  gained  a  good  deal  on  Christ* s, 
but  were  not  able  to  catch  them. 

On  the  second  night  the  First  boat  did  not  go  so  well; 
although  they  gained  a  little  at  first  on  Cains,  they  did  not  keep 
it  going.  The  Second  boat  did  not  start  at  all  well,  and  did 
not  gain  so  much  on  Christ's  as  the  night  before. 

On  the  third  night  the  First  boat  rowed  very  well  up  to  the 
Willows,  after  which  they  fell  off  a  little  and  Emmanuel  came 
up  very  fast.  At  the  Railway  Bridge  they  were  within  a  few 
feet,  and  overlapped  once  or  twice  between  the  Bridge  and  the 
Pike  and  Eel ;  here  the  cox  tried  to  wash  them  ofif,  and  ran  the 
boat  into  the  bank,  where  it  was  bumped.  We  had  got  within 
a  length  of  Caius,  but  could  not  get  any  closer.  The  Second 
boat  rowed  over  the  third  time  and  did  not  gain  much  on 
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On  the  last  night  the  First  boat  used  the  Second  boat  ship, 
as  the  new  one  was  broken  the  night  before,  and  the  Second 
boat  borrowed  one  from  Christ's.  The  First  boat  fell  rather 
easily  to  Hall  II  about  the  middle  of  the  Long  Reach,  and  the 
Second  boat  were  bumped  by  Corpus  some  distance  higher  up. 
The  Second  boat  rowed  extremely  pluckily. 

Cricket  Club. 

We  have  not  had  a  very  successful  season  this  year,  our 
record  being,  won  i,  lost  5,  drawn  9.  We  have  been  most 
unfortunate  in  losing  the  toss  in  nearly  eveiy  match,  so  that, 
when  the  men  go  in  to  bat,  they  are  tired  after  fielding.  When 
we  did  win  the  toss  we  generally  made  a  good  score,  as  there 
is  plenty  of  batting  in  the  team.  There  is  a  great  lack  of  good 
bowling  this  season.  The  fielding  of  the  team  is,  on  the  whole, 
fair;  but  there  are  some  members  who  prefer  trying  to  field 
with  their  shins  instead  of  with  their  hands.  This  is,  of  course, 
a  fatal  thing  to  do,  and  besides  causes  themselves  considerable 
jxain  for  some  time. 

»'  Of  last  year's  team  there  are — H.  Roughton,  J.  H.  C.  Fegan, 
E.  A.  Chambers,  and  H.  Wilcox;  while  those  who  have  got 
their  colours  this  year  are — ^J.  Sanger,  A.  E.  Elliott,  C.  H. 
Tovey,  J.  Bairstow,  W.  L.  Laming,  F.  J.  NichoUs,  and  T.  L. 
Jackson. 

77t$  Eleven. 
H.  Roughi<m'-'H3^  not  been  able  to  play  much  this  season  owing  to  work, 

bnt  is  Tery  usefol  when  he  does  play.    He  is  a  steady  bat  with  great 

hitting-powezs,  but  has  gone  off  in  bowling  since  last  year.     A  good 

field. 
y.  H.  C.  Fegan^QrooA  firee  bat  with  great  hitting-powers,  but  rather  lacks 

defence ;  capital  field  any^vhere. 

E.  A,  Chambers^Good  bowler  on  his  day,  fair  bat,  and  poor  field. 

H,  Wilcox^ Good  fast  bowler  and  bad  field;  has  taken  the  largest  number 

of  wickets. 
y.  Sanger-'Csipital  bat  and  fair  wicket-keeper ;  has  veiy  good  defence,  and 

can  hit  when  occasion  requires. 
A,  E.  EUiott^Good  bat  with  very  stubborn  defence ;  has  greatly  improved 

in  style. 

F.  y.  Nickolls— Good  bat  and  bowler,  has  been  rather  unfortunate  for  the 

College ;  splendid  field. 
C.  If,  Tavey^Kas  improved  wonderfully  as  a  bat,  and  proved  successful  as 

a  slow  bowler ;  good  field. 
JV,  C.  Laming^Good  steady  bat ;  has  much  to  learn  in  the  field. 
y.  Bairstem— Good  change  bowler,  but  tires  rather  easily ;  poor  field. 
T.  L,  yacJkson—Faii  bat  and  field,  can  also  keep  wicket. 

Afatches. 
May  3.    The  first  College  match  was  played  against  the  Hawks.    Having 
won  the  toss,  the  Hawks  batted  first,  and  made  256,  St  John's  replying  with 
1 10  for  3  wickets  (Fegan  31  not  out,  Elliott  28  not  out). 

May  5.    We  were  to  have  played  Corpus,  but  they  scratched. 
May  6.    Caius  won  the  toss  and  made  295  for  5  wickets,  and  then 
declared  their  innings  closed.    St  John's  made  79  for  3  wickets  (Elliott  35). 


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May  7  and  8.  Selwyn  beat  us  by  an  innings  and  15  runs.  Selwyn  went 
in  first  and  made  322.  St  John's,  ist  innings,  70  (Nicholls  33) ;  2nd  innings, 
137  (Laming  40,  Elliott  32).  Tovey  took  4  wickets  for  12  runs  at  the  close 
of  the  innings. 

May  9.  Christ's  went  in  first  and  scored  iii  for  4  wickets,  when  play 
was  stopped  by  rain. 

May  12.  Clare  won  the  toss,  and  batted  first,  scoring  220  fpr  7  wickets, 
and  then  declared  their  innings  closed.    St  John's  made  42  for  3  wickets. 

May  13.  Peterhouse  went  in  first  and  made  171.  St  John's  were  aU 
out  for  52. 

May  14.  St  John's  won  the  toss  for  the  first  time  this  season,  and  scored 
185  for  7  wickets  (Nicholls  53,  Sanger  42,  Elliott  32).  Queens'  were  all 
out  for  132,  Wilcox  taking  7  wickets  for  46  runs. 

May  15  and  16.  Pembroke  beat  us  by  an  inning  and  13  runs.  St 
John's  scored,  ist  innings,  45 ;  2nd  innings,  109  (of  whioi  Fegan  and  Nicholls 
each  made  21). 

May  19  €ind  20.  Jesus  won  the  toss,  and  batted  first,  scoring  516  runs* 
St  John's  scored  142  (Roughton  38,  NichoUs  37)  in  the  ist  innings,  and 
in  the  2nd  innings  127  (Roughton  47). 

May  21.  A  return  match  played  with  Cains  on  their  Ghround.  Caius 
won  the  toss,  and  made  187.    St  John's  were  all  out  for  119  (King  35). 

May  22.  St  John's  were  again  fortunate  enough  to  win  the  toss,  and 
scored  257  (Elliott  93,  Fegan  48).    Trinity  Hall  scored  72  for  3  wickets. 

May  23  and  24.  Trinity  brought  a  strong  team  against  us.  Batting 
first,  mey  scored  323.  St  John's  made  170  in  the  ist  innings  (Sanger  33, 
Tovey  20,  Fegan  20) ;  2nd  umings,  we  scored  156  for  4  wickets  (Elliott  56, 
Sanger  52). 

May  26.  St  Bartholomew's  Hospital  sent  dbwn  a  team  to  play  against 
us.  We  were  fortunate  enough  to  wm  the  toss,  and  scored  271  for  7  wickets, 
and  then  declared  our  innings  closed  (Sanger  58,  Fegan  54,  Chambers  43). 
St  Bartholomew's  Hospital  made  109  for  4  wickets. 

May  28  and  29.  Emmanuel  won  the  toss  and  made  176.  We  went  in 
and  scored  351  (Tovey  98,  Sanger  89,  Roughton  56,  Wilcox  48).  Emmanuel 
in  their  2nd  innings  made  53  for  3  wickets. 

May  31.  Magdalene  won  the  toss  and  made  224.  St  John's  were  then 
left  with  an  hour  to  bat,  and  scored  128  for  i  wicket  (Fegan  54  not  out, 
Tovey  36,  Roughton  22  not  out). 

June  2.  The  Crusaders  brought  a  very  strong  team  against  us,  and  scored 
434  (Crawford  132,  Gay  83,  Fryer  55).    St  John's  did  not  bat. 

Baiting  Averages^ 

No.  of          Host  in          No.  of        Timea 
Name.                            runs.           Innings.       Innings.      not  out.  Average. 
.  Sanger ^ 307    .........    89    zo    «.  x  34.x 


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.Roaghton a^x    56    zt    2^ 27.8 

A.  E.  Elliott  386    9t    17    1  24.a 

C.  H.  Tovey    273    98    x6    2   19.7 

J.H.C.  Fegan  245    54    16    2  17.7 

F.J.  Nicholls Z7Q    53    X3    X   14.11 

E.A.Chambers zoo    43    zo    2   Z3.4 

W.  C.  Laming  ZS4    40    z6    2   Z3.2 

H.Wilcox  izz    48    xz    ...I I     ......    XX. X 

T.L.  Jackson  95    26    X3    a   8.7 

J.  Bairstow 43    20 9    .........  z   5.3 

Bowling  Averages, 

Runs.  Wickets.  Avarage. 

C.H.  Tovey .-. 497    a?  i8.iz 

H.Wilcox  808    36  22.Z6 

J.  Bairstow 374    14  26 

H.  Roughton 281    10  28.3 

E.  A.  Cnambcrs 398    Z4  28.0 

F.J.  NichoUs 613    z8  34.x 


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Association  Football  Club. 

At  a  meeting  held  on  Tuesday,  June  3,  the  following  officers 
were  elected  for  the  season  1890-91 : — 

Captain-'C.  H.  Tovey.  Secreiary—'D,  Stephens. 

Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

President^VT.  F.  Smith  M.A.  Captain^V,  F.  Barton.  Committee^ 
H.  Pallan,  H.  S.  Willcocks.  Hon.  Secretary— VJ,  L.  Benthall.  Tournament 
Secretary—St  J.  B.  Wynne-Willson.    Hon,  Treasurer-^E.  A.  Hensley. 

The  season  commenced  somewhat  ominously  with  the  unex- 
pected absence  of  the  Captain  elect  and  Secretary,  in  consequence 
of  which  a  General  Meeting  was  called  after  some  delay,  and  the 
Committee  re-formed  as  above. 

We  can  hardly  complain  this  year  of  the  weather,  which 
has  prevented  but  few  matches  from  being  played.  The  various 
Triposes  and  Examinations  have  done  more  havoc  to  our  results 
than  all  the  rain  of  the  season.  During  the  latter  part  of  the 
term  we  hardly  once  had  a  full  team  in-  the  field.  However, 
the  number  of  successes  is  fairly  satisfactory,  all  things  con- 
sidered. From  the  following  list  it  will  be  seen  that  we  have 
won  eleven  matches  and  lost  six.  Besides  these  our  Second 
Six  beat  Ridley  Hall  by  3  rubbers  to  i,  and  the  First  Six  were 
defeated  by  the  Second  (receiving  15)  by  3  rubbers  to  6. 

Apn'i  28 — We  beat  the  Mayflies  on  our  own  ground  by 
6  to  3. 

April  29 — Peterhouse  were  beaten  ou  our  ground  by  6  to  3. 

April  30 — ^We  lost  against  Emmanuel,  one  of  our  pairs  not 
gaining  a  single  rubber.     Score,  4  to  5. 

May  3 — We  gained  an  easy  victory  over  a  weak  team  of 
King's  by  9  to  love. 

May  5 — ^Jesus  lost  to  us,  owing  to  the  absence  of  their  best 
pair.     Score,  6  to  3. 

May  6 — We  defeated  Clare  on  our  gronnd  by  7  rubbers  to  2. 

May  7 — An  unexpected  victory  for  us,  v.  Trinity,  by  5  to  4. 
Chevalier  and  PuUan  did  well  to  win  the  deciding  rubber. 

May  1 2 — Our  second  defeat,  on  Caius  ground.  Again  one 
of  our  pairs  failed  to  score.     Rubbers,  4  to  5. 

Maj/  14 — We  beat  Corpus  on  their  ground  by  7  to  2,  much 
to  their  disappointment. 

May  15 — ^The  redoubtable  Aliens  of  Trinity  Hall,  though 
separated,  proved  too  strong  for  us ;  we  lost  this  match  by  2 
to  7.  This  was  the  iirst  time  Lees  played  for  us  after  his 
illness. 

May  17 — Again  we  beat  the  Mayflies  by  6  to  3. 

May  20 — The  much-dreaded  Tripos  began  its  work.  We 
lost  against  Pembroke,  who  scored  3  rubbers  to  our  6 ;  and  on 

May  2 1 — ^Against  Trinity  (return)  by  4  to  5.  These  two  last 
matches  were  on  our  opponents*  ground^ 

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May  22 — Christ's  Six,  who  were  reputed  strong,  were  de- 
feated by  us.     Score,  3  rubbers  to  6. 

May  28 — Clare  also  fell  a  prey  to  us,  though  they  scored 
4  rubbers  to  5,  thanks  to  the  slack  play  of  Benthall  and  Barton, 
who  only  scored  one  rubber. 

May  30 — ^The  Shelford  match,  which  is  alwa3rs  a  pleasure 
to  play,  was  lost  on  the  Shelford  ground.  One  of  the  rubbers 
was  resigned  by  us  in  our  opponents'  favour,  as  we  were  anxious 
to  get  back  before  dark,  and  before  supper-time. 

May  31 — The  season  was  well  concluded  by  a  brilliant  victory 
over  Selwyn,  who  rejoiced  in  having  been  the  only  team  who 
had  beaten  Pembroke.    Score,  8  rubbers  to  i. 

As  many  as  seven  matches  were  scratched. 

The  College  Ties  are  practically  ended.  There  only  remains 
the  Final  for  the  Newbery  Challenge  Cup  between  Benthall 
and  Marshall.  The  Open  Singles  were  won  by  W.  L.  Benthall 
(first  prize)  and  H.  T.  Marshall  (second  prize).  The  Doubles 
fell  to  W.  L.  Benthall  and  H.  T.  Marshall.  The  latter  defeated 
C.  P.  Way  in  the  Final  round  of  the  Handicap  Singles. 

In  the  'Varsity  Tournament,  P.  F.  Barton  and  W.  L.  Benthall 
unfortunately  drew  against  Curteis  and  Pedley  in  the  Open 
Doubles,  and  succumbed  in  the  first  round.  Benthall  survived 
the  first  round  of  the  Singles,  but  was  defeated  in  the  next  by 
Campbell  of  the  Hall  (i  set  to  2). 

After  the  Shelford  match  the  following  received  their  colours  : 
E.  A.  Hensley,  B.  H.  Lees,  H.  Pullan,  St  J.  B.  Wynne-Willson. 
Barton  and  Benthall  had  obtained  them  last  year. 

A  few  remarks  on  the  individual  play  of  the  Six  will  be 
interesting  and  instructive. 

P,  F.  Barton—Fro^ed  an  exceUent  Captain,  though  circumstances  made  his 
post  no  sinecure.  Plays  a  steady  and  strong  game,  but  lacks  staying 
power.  Has  a  hard  serve,  but  does  not  always  dioose  to  use  it.  Kills 
nigh  v<iUeys  well,  especially  the  returns  from  his  partner's  service. 

W,  L.  JBenthall^Csji  play  when  he  wishes,  and  is  very  brilliant  at  times, 
but  unaccountably  slack  at  otheis.  Is  quite  above  the  average  of  the 
rest  of  the  team,  but  is  easily  demondized  by  weak  opponents. 

E,  A.  jffgnsUy^Hsis  a  puzzling  service  and  lobs  weU.  His  returns  are  too 
high  and  sometimes  too  hard.  Has  played  systematically  and  well,  bnt 
his  peculiar  style  makes  much  further  improvement  unlikely. 

JB.  H.  Lges—Has  a  smashing  serve,  when  it  comes  off,  and  plays  the  right 
game,  but  is  hardly  up  to  his  last  year's  form  owing  to  Ulness. 

jy.  Pullan— -Hsis  improved  considerably  and  is  very  energetic.  Hits  much 
too  hard,  and  is  rather  inclined  to  poach. 

Si  y.  B,  Wyruu^  Wilson— Bjttxans  and  voUeys  weU,  but  stands  rather  too 
close  to  the  net  at  times.    Has  made  a  useful  pair  with  Hensley. 

Speaking  generally,  a  considerable  amount  of  refreshing 
keenness  has  been  shewn  in  the  Tennis  this  year,  which  accounts 
for  the  fairly  creditable  results  of  the  matches ;  but  in  form  the 
team  was  hardly  up  to  the  average  of  previous  years.  It  should 
be  remembered  that,  in  Doubles,  it  is  no  use  to  return  a  second 
serve  hard  and  high.  In  fact,  hard  hitting  has  been  a  failing 
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P.  F.  Barton  and  W.  L.  Benthall,  who  represent  St  John's 
this  year  in  the  Inter-collegiate  Cup  Ties,  have  been  fortunate 
enough  to  reach  the  Final.  They  have  beaten  Clare  and 
Emmanuel,  and  now  play  Pembroke,  the  winners  of  which  will 
play  Trinity,  the  holders  of  the  Cup. 

Our  thanks  are  due  to  Mr  Scott,  for  his  kind  efforts  in 
obtaining  the  Newbery  Challenge  Cup  for  the  Tennis  Club 
(temporarily)  despite  some  opposition. 

Wynne-Willson  has  been  elected  Captain  of  the  Tennis  Team 
in  the  Long. 

Willcocks,  Dadina,  Chevalier  (who  unfortunately  maimed 
himself  in  a  bicycle  ride  about  the  middle  of  the  season).  Foxley, 
Reeves,  Hessey,  and  Marshall  have  also  played  in  matches. 

Our  prospects  for  next  year  are  fair,  if  Benthall,  Hensley, 
and  Wynne-Willson  will  still  play,  as  others  are  likely  to 
improve. 

The  rules  relative  to  the  Newbery  Challenge  Cup  can  be 
seen  in  the  December  Number  1889  of  the  Eagk^  and,  as  it  is 
hoped  this  is  in  the  hands  of  most  members  of  the  Tennis 
Club,  it  is  superfluous  to  repeat  them  here. 


Lacrossb  Club. 

At  a  general  meeting  of  the  Club,  held  on  Saturday,  May  31, 
the  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  :— 

•     Captain—^.  Lupton ;   Secretary  and  Treasurer-^Y,  Villy ;   Committee-^ 
T.  E.  Sandall,  J.  H.  Reeves,  H.  C.  Lees. 

Owing  to  the  very  limited  number  of  colours  given  last  year, 
only  three  will  be  up  in  October,  but  as  the  Club  has  lately 
been  on  the  increase  and  more  members  may  be  expected  to 
join  next  term,  we  hope  to  have  a  team  that  will  be  able  to 
hold  its  own. 

Two  Johnians,  Hodson  and  Villy,  obtained  their  University 
caps  last  term. 


4TH  (Camb.  Univ.)  Vol.  Batt:  The  Suffolk  Regiment. 

We  have  to  congratulate  Captain  A.  Hill  on  his  success 
at  Wellington  Barracks.  Corporal  Nunns  has  been  shooting 
with  great  steadiness  and  success  during  the  term.  His  place 
in  the  Eight  is  assured,  and  we  nourish  great  hope  of  his 
performance  at  Bisley.  Private  Cordeaux  won  the  Company 
Cup  for  the  Term. 

The  Corps  sent  a  detachment  into  Camp  at  Warley  for  the 
week  before  the  Boat  Race.  If  not  the  largest  it  was  the  best 
drilled  detachment  ever  sent  out  by  the  Corps.  It  was  specially 
complimented  for  its  smartness  by  Col.  Wilson  of  the 
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The  Corps  has  lost  the  services  of  Sergeant-Major  Denmaii 
and  we  have  now  a  new  Sergeant-Instructor  from  the  Bedford- 
shire Regiment. 

At  the  end  of  last  term  the  Finance  Committee  decided  to 
purchase  loo  great  coats.  But  before  the  purchase  was 
completed  the  Government  were  defeated  on  the  question  of 
Volunteer  Equipment,  and  our  Financiers  decided  to  draw  the 
purse  strings  again  until  we  saw  what  share  of  the  national 
grant  we  might  receive.  Authorities  differ  as  to  what 
Mr  Stanhope  promised  us ;  half  made  coats  according  to  the 
Daily  News,  half  worn  coats  according'  to  the  Standard. 
Breachblocks  and  Blank  Cartridge  !  what  princely  generosity ! 

The  Corps  was  inspected  on  May  3  by  Colonel  Leach  C.B., 
the  Assistant  Adjutant  General  at  Colchester.  The  muster 
was  a  good  one,  and  the  new  attack  was  practised  with  success. 
The  Inspection  Dinner  was  again  held  in  our  Combination 
Room  by  the  kindness  of  the  Fellows. 

It  may  be  mentioned  as  a  singular  fact,  unique  we  believe 
in  its  history,  that  B  Company  has  at  the  present  time  a 
Captain  but  no  Subalterns  or  Sergeants, 


Debating  Society. 
Easter  Term, 

President'-^.  J.  Brown  (in  place  of  H.  J.  Spenser,  B.A.  resigned), 
Vice-President^ Pl,  P.  Bender.  Treasurer^G,  D.  Kempt.  Secretary-^ 
G.  H.  R.  Garcia.     Committee— T,  R.  Glover,  W.  B.  Morton, 

During  the  term  six  meetings  for  debate  have  been  held, 
and  the  average  attendance  has  been  abnormally  high  for  the 
Easter  Term.  The  term  would  have  been  an  uneventful  one,  but 
for  the  interest  attaching  to  a  bye-election  for  the  office  of 
President,  which  was  contested  by  W.  J.  Brown  and  H.  E. 
Mason.  The  action  of  the  Treasurer  and  Secretary  in  this 
connexion  was  somewhat  violently  attacked,  and  a  Committee 
of  the  whole  House  was  convened  to  sit  upon  them.  The  only 
tangible  outcome  of  the  whole  proceeding  was  to  stimulate  the 
flagging  energies  of  the  College  with  regard  to  attendance 
at  the  Society's  meetings. 

The  debates  were  as  under : 

April  26 — **That  this  House  approves  of  the  Home  Secretary's 
Action  in  the  recent  Crewe  Murder  Case."  Proposed  by 
E.  W.  Mac  Bride.  Opposed  by  A.  J.  Pitkin.  Majority  in 
favour  of  the  motion  12. 

May  3 — "  That  the  habitual  use  of  tobacco  is  a  dangerous 
and  unhealthy  practice  and  therefore  to  be  condemned." 
Proposed  by  C.  P.  Way.  Opposed  by  G.  H.  R.  Garcia* 
Majority  against  the  motion  4. 


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May  10 — "That  this  House  would  welcome  a  system 
of  Stake-regulated  Infanticide."  Proposed  by  T.  Nicklin, 
Opposed  by  A.  S.  Tetley.     Majority  against  the  motion  17. 

May  17 — "That  this  House  would  approve  of  the  adoption 
of  some  system  of  Conscription  in  Great  Britain."  Proposed 
by  F.  G.  Given-Wilson.  Opposed  by  F.  Dewsbury.  Majority 
against  the  motion  8. 

May  24 — "  That  this  House  condemns  The  Licensed  Wollereri 
Gazeiter  Proposed  by  W.  R.  Le  Sueur.  Opposed  by  R.  H. 
Forster.     Majority  against  the  motion  31. 

May  31 — ''That  this  House  regrets  that  the  practice  of 
duelling  has  fallen  into  abeyance." — Proposed  by  C.  A.  M. 
Pond  B.A.  Opposed  by  H.  Drake.  Majority  against  the 
motion  I. 

The  average  attendance  has  been  35. 


Musical  Society. 

We  are  glad  to  be  able  to  announce  that  the  funds  of  this 
Society  are  in  a  much  more  flourishing  condition,  and  we  hope 
that  early  next  term  we  shall  be  able  to  pay  off  the  small 
amount  which  we  now  owe.  During  the  earlier  part  of  the 
term,  the  Society  gave  a  concert  in  Toynbee  Hall,  which  was 
a  great  success  and  highly  appreciated  by  an  audience  which 
chiefly  consisted  of  "  Dockers." 

The  following  were  the  officers  during  the  May  Term : 
President^Dt  Sandys.    Treasurer —^cw  A.  J.  Stevens  M. A.    Secretary^^ 
F.   W.  Carnegy.     Librarian^H.   Collison.      CommUtee^JL,  A.  Uensley, 
A.  W.  Dennis,  F.  M.  Smith,  A.  B.  F.  Cole. 

The  Society  gave  their  May  concert  on  June  9  in  the 
Guildhall.  Despite  the  large  number  of  other  attractions  the 
ball  was  quite  full.  The  programme  commenced  with  a 
"Pastorale"  by  C.  H.  Lloyd,  The  rosy  dawn,  finely  rendered 
by  the  chorus,  consisting  of  the  members  of  the  Society  and 
the  choir-bovs,  and  accompanied  on  the  organ  by  Mr  F. 
Dewberry.  This  was  followed  by  a  song,  //  was  a  lover  and  his 
/ass,  by  Dora  Bright,  admirably  sung  by  Miss  H.  W.  Mears, 
R.A.M.  The  next  item  was  Mozart's  Pianoforte  Concerto  in  D 
xninor.  This  proved  to  be  a  musical  treat,  the  orchestra, 
which  consisted  of  the  instrumentalists  of  the  Society,  supple- 
mented by  Messrs  Symes  of  Trinity  and  Fenton  of  Caius  and 
a  few  professionals,  played  their  part  with  evident  enjoyment, 
and  shewed  from  their  dash  and  "go"  what  great  pains  they 
and  Dr  Garrett  had  taken  in  the  rehearsals.  The  pianoforte  part 
was  played  by  the  Rev  C.  J.  E.  Smith,  an  old  Johnian  and 
sometime  President  of  the  C.  U.  M.  S.  Of  Mr  Smith's  playing 
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the  absence  of  the  modem  tendency  to  "race"  the  time  of  tlie 
music.  Next  came  The  willow  song  by  Sir  Arthur  SuUi 
exquisitely  sung  by  Miss  A.  M.  Child,  R.A.M.,  who  was 
enthusiastically  encored.  The  last  item  .was  the  Cantata 
St  John^s  Eve  by  F.  H.  Cowen.  This  is  based  on  the  legend 
connected  with  the  observance  of  the  customs  of  St  John's  £ve 
by  young  maidens  who  wished  to  discover  their  future  husbands. 
It  is  divided  into  three  scenes.  The  first  opens  with  a  chorus 
which  is  melodious  but  somewhat  too  long,  followed  by  a 
complicated  and  difficult  duet  between  the  trebles  and  altos, 
sung  with  great  precision.  The  scena  Fou^  Susan,  when  the 
midnight  bell  was  well  sung  by  Miss  Child,  who  has  a  fine 
voice  and  a  good  style.  Robert's  very  trying  softg,  That  part 
will  I  play,  which  succeeds  was  very  spiritedly  sung  by  F.  W. 
Camegy.  Next  comes  the  chorus.  Ho  /  good  saint  John  wai 
a  shining  light,  for  men's  voices  only,  which  was  charming  in 
every  way ;  specially  noticeable  is  the  curious  eflfect  of  raHtn- 
tandos  broken  in  upon  by  the  orchestra  d  tempo.  The  Lighting 
of  the  bonfire  which  follows  is  meant  to  be  very  expressive,  and 
no  doubt  is,  but  the  music  seems  to  be  too  stormy  and  wild 
for  the  occasion,  and  rather  calls  to  mind  a  Walpurgis  revel 
than  a  meeting  of  jovial  villagers.  The  attack  of  the  basses 
of  the  chorus  in  this  piece  was  not  up  to  the  mark,  but  after 
the  first  few  bars  all  went  well.  The  dance  which  succeeds 
is  again  too  Bacchanalian,  though  very  exhilarating.  The  Good 
Night  chorus  with  which  the  first  part  closes  was  very  delicately 
fiung,  and  was  a  pleasant  relief  from  the  uproar  of  the  previous 
chorus.  The  second  scene  opens  with  some  very  beautiful 
imitation  passages,  evidently  intended  to  represent  the  rustle 
of  the  breeze  among  the  trees  and  the  song  of  the  nightingale, 
leading  to  Nanc/s  song  O peaceful  night!  This  was  beautifully 
sung,  as  were  all  of  Nanc/s  songs,  by  Miss  Mears,  whose  voice 
is  charming,  sympathetic,  and  under  complete  control.  The 
tenor  serenade  which  follows  was  delightfully  sung  by  A.  W. 
Dennis,  whose  charming  "natural  tenor"  voice  suited  admirably 
the  simple  sweet  melody.  The  effect  of  distance  in  the  "  good 
night"  with  which  the  scene  closes,  depicting  the  villagers 
retiring,  was  very  good.  The  third  scene  opens  with  a  passage 
for  the  violins  in  fourths,  which  can  only  be  characterised 
as  hideous;  no  excuse  can  be  offered  for  such  an  utter 
transgression  of  the  laws  of  pleasant  sound;  but  the  carol 
(Margaret)  and  chorus  which  it  ushers  in  are  very  fine,  the 
organ  being  introduced  with  good  effect,  and  the  chorus 
splendidly  sung.  Both  band  and  chorus  acquitted  themselves 
well  in  the  chorus  See  on  her  breast  gleams  the  rose,  the  light  and 
shade,  the  rapid  crescendos  and  diminuendos,  being  well 
brought  out.  The  next  scena,  A  lover  if  bold,  was  sung  with 
great  vigour  by  F.  W.  Camegy.  The  duet,  really  a  serenade, 
for  soprano  arid  tenor  which  follows  would  have  been  improved 
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between  the  soprano  and  tenor,  splendidly  sung  by  Miss  Mears 
and  Mr  Dennis,  was  full  of  fire  and  enthusiasm.  The  Cantata 
ends  with  a  chorus.  New  joy  shall  be  in  cottage  poor^  which  went 
capitally  and  was  evidently  sung  and  played  con  amore.  This 
ended  a  most  successful  concert,  which  reflected  great  credit 
on  all  concerned.  The  thanks  of  the  Society  are  due  to 
Dr  Garrett,  who  conducted,  for  the  great  pains  he  has  bestowed 
on  the  rehearsals  for  the  concert,  to  the  members  of  other 
Colleges  who  have  so  kindly  assisted,  to  the  Rev  C.  J.  E.  Smith 
who  came  up  specially  to  play,  and  lastly  to  the  chorus  and 
orchestra  fpr  the  time  and  care  they  have  evidently  given  to 
the  preparation  of  the  works  performed. 

The  Theological  Society. 

During  the  past  term  the  following  papers  have  been  read 
at  the  above  Society's  meetings : 

The  Alexandrian  School,  by  W.  J.  Caldwell. 

The  Emperor  Julian,  by  W.  H.  Chambers. 

The  present  attitude  of  the  Christian  Churches  to  the  Old 
Testament^  by  H.  H.  Scullard,  B.A. 

The  Fourfold  Revelation,  by  H.  M.  Gwatkin,  Esq.,  M.A. 

The  papers  were  excellent,  and  the  discussions  which 
invariably  followed^  most  interesting. 

The  following  were  elected  officers  for  the  October  term : 

Presi(Unt'~V7.  H.  Chambers.  Hon,  Treasurer—K.  S.  Willcocks.  Bon* 
SecrOary^W.  J.  Caldwell.    Commiltee^F.  G*  Given-Wilson,  H.  C.  Lees. 

The  Reading  Room. 

The  Reading  Room  has  now  been  open  for  more  than  a 
year,  and,  to  judge  from  the  number  of  subscribers,  it  has  not 
altogether  been  a  failure.  The  Committee  would,  however, 
be  glad  to  see  the  Room  more  used  by  a  large  section  of  the 
College  who  do  not  belong  to  any  other  such  society.  The 
subscription  of  half-a-crown  a  term  does  not  seem  to  be  so 
large  as  to  be  prohibitory  to  anyone,  and,  the  more  men 
subscribe,  the  greater  will  be  the  advantages  to  be  obtained 
for  the  money. 

An  auction  of  newspapers  was  held  at  the  beginning  of  the 
term  under  the  auspices  of  Mr  Marr,  to  whose  kindness  its 
success  must  be  entirely  attributed.  Our  thanks  are  also  due 
to  Dr  Donald  MacAlister  for  another  volume  of  the  Modem 
Cyclopaedia  and  for  his  kind  present  of  Sagitiulae,  also  to  the 
Junior  Dean  for  a  copy  of  Echoes  from  the  Oxford  Magazine. 
This  was  presented  last  term,  but  too  late  to  be  acknowledged 
in  the  Eagle, 

An  album  containing  photographs  of  the  Rugby  Football 
Teams  was  also  placed  in  the  Reading  Room  last  term.  For 
this  present  we  are  indebted  to  the  Amalgamation  Committee* 


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The  Committee  for  the  current  term  is : — 

President  and  Treasurer-^VLr  Harker;  Hon,  Sec.^C,  C.  Waller;  W.  C. 
Laming,  A.  J.  Robertson. 

Balance  Sheet,  May  iS^— April  1890. 


1889.  £   J.    d. 

Subscriptions,  May  Term  18    2    6 

Papers  sold        „        „  I  13     i 

Subscriptions,  Long  Vac.  500 

Papers  sold         „        „  047 

Subscriptions,Mich.Term  13  17    6 

Papers  sold        „        ,,  194 


1890. 

Subscriptions,  Lent  Term     1 1  10    o 
Papers  sold        „      „         o  18    5f 


/S2  IS    55 


1889.  £ 

Cleaning,  May  Term ....  2 

Newspapers    5 

Cases  for  papers,  &c.    . .  2 
Transfer    to    Furnishing 

Account 6 

Newspapers,  Long  Vac.  5 

Cleaning            „         „  i 

Newspapers^  Mich.  Term  4 

Cleamng            „        „  2 

1890. 

Newspapers,  Lent  Term  5 

Cleaning            „        „  I 

Gas  for  the  year  1889   ..  3 

Sundry  expenses    o 

Collecting  for  the  year  . .  i 

Balance  in  hand 9 


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4  10 


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Furnishing  Account, 


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Loan  advanced  by  Senior 

Bursar 40    o    o 

Amount  from  Current  Ac- 
count, as  above 6    9    3 


£4^    9    3 


1889.  /  s.    d. 

Cost  of  furnishing  and  de- 
corating Room 46    9    3 


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Alfred  Harker,  Treasurer, 

ToYNBEE  Hall. 

Among  the  lectures  and  classes  held  at  Toynbee  Hall  this 
term  we  notice  the  following  conducted  by  members  of  the 
College:  Dr  Ahhoit,  Bible  Class  (chiefly  for  teachers) ;  Mr H. 
Cunynghanie^  Improvident  Marriages ;  and  Mr  Rapson,  Coins 
and  Medals. 

Mr  Bamett,  Vicar  of  St  Jude's,  the  Warden,  paid  a  visit  to 
Cambridge  during  the  term,  and  a  meeting  was  held  in  Dr 
MacAlister^s  rooms,  at  which  a  number  of  members  of  the 
College  made  MrBamett's  acquaintance.  Several  Fellows  of 
the  College  have  consented  to  join  the  Cambridge  Committee 
of  the  Universities'  Settlement  Association. 

At  the  beginning  of  this  term  several  members  of  the  College 
Musical  Society  went  down  to  Toynbee  Hall,  for  th^  first  time,  to 
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and  his  excellent  programme  was  so  much  appreciated  by  the 
audience,  which  consisted  chiefly  of  dock  labourers,  that,  before 
leaving,  the  Society  was  asked  to  give  another  concert  next 
term.  Mr  Camegy  kindly  consented  to  do  so,  and  arrange- 
ments were  made  for  paying  another  visit  on  October  28. 

Any  one  who  is  interested  in  Toynbee  Hall,  and  has  not 
been  to  see  it,  might  make  this  an  opportunity  for  going  down 
for  the  day. 

The  following  was  the  programme  of  the  concert  this  term: — 

Song The  Three  Beggars  W.  R.  Elliott 

Song The  Lay  of  the  Very  Last  Minstrel A.  B.  F.  CoLE . 

Violin  Solo K.  Dingwall 

Song Hearts  of  Oak    H.  COLLISON 

Song The  Storm  Fiend F.  Sturgess 

n„ow^«f**»  Tu^  TTv—  ri.»f^^     (  H.  Collison,  F.  M.  Smith 

Song The  Village  Blacksmith    A.  B.  F.  Cole 

Song The  Cautious  Lover F.  D.  Hessey 

Song Tom  Bowling F.  G.  GiVEN-WiLSON 

!Reading The  Revenge G.  H.  R.  Garcia 

Song ,,.,Iama  Friar  of  Orders  Grey F.  W.  Carnegy 

Song To-morrowwill  be  Friday    F.  Sturgess 

Violin  Solo K.  Dingwall 

Song Sally  in  our  Alley F.  G.  Given-Wilson 

Song W.  R.  ELLfOTT 

Ql^x:^t\X^..Spring^sDelightsarenowRetuming  | p; W. CaSTeotJhX^^ 
God  Save  the  Queen, 


The  College  Mission  in  Walworth. 

The  Annual  Report  of  the  Mission  for  1889  has  been  issued, 
and  a  copy  sent  to  every  resident  member  of  the  College  and 
to  all  subscribers.  The  Secretaries  would  be  very  glad  to  have 
a  fuller  list  of  old  friends  of  the  Mission,  with  their  addresses. 
The  report  would  be  despatched  with  pleasure  to  all  old 
supporters,  whether  on  the  list  of  subscribers  or  not.  It  very 
frequently  is  the  case  that  the  years  immediately  after  leaving 
College  are  particularly  lean  years  financially  for  members  of 
the  university ;  and  there  is  no  need  to  suppose  that  the  Mission 
Committee  desires  to  make  continued  pecuniary  support  the 
test  of  continued  interest.  Not  a  few  very  hearty  letters  from 
old  friends  unable  to  subscribe  are  in  the  Treasurer's  desk, 
and  they  have  been  excellent  cordials  through  the  goodwill 
they  expressed. 

A  notable  event  since  our  last  issue  has  been  the  occupancy 
of  a  set  of  rooms  in  one  of  the  large  blocks  near  the  Mission 
Church.  A  sitting-room  and  two  bedrooms,  with  their  one 
front  door  giving  on  to  a  landing  on  the  second  floor,  have 
been  rented.  Mrs  Phillips  kindly  superintended  the  simple 
but  convenient  furnishing  and  the  Senior  and  Junior  Secretaries, 
happening  to  be  staying  at  the  Mission  together,  were  the  first 
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occupants.  These  rooms  will  be  at  the  disposal  of  membeTS 
of  the  College  when  visiting  the  Mission.  The  Secretaries 
constracted  breakfast  and  an  occasional  'tea*  for  themselves 
by  help  of  the  neighbouring  grocer  and  baker ;  but,  as  a  rale, 
meals  will  be  offered  at  the  Missioner's  house.  Pictures,  books, 
and  some  more  chairs  would  be  welcomed,  for  the  use  and 
enjoyment  of  the  visitors'  visitors.  It  is  hoped  that  young 
men  and  lads  will  often  be  gathered  in  the  sitting-room  in 
friendly  confabulation  with  the  temporary  residents.  The 
Trinity  College  house  of  residence  in  Camberwell  offers 
.permanent  rooms  for  its  men;  they  are  now  six  in  number, 
and  all  in  occupation.  As  Trinity  Court  is  to  Toynbee  Hall, 
so  is  the  block  at  Walworth  to  Trinity  Court.  Yet  who  knows 
but  what  our  modest  corner  may  be  as  genuine  a  means  of 
doing  good  ? 

The  London  Gazette  recently  contained  a  lengthy  announce- 
ment that  the  Lady  Margaret  parish  or  ecclesiastical  district 
or  chapelry  is  now  legally  formed.  It  is,  of  course,  the  first 
formed  under  this  title.  To  judge  from  the  enthusiasm  for  our 
Foundress  called  up  in  the  mind  of  the  writers  of  two  articles 
on  eminent  women  in  the  Girli  Own  Paper  (January  and 
February),  it  may  not  be  the  last.  The  Missioner  is  not  anxious 
to  be  instituted  *  vicar':  partly  because  he  likes  being  a 
Missioner ;  partly  because  he  scents  legal  fees,  although  there 
are  no  emoluments  or  '  benefits '  of  a  material  kind  attached 
for  him  to  be  inducted  into. 

We  gratefully  record  the  decision  of  the  Ecclesiastical 
Commissioners  to  give  a  grant  of  £i  500  for  the  parsonage.  As 
soon  as  the  district  was  legally  constituted  the  Committee 
again  reminded  the  Commissioners  that  there  was  neither 
residence  nor  endowment.  They  at  once  responded  by  granting 
the  former.  The  money  will  not  be  quite  enough,  but  some 
other  societies  and  public  bodies  may  be  looked  to  for  some 
additional  help.  Without  the  influence  of  the  Bishop  this 
result  could  not  have  been  attained.  From  observation 
of  what  ;t  has  cost  to  try  to  do  the  work  in  the  cramped  quarters 
of  a /'3s  house  in  London,  we  congratulate  the  Missioner  on 
the  prospect  of  speedily  being  housed  more  commodiously 
and  more  healthily.  But  not  more  cheerfully :  that  is  impossible 
with  the  surroundings,  save  to  the  pastor's  eye  who  sees  his 
flock  and  their  dwellings  all  around  him. 

On  May  5,  by  the  kind  permission  of  the  Chancellor  of  the 
University,  a  Concert  was  given  in  aid  of  the  debt-reduction. 
The  professional  artists  gave  their  services  through  the  kind 
offices  of  Mrs  Murdoch  of  Gloucester  Street,  Warwick  Square, 
who  is  a  sister  of  Mrs  Phillips.  To  Mrs  Murdoch  and  to  the 
artists,  as  well  as  to  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  our  hearty  thanks 
have  been  oflfered.  The  attendance  was  very  fair :  much  better 
than  had  seemed  likely  only  a  few  days  before,  as  the  time  for 
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brief  a  notice.  Several  old  members  of  the  College  resident 
in  London  lent  timely  aid  in  disposing  of  tickets  and  inviting 
friends.  The  net  result  was  over  £100:  and  we  believe  that 
several  new  friends  to  the  Mission  have  been  secured. 

The  Committee  hope  that  the  Coal-Porters  will  make  large 
'bags'  when  they  call  on  newly-made  B.A.'s  who  are  sajdng 
good-bye  to  Cambridge;  and  on  others  too,  who  have  old 
apparel  on  hand:  holes  and  tears  are  of  little  consequence; 
a  heavy  article  is  boisterously  welcomed  in  Walworth,  and 
boots  especially  are  in  great  demand. 

The  Missioners  expect  hopefully  a  large  contingent  of 
visitors  and  temporary  residents  during  the  Long  Vacation. 
This  is  the  very  bone  and  marrow  of  the  work. 


Scholarships  and  Open  Exhibitions  for  the  Year  1891, 

In  December  1890  there  will  be  open  for  competition  among 
students  who  have  not  commenced  residence  in  the  University 

Foundation  Scholarships  (2  of  /'80,  2  of  /"60,  2  of  /'so)— 
Tenable  for  two  years,  and  the  tenure  may  be  prolonged  for 
two  years  more. 

Minor  Scholarships  (4  of  £$0) — For  two  years  or  till  the 
holder  is  elected  to  a  Foundation  Scholarship. 

Exhibitions — ^Varying  in  number  and  value  according  to  the 
merits  of  the  Candidates  and  the  [number  of  vacancies  at  the 
time  of  the  election. 

Candidates  for  Scholarships  must  be  under  nineteen  years 
of  age.  This  restriction  does  not  apply  to  Candidates  for 
Exhibitions. 

Besides  Scholars  and  Exhibitioners  a  certain  number  of 
Sizars  may  be  elected  in  accordance  with  the  results  of  the 
Examinations. 

Candidates  who  acquit  themselves  with  credit  will  be  excused 
the  College  Entrance  Examination. 

Candidates  may  present  themselves  for  examination  in 
Classics,  Mathematics,  Natural  Sciences,  Hebrew,  Sanskrit. 

In  Classics  the  Examination  will  include  four  papers  con* 
taining  translation  from  Greek  and  Latin  into  English,  and 
Prose  and  Verse  composition.  Candidates  may  be  examined 
viva  voce,  and  may  also  be  required  to  write  a  short  English 
essay. 

In  Mathematics  the  Examination  will  include  three  papers 
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The  Portraits  of  BIsliOp  FisUcr 

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THE  PORTRAITS  OF  BISHOP  FISHER. 

j)ARK  Pattison  quotes,  in  his  Memoirs^  a  sentence^ 
of  Neate's :  "  Posterity  owes  to  those  who  have 
ejBFectually  worked  for  its  benefit  the  debt  of  a 
grateful  curiosity."  A  gratefiil  curiosity  has  led  to  the 
compilation  of  the  following  list,  made  in  some  haste, 
at  a  distance  from  adequate  materials,  and  being  a 
mere  mosaic  of  other  people's  elaborations. 

This  list  has  no  pretence  of  being  exhaustive.  The 
grouping  probably  will  be  shown  to  contain  defects. 
It  claims,  merely,  to  be  a  first  study  in  Iconography. 

I.  Word  Portraits. 
Dr  Richard  Hall,  who  had  belonged  to  Christ's 
College,  Cambridge,  was  living  within  30  years  of 
Bp.  Fisher's  death.  He  wrote  a  Life  of  Fisher  before 
1568,  and  must  at  any  rate  have  known  those  who 
had  actually  seen  Bp.  Fisher.  He  says  of  him :  "  In 
stature  of  his  body,  he  was  tall  and  comely,  exceeding 
the  common  and  middle  sort  of  men ;  for  he  was  to 
the  quantity  of  six  foot  in  height,  and  being  therewith 
very  slender  and  lean,  was  nevertheless  upright  and 
well  formed,  straight  back'd,  big  joynted,  and  strongly 
sinewed,  his  haire  by  nature  black,  though  in  his 
later  time,  through  age  and  imprisonment,  turned 
to  hoarinesse,  or  rather  to  whitenesse,  his  eys  large 
and  round,  neither  fiill  black  nor  fiiU  gray,  but  of  a 
mixt  colour  between  both,  his  forehead  smooth  and 
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large,  his  nose  of  a  good  and  even  proportion,  some- 
what wide  mouth'd  and  big  jaw'd,  as  one  ordained 
to  utter  much  speech,  wherein  was,  notwithstanding, 
a  certaine  comelinesse,  his  skin  somewhat  tawny, 
mixed  with  many  blew  veins,  his  face,  hands  and  all 
his  body,  so  bare  of  flesh,  as  is  almost  incredible, 
etc."  {Life^  selected  by  T.  Bayly,  Lond.  1655,  p.  2i5> 

II.  Portraits  Lost  or  Unidentified, 
I,  Hans  Holbein.  Up  to  comparatively  lately  was 
in  a  house  at  Rome  near  the  Pantheon.  A  copy. 
No.  15  in  this  list,  is  supposed  to  be  taken  from  this, 
and  is  now  in  the  possession  of  H.  D.  Grrissell,  Esq., 
at  Oxford,  who  has  supplied  this  information.  This 
may  have  been  the  portrait  thrown  out  of  a  window 
by  Anne  Poleyn.  Father  Stevenson  S.J^  the  historian, 
is  the  authority  for  this  anecdote. 

Z.  A  portrait  of  Bp.  Fisher  was  "always  kept  with 
great  respect,"  by  St  Charles  Borromeo,  says  Alban 
Butler. 

**  S.  Carlo  Borromeo  avea  per  questo  martire  [[Fisher]  tanta 
venerazione  quanto  ne  nudriva  pel  dottore  S.  Ambrogio,  ed 
anzi  fece  dipingere  la  sua  immagine  per  averlo  sempre  dinanzi 
agli  squardi."  Moroni,  Dizionario  di  Erudtzion^  StoriQO-Eccltsias- 
tka^  vol.  xi;v.  p.  75. 

3.  Portrait  in  Sussex? 

*<Mr  Bourchier...told  me  that  he  bad  seen  a  picture  of 
Bp.  Fisher  in  Sussex:  when  he  came  into  the  Library  [at 
Longleat],  I  asked  him,  whether  he  knew  that  picture, 
shewing  him  Bp,  Fisher^s ;  he  said  he  did  not,  and  afterwards 
told  us  that  in  Sussex  was  not  like  it,"  R.  Jenkin  to  T,  Baker 
(Maater's  Life  of  Baker,  p.  23). 

4.  It  has  not  been  possible  at  present  to  find  any 
information  about  the  following : 

"  I  saw  in  Nov.  1766  an  indifferent  Picture  of  Bishop  Fisher, 
with  one  of  Sir  Tho,  More,  Abp.  Plunket  &c:.,  on  a  Staircase 
near  the  Prior's  apartment  of  the  English  Benedictines  at  Paris.*' 
Cole's  MSS  vol.  7,  p.  126^  (See  Lewis,  Life  of  Fisher,  Vol.  !• 
pp.  xxvi-xxvii.) 


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lit.    Portraits,  Engravings  etc. 

.    1 .  Hans  Holbein.    Red  chalk.     Royal  Library  at 
Windsor. 

Drawn  in  1527,  when  the  bishop  was  fifty-eight  years  old. 
At  the  foot  of  the  portrait  are  written  the  words : 

"H  Epyscopo  de  resester  fo  tagliato  il  capo  Tan®  1535." 

Dr  Woltmann  says  of  this  and  the  companion  drawing: 
"  The  worn  countenance  with  its  honest,  modest,  but  anxiously 
conscientious  expression,  shows  completely  the  man,  whose 
wonderful  purity  of  life,  combined  with  profound  and 
unostentatious  learning,  as  well  as  incredible  kindness  of 
demeanour  towards  high  and  low,  is  extolled  by  Erasmus'* 
(Holbein  and  his  time,  Eng.  Trans,  p.  313). 

"The  portrait. .a  hard  ascetic  face.. is  among  the  most 
expressive  drawings  of  the  series.."  The  ''inscription  would 
imply  that  the  drawing  was  once  in  the  possession  of  an 
Italian." 

•*  A  fine  head  in  a  doctor's  cap,  nearly  full  face,  turned  to 
the  right;  very  thin;  body  in  mere  outline.  The  hard  lines 
..are  very  serviceable,  giving  great  force  of  nature  at  a  little 
distance"  (Womum,  Life  of  Holbein,  pp.  223,  404). 

Horace  Walpole  declared  these  chalk  drawings  by  Holbein 
"in  one  respect  preferable  to  his  finished  pictures,  as  they 
are  drawn  in  a  free  and  bold  manner.  .There  is  a  strength  and 
vivacity  equal  to  the  most  perfect  portraits."  He  declared 
this  one  of  Bp.  Fisher  "  a  master  piece." 

Photographed  by  Caldesi,  and  Messrs  Braun  and  Co. 

la.  (Copy).    Stipple  Engraving. 

John  Chamberlaine's  Imitations  of  Drawings  By  Holbein 
(Lond.,  1792 — 1800).    Engraved  by  Bartolozzi. 

i^.  Stipple  engraving  by  Facius  in  the  smaller 
edition  of  the  same  work,  published  in  181 2. 

ic.  (Autotype  Copies). 

Frontispiece  to  Rev  T.  E.  Bridgett's  Life  of  Fisher  (London 
1888).  The  head  only  4A  x  3J. 

Also  from  the  engraving  by  Bartolozzi.  Published  and  sold 
by  the  Art  for  Schools  Association,  29  Queen's  SquarCp 
Bloomsbury. 


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328  The  Portraits  of  Bishop  Fisher. 

2-  Hans  Holbein.    Red  Chalk.    British  Museum. 

Made  in  1527,  as  No.  I. 

''A  finished  drawing  of  the  sketch  in  the  British  Museum, 
bequeathed  by  Rev  C.  M.  Cracherode.  It  was  once 
Richardson's"  (Womum,  Lift  ofHelbein,  p.  404.) 

3.  Hans  Holbein.  (?)  Drawing.  Mrs  Noseda, 
109  Strand^  W.C. 

From  the  Earl  of  Westmoreland's  Collection.  Sold  for  the 
late  Dr  John  Percy,  on  April  24,  iSqOj  for  /'go,  by  Christie, 
Manson,  and  Woods. 

Has  the  Basle  watermark,  but  its  authenticity  has  been 
doubted. 

4.  Hans  Holbein.  Oil.  St  John's  College,  Cam- 
bridge (Master's  Lodge).     Panel,  28 J  x  24 J  inches. 

Half  length,  lifesize,  full-face.  Black  and  gold  embroidered 
doublet,  black  sur-coat,  doctor's  square  cap.  The  words 
"A''  iETATIS  74"  on  the  picture,  and  the  letters  "H.H." 
on  the  ring,  a  glove  in  the  left  hand,  a  sta£f  in  the  othen 

Given  in    1709  by  Thomas,    ist  Viscount  Weymouth,  in 
exchange  for  a  copy  (No.  4b)  to  T.  Baker,  after  whose  death 
in  1740  it  became  the  property  of  the  College.    For  Baker*s 
verses  on  the  reception  of  this  picture  into  College^  see  Mastei^s 
Life  of  Baker,  p.  xiv  (and  £agU,  vol.  xi.  p.  118). 
**  Welcome  from  Exile,  happy  Soule  to  me 
And  to  these  Walls,  that  owe  their  Rise  to  the^ 
Too  long  thou'rt  banisht  hence,  with  Shame  disgrac't. 
Thy  Arms  thrown  down,  thy  Monument  defac't, 
Thy  Bounties  great  like  ihe^  involved  in  Night, 
Till  some  bold  Hand  shall  bravely  give  them  Light* 
Too  long  oppress't  by  Force  and  Power  unjust. 
Thy  Blood  a  Sacrifice  to  serve  a  Lust. 
In  vain  proud  Herod  bids  thee  be  forgot. 
Thy  Name  shall  brightly  shine,  whilst  his  shall  rot.*' 
See  Woltmann,  Holbein^   2nd  edit.  (1874),  ^ol«  !•  P*  343^.      "The 
Portrait  is  not  an  original."     It  has  been  doubted,  by  Dr  Scharf  among 
others,  whether  indeed  it  represents  Fisher  at  all. 

Shown  at  the  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society's  first 
Exhibition  of  University  and  College  Pictures  held  in  the 
Fitzwilliam  Museum  in  1884;  and  at  the  Tudor  Exhibition, 
London  1890 ;  and  at  National  Portrait  Exhibition  1866. 


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4a.  (Copy).  Canvas,  28}  x  24J.  Queens'  College^ 
Cambridge  (President's  Lodge). 

This  is  an  exact  and  good  reproduction.  The  inscription  is 
across  the  top  of  the  picture  in  white  letters:    ''jOH.  fisheH 

BPISC.  ROFF.  PRBS.  COLL.  REGIN.  ANN  1505.  CESSIT  ANN  I508.'' 

Shown  at  the  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society's  Exhibition 
at  the  Fitzwilliam  Museum  in  1884. 

4^.  (Copy).  Canvas.  In  the  possession  of  the 
Marquis  of  Bath,  at  Longleat,  Wiltshire. 

Made  by  permission  of  Lord  Weymouth  in  1709^  and 
exchanged  with  the  original.  Same  as  preceding,  but  for  a 
^  on  the  ring,  instead  of  the  "H.H."  "The  copy  cost 
£\o  of  which  you  may  guess  it  is  not  ill  done.  And  indeed, 
as  it  has  hit  the  Likeness^  so  it  is  as  well  (if  not  better)  finished 
that  the  original."  R.  Jenkin  to  T.  Baker  (Master*8  Lift  of 
Baker^  p.  24).* 

4c.  (Copy).    Drawing.    Harlelan  MSS  7030. 
"Presumed;.,  from  the  copy  ...at  Longleat."     (Lewis,  Life 
of  Fishery  vol.  L  p.  xxiii). 

5.  Unknown.  PaneL  2oxi6J.  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge  (Master's  Lodge). 

Looks  to  left,  hands  closed  in  prayer,  surplice  and  stole, 
Doctor's  cap. 

Shown  at  the  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society's  first 
Exhibition  of  University  and  College  Pictures  held  in  the 
Fitzwilliam  Museum  in  1884. 

6-  Unknown.  Oil.  Panel,  25  x  18^  inches.  St 
John's  College,  Cambridge  (Hall). 

In  surplice  and  stole,  a  black  cloth  cap  on  his  head,  hands 
clasped  in  prayer.  Looks  to  left.  Beside  him  a  crucifix; 
and  a  small  carved  skeleton  on  the  lid  of  a  box.  "  A  very 
mortified  and  meagre  personage "  says  Cole.f  Cole  thinks 
this  picture  was  presented  to  T.  fiaker  by  the  Marquis  of 
Bath,  but  here  he  seems  to  have  confused  it  with  the  portrait 

•  "Mr  Roper  of  St  John's  College  was  very  desirous  of  a  Copy  of  this 
Picture  likewise,  but  the  Painter's  stay  was  so  short,  it  could  not  be 
procured."    (Postaipt). 

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330  The  Portraits  of  Bishop  Fisher. 

from  Longleat  (Lewis  i.  p.  xxvi).  Father  Bridgett  says  of  it 
in  his  Lift  of  Fisher :  **  It  is  either  not  Fisher  at  ail  or  ^ 
mere  fancy  portrait."  Robert  Masters  in  his  Life  of  Baker 
says :  *'  This  picture  represents  him  as  much  thinner  in  the  face 
[than  the  one  by  Holbein]  and  seems  to  have  been  taken 
just  before  his  execution." 

7.  Unknown.  Panel.  12  x  loi-  Christ's  College, 
Cambridge  (Combination  Room). 

Head  and  shoulders  only<  In  rochet  and  brown  fur  almuce, 
and  Doctor's  cap.  Bought  from  Messrs  Patrick  and  Simpson, 
by  Rev  F.  O.  White,  of  St  John's  College,  and  sold  to  Christ's 
College  in  1884^  during  the  mastership  of  Doctor  Swainson, 
for  £s. 

Shown  at  the  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society's  first  exhi- 
bition of  University  and  College  Pictures  held  in  the  Fitzwilliam 
Museum  in  1884. 

8.  Unknown.  Oil.  21x16  in.  Scots  College  at 
Rome. 

In  red  Cardinal's  cap,  purple  mozetta,  and  rochet,  to  left. 
Information  supplied  by  Mr  GrisselL 

9.  Unknown.  Panel.  2iJxi6Jin.  Property  of 
Hon  H.  Tyrwhitt  Wilson,  at  Keythorpe,  Leicestershire. 

Half-length,  life-size,  to  left,  wearing  black  cassock,  white 
rochet  and  black  stole,  and  biretta.  He  holds  a  prayer  book  in 
both  hands. 

This  is  probably  the  portrait  mentioned  by  Dallaway  in  his 
notes  to  Walpole  as  being  seen  at  Didlington,  Norfolk. 
Didlington  was  then  one  of  the  seats  of  the  Bemers  family, 
of  which  the  Hon  H.  Tyrwhitt  Wilson  is  the  representative. 

Shown  at  Tudor  Exhibition,  London  1890, 

10.  CiRCiGNANO  (NiCO).  Fresco.  Once  in  the 
Church  of  the  English  College,  at  Rome. 

Painted  in  1583.  One  of  thirty-six  pictures,  painted  at  the 
expense  of  George  Gilbert,  the  friend  of  Persons  and  Campion  ; 
of  which  the  last  nine  represent  the  modern  English  martyrs 
down  to  1583.  Father  William  Good,  the  confessor  of  the 
college,   gave    the  painter   his  instructions,  and.   wrote   the 


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inscriptions  under  the  paintings.  This  one  represents 
Bp.  Fisher,  Sir  Thomas  More,  and  Margaret,  Countess  of 
Salisbury.  Fisher  is  represented,  already  beheaded,  stretched 
out  on  the  scaffold. 

loa.   Engraved  by  Giovanni  Battista  Cavalieri.   9x5. 

Published  as  a  book,  EccUsicB  AnglicancB  Trophaa^  at  Rome, 

in  1584.    The  inscription  underneath  is:  joannes  fischerus, 

BPUS  ROFFENSIS  IN  ANGLIA  CARD.  DECLARATUS.  VITE,  ET  DOC- 
TklNB  INTBGSRR.  LAUDE  CLARISS.  AB  HENR.  VIIJ.  QD  PONT. 
AUCTEM  TUERETUR  CAPITE  PLECTITUR. 

\6b.   (Facsimile).    7x5. 

Reproduded  and  edited,  with  Preface,  by  Father  John  Morris, 
S.  J.,  under  title  of  The  Picture  of  the  English  ColUge  at  Rome, 
Stonyhurst  College  1887. 

11.  Unknown.  Oil.  English  College  at  Rome 
(Refectory). 

Bought  by  Mgr  Patterson,  Bishop  of  Emmaus,  in  an 
antiquarian  shop  at  Rome;  and  presented  to  the  college*  It 
is  probable  that  this  was  originally  in  Bp.  Fisher's  titular  church 
of  S.  Vitale.  At  least  a  portrait  of  him  was  in  the  Presbytery 
there  in  the  last  century  and  was  seen  by  a  Jesuit  Father,  as 
the  following  quotation  from  a  description  of  that  church 
will  testify :  "  L'ultimo  Card,  di  questo  titolo  fu  il  celeberrimo 
Giovanni,  Fischero  Inglese,  sostegno  della  religione  Cattolica 
neir  Inghilterra  e  gloriosissimo  Martire. 

"Si  conserva  il  suo  ritratto  colla  sequente  iscrizione  che 
qoalifica    un    soggetto    tanto    illustre    e    tanto    memorando. 

JOHANNES  FISHERUS  ANGLUS,  EPISCOPUS  ROFFENSIS,  CARDI- 
NALIS  A  PAULO  III.  CREATUS,  TIT.  S.  VITALIS,  QUI  PRIUS  TAMEN 
Martyrii.  QUAM  CARDINALATUS  PVRPURAM  ACCEPIT,  AB 
HBNRICO  VIII,  OB  FIDEI  CATHOLICS  &  SEDIS  APOSTOLICiB 
PRIMATUS  DEFENSIONEM,  OCCISUS  ANNO  CHRISTI  MD.  XXXV 
JBTATIS  VERO  76.  PRIMUS  FERE  OMNIUM  LUTHERUM  & 
LUTHERANOS  SCRIPTIS  SUIS  DOCTISSIME  CONFUTAVIT."    (Mariano 

Partenio  {t.e,  Giuseppe  Maria  Mazzolari,  S.  J.  (17 12 — 86)]. 
Diario  Sacro,  2da  ediz.,  riveduta  di  Leonardo  Adami.  Roma 
J  808.  vol.  vii.  p.  146).  This  reference  was  first  pointed  out 
by  Mr  Grissell,  to  whom  the  re-discovery  of  the  picture's 
history— if  this  be  the  one— is  consequently  due. 


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332  The  Portraits  of  Bishop  Fisher. 

12-  Engravings  frona  a  lost  original,  probably  by 
Hans  Holbein. 

They  all  have  the  Doctor^s  cap,  and  for  the  most  part  th& 
Doctor's  furred  gown. 

12a.   Half  figure,  fi-ont  face,  in  same  plate  with  Sir 
Thomas  More :  JOANNES  ROFFENSis.    th;omas  morus^ 
Verses  below : 

lOANNES  FISCHBRB  prior,  Rofiensis,  imago, 

Antistes :  thoma  more,  secanda  tui  est. 
Anglia  uos  quondam  communis  patria  iunxit, 

Indigna,  heu,  tantis,  mnndos  ut  ipse,  uiris, 
Sed  magis  ingenium  probitas,  doctrinaqae  pollens, 

£t  uera&  iunxit  religionis  amor. 
Ob  quem  camificis  uos  percutit  una  securis. 

Unaque  nex  binis,  unaque  causa  necis. 
Quam  bene  caelesti  iunctorum  sede  duonim 

Iunxit  et  effigies  una  tabella  duas! 

(No  name  of  engraver  or  publisher.) 

\2b.  Copy  of  the  above.    The  two  figures  separated. 
Fisher  appears  in  a  niche,  the  first  five  verses  below  as  before. 
F.  V,  W.  (Wyngaerde)  excu.    H.  Holbeen,  in, 

12c.  To  right.    Book  in  left  hand. 
Under  it  the  inscription : 

"JOHANNES  FISCHERUS  EPISCOPUS  ROFPESIS  AGLUS. 

Moribus,  ingenio,  calamo,  sermone  Britannus: 

Mirandus  prisca  proprietate  cadit. 
Cum  cecidit  ferro  haec  ceruix  praecisa  omento 

Virtus  ingenium  concidit  et  pietas." 

From  Philip  Galleus'  Virorum  Doctorum  Effigies  (1573). 

1 2d.  To  right  under  ornamented  niche. 
**  Johannes  Fischerus  Episcopus  Roffensis  Aglus."  Tablet  in 
right  hand:  'Verbum  Domini  Manet  In  Aeternu.*     Scroll  on 
table:   'Nascitur  in  Anglia  Obtruncatur  21  Junii  Anno  1535.' 
Below  verses: 

Concidit  ut  ferro  cervix  praecisa  Johannis 
Virtus  ingenium  concidit  et  pietas. 

Engraved  by  J.  T.  De  Bry  in  Boissard's  Bihliotheca  Chalco- 
graphica  (Frankfurt  1650). 


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\ie.  To  left  in  oval.      Below   ^^  Joannes  Fischerus 
Bisschop  van  Rochestre." 
Fred.  Bouttats  sc. 

1 2/.  To  right  in  circle.    Below  "  Fischer  "  verses ;     , 

"An  Pontife  Romain  je  temoigne  mon  z£le 

Anx  depens  de  celui  que  je  dois  i  mon  Roi : 
Je  meurs  comme  martir,  ou  bien  comme  rebelle, 
£t  je  voi  tout  le  monde  on  pour  on  contre  moi." 
Adr»  Vander  Werff  pinx.  G.  Valck  sculp^^ 

In  Larre/s  History  of  England  (1697— 171 3% 

\2g.  Engraving  on  copper.     6|x4f. 
Phil.  Galleus'  Vtrorum  Doctorum  Effigies  (Antv.  1577). 
In  Doctor's  cap  and  gown  with  fur,  to  left.    He  holds  book 
in  his  right  hand.    Inscription  as  i2r. 

"Johannes  Fischerus  Episcopus  Roffensis,  Anglos,'* 
*<Moiibns,  ingenio  &c." 

1 2 A.    Engraving  on  copper.    6f  x  4f . 
Engraved  by  Nic.  Jan.  Visscher  (born  1580)* 
No.  8  of  a  series  of  38.      Under  it  are  the  same  verses. 
Visscher's  name  and  device  (CIV  in   monogram — C  repre* 
senting  Claas,  or  Nicolaas)  are  on  the  first  and  last  of  the  set. 

12%.  Engraving  on  copper.     7  x  4 J. 
Theod.  Galleus,  xii  Cardinalium  illustrium  Imagines.    (Antv. 

1598).* 

Same  as  last,  bat  to  right.    Probably  reversed  in  engraving. 
"  Galleus  in  his  preface  says  that  these  portraits  Were  in  Rome 
"when  he  published  his  work." 

12J.  Engraving  on  copper.     6|  x  5f . 

Thevet,  Portraits  des  hommes  iltustres  p.  166  (Paris  1584). 
To  right.  Gown  has  no  fur.  Right  hand  resting  on  an  hour- 
glass.    Otherwise  same  as  last  set,  but  without  the  verses. 

12k.  Engraving  on  copper.     7|x5f. 

By  N.  de  Larmessin,  in  Bullert's  Acad,  des  sciences  (Paris 
1682),  with  monogram  on  the  cover  of  the  book.  Doctor's 
gown  with  fur,  and  cap.    To  left. 

•  No  copy  in  University,  Fitzwilliam,  Trinity,  or  St  John's  College 
Libraries. 

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12/.  Engraving  on  copper.    3  x  if . 
Frehenis,   Theairum  vtrorum  illusinum,  (Noribergae  1688), 
12m,  Engraving.  5X4jin. 

In  surplice  under  fur  gown  without  sleeves.  Square  cap^ 
To  right. 

1 3'  Engravings  from  different  originals. 
1 3a.   Half  length  to  left.    Doctor's  cap  and  Cardinal's  robe. 
"loANNES  Card  Fischerus.    Creat  An**  1535.     Mort.  1535* 
F  V  W  (Wyngaerde)/^." 

13^.  Engraving,  by  Robert  Vaughan.  6x3. 
Prefixed  to  Hall's  Life  of  Fisher^  selected  by  T.  Bayly, 
London  1655.  Looks  to  left.  In  Dactor^s  gown  and  cap. 
In  oval  frame,  with  arms  of  Fisher,  impaling  Rochester  on  the 
left  and  Fisher  right  with  Cardinal's  Hat.  Inscription:  ''The 
Right  reverend  father  in  God,  John  Fisher  B,  of  Rochester." 
Under  it  are  these  verses : 

"John  Fisher  was  his  name,  of  whom  you  read 
Like  John  ye  Baptist,  this  John  lost  his  head. 
Both  ye  sharpe  axes  stroake  theyr  body's  seeles 
Both  theyr  heads  danc'd  of,  by  light  payrs  of  heeles. 
Read  but  this  book  this  Fisher  through,  and  then 
You'l  iinde  a  fisher,  not  of  fish,  but  men.*' 

13^.  Engraving  on  copper,  by  R.  Parr  (1723-^50?) 
5f  X  3|.      ■ 

Prefixed  to  the  2nd  and  3rd  editions  of  Hall's  Life  of  Fisher, 

A  copy  of  the  preceding :  but  looks  to  right.  In  Doctor's 
gown  and  cap.  In  oval  frame,  but  without  the  versus  at  foot. 
Inscription.  **The  Rt  Reverend  Father  in  God,  John  Fisher, 
Bp.  of  Rochester." 

Remigius  Parr  was  bom  in  Bp.  Fisher's  own  city  of  Rochester. 
He  was  still  living  in  1750. 

1 4-  Simon  (P.).   Engraving  on  copper.   6^  in.  x  4|f  • 

Prefixed  to  the  3rd  (Dublin)  edition  of  Hall's  Life  of  Fisher^ 
1740. 

i4«.  HouBRAKEN  (Jacobus>  1698 — 1780.  Engrav- 
ing 14  X  8f . 

Inscription.  **  In  the  Collection  of  Mr  Richardson."  From 
Birch's  Heads  of  Illustrious  Persons.  (Lond.  1743 — 52).  In 
Doctor's  gown  and  cap.  To  right.  This  is  the  same  as 
preceding,  but  enlarged. 


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14^.  Autot3rpe.    Oval  reduced.    4JX3J. 

Frontispiece  to  Lift  of  Fisher  by  Agnes  Stewart  (London 
1879).  This  includes  the  papal  tiara  and  keys  placed  over  the 
portrait,  and  the  flaming  urn  beneath  it« 

\^c.  Autot3rpe.    Oval  reduced.     3I  x  2J.    Nimbus. 

Frontispiece  to  the  reprint  of  B.  Fisher's  Sermons  on  the 
Seven  Penitential  Psalms^  edited  by  Rev  Kenelm  Vaughan 
(London  1888).  This,  which  by  the  courtesy  of  F*  Vaughan 
is  reproduced  with  this  number  of  the  Eagle,  only  includes  the 
voluted  rim  of  the  portrait,  with  the  inscription  "  Fisher,  Bishop 
of  Rochester"  and  the  flaming  urn.  Owing  to  the  Decree  of 
Beatification,  passed  by  the  Congregation  of  Sacred  Rites  in 
1886,  a  nimbus  has  been  added. 

15-  CAROLtJS  RUSPI.  OiL  3oin.  X24jin.  In  the 
possession  of  Mr  Grissell,  at  O^tford, 

Looks  to  left.    Merely  head  and  chest. 
Supposed  to  be  copied  from  the  Holbein  mentioned  above 
(Portraits    Lost  No.    i).      With    the   inscription:    iohannes 

FISCHERIUS  ANGLUS,  BP.  ROFFENSIS^  S.  R- E.  CARDINALIS  PRO 
CATHOLICA  FIDE  CAI»ITE  ABSCINDITUR  DIE  XXll  lUNII  A.MDXXXVl. 

Bought  at  the  sale  of  Cardinal  Bizzarri  (created  1863,11877). 
Carolus  Ruspi  lived  in  the  present  century,  and  worked  for  a 
considerable  time  in  the  Vatican^ 

15^!.  Carolus  Ruspi.  Original  drawing  for  the 
foregoing.    Biblioteca  Casanatense,  Rome. 

Also  pointed  out  by  Mr  Grissell. 

15^.  (Copy).    OiL    English  College  at  Rome. 

15^.  Unknown.  Oil?  Convent  attached  to  the 
Basilica  of  S.  Pietro  in  Vincoli,  at  Rome. 

Mr  Grissell,  who  has  drawn  attention  to  this,  says  of 
it :  "  nothing  to  speak  of/'  "  Like  mine,  but  not  so  carefully 
painted." 

Bought  with  other  pictures  from  the  collection  of  Cardinal 
Leonardo  Antonelli,  who  died  early  in  this  century.  (Information 
supplied  by  the  Abbot  of  S.  Pietro  to  Mr  Grissell). 

16-  Lithograph  Engraving.  Group.  Executed  in 
Belgium.     i6  x  18. 

This  was  prepared  by  F.  John  Morris  S.  J.,  an  old  member 
of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  some  years  back. 


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336  The  Portraits  of  Bishop  Fisher. 

17-  H.  Barraxjd.  Engraving.  Group.  22fxisi- 
The  English  Catholic  Martyrs^  1535 — 1583.  (Lond.  1888.) 

£p.  Fisher  is  here  one  of  a  group.  The  portraits  are,  as 
far  as  possible,  trustworthy. 

IV.    Supposititious  Portrait. 

I.   Oil.    Property  of  Major  Brooks. 
A  bearded  Portrait.    "It  is  neither  by  Holbeinj"  says  Dr 
Woltmann,   "nor  does  it  represent  Fisher.** 

Shown  in  the  Portrait  Exhibition  in  1866  as  by  Holbein. 

V.    Statues. 

1.  Entrance  to  St  John's  College  Chapel. 

2.  Rochester  Cathedral  Choir  Screen.  Executed 
in  1890. 

For  the  statues  and  other  memorials  of  Fisher  in 
the  new  Roman  Catholic  Church,  Cambridge,  we  refer 
our  readers  to  the  article  which  follows. 


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BISHOP  FISHER  AND  THE  NEW  ROMAN 
CATHOLIC  CHURCH. 

gHE  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  *  Our  Lady  and 
the  English  Martyrs'  lately  opened  at  Hyde 
Park  Comer,  Cambridge,  is  remarkable  not 
more  for  its  conspicuous  beauty  than  for  the  amount 
of  historical  and  traditional  lore  which  has  been  set 
forth  in  its  sculpture  and  painted  glass.  As  one  of 
the  most  notable  of  the  *  English  Martyrs'  is  our 
second  founder,  Bishop  Fisher,  it  is  not  surprising 
to  find  him  commemorated  in  the  new  church  with 
special  honour.  We  extract  the  following  passages 
from  an  account  of  the  church  which  has  just  been 
published. 

p.  2.  [In  a  description  of  the  interior  of  the  Ante-chapel], 
"The  large  figure  on  the  right  of  the  doorway,  B.  John 
Fisher  in  chasuble,  dalmatic,  stole,  alb  and  mitre ;  with  crozier 
turned  outwards,  in  token  of  his  episcopal  office.".... "Carry 
the  eye  up  to  the  bosses  in  the  roof.  In  the  centre  the 
Crown  OF  Thorns.  To  the  north  the  letter  *F'  for  Fisher, 
with  the  axe  of  his  martyrdom,  and  above  them  the  episcopal 
mitre.  To  the  south,  Bp.  Fisher's  Cardinal's  Hat  above  a 
copy  of  the  New  Testament,  the  inscription  on  which  should 
be — Hoic  est  vita  aetema;  ui  cognoscani  Tc  solum  Deum  verum 
tt  Quern  misistt  Jesum  Christum^ 

p.  5.  "The  figures  at  the  back  of  the  Baldacchino  represent 
B.  John  Fisher  and  B.  Thomas  More." 

p.  9.  "Round  the  Chapel  [of  All  Souls]  are  the  more 
famous  names  of  BB.  Margaret  Pole,  J.  Fisher,  Ric.  Reynolds 
and  T.  More." 


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338    Bishop  Fisher  and  the  New  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

p.  ir.  [The  West  Window  of  the  Ante-chapel  representing 
*  The  Martyrs ']  "  is  arranged  in  two  principal  groups, — of  the 
Clergy  on  the  dexter  side,  with  B.  John  Fisher  in  their  midst, 
and  the  Laity  on  the  sinister  grouped  around  B.  Thomas 
More." 

p.  14.  [The  Windows  in  the  Tower  commemorate  the  dedi- 
cation of  our  colleges.  The  left  Window  contains  a  figure 
of  our  patron,  St  John.] 

p.  27,  &c.  [The  Windows  of  the  Aisles  commemorate  the 
English  Martyrs:  they]  "do  not  pretend  to  be  historically 
true  in  every  detail."  [The  South  Aisle,]  **  because  of  his  being 
in  so  many  important  ways  identified  with  Cambridge,  is  made 
a  'Fisher'  aisle  and  is  wholly  devoted  to  scenes  from  the 
Life  of  the  Blessed  Bishop  of  Rochester." 

The  windows  in  the  South  Aisle  are  thus  described  j 

**  South  Aisle  I.  Crossing  now  to  the  "  Fisher  Aisle,"  the 
first  window  (from  the  west  end)  represents  the  Mass  at  King's 
College  Chapel.  In  the  dexter  light,  B.  John  Fisher  is  blessing 
the  Royal  Party  from  the  Altar ;  the  King's  Choristers  standing 
by  are  ending  the  Communio*  It  being  on  S.  George's  Day, 
an  embroidered  banner  of  the  Saint  is  seen  over  the  stalls. 
In  the  sinister  light.  King  Henry  VIL  and  his  son  Henry 
VIII.,  a  youth,  kneel  in  their  cloaks  of  the  Order  of  the 
Garter.  As  they  were  then  on  their  way  to  the  Shrine  of 
Our  Lady  of  Walsingham,  two  costly  gifts  are  shown.  The 
King's  mother.  Lady  Margaret,  stands  beside  them,  and  three 
knights  of  S.  George  in  the  cloaks  of  the  Garter  are  in  the 
stalls.  In  the  tracery,  the  red  and  white  rose;  the  crown 
in  the  hawthorn  bush ;  the  arms  of  Henry  VII.  The  legend : 
Tetribilis  est  locUs  iste;  hie  locus  Dei  est;  est  porta  coeli  et  vocabitur 
aula  Dei  (Office  of  the  Dedication  of  a  Church). 

South  Aisle  II.  (sinister).  B.  John  Fisher's  Oratory  at 
Rochester.  The  Altar  is  shown  as  described  in  the  ancient 
Inventory,  with  the  pyx  hanging,  the  representation  of  the 
head  of  S.  John  Baptist,  the  eight  gilt  Saints,  the  hangings, 
scroll,  etc.  The  Lady  Margaret  Beaufort  presents  to  B.  Fisher 
the  deed  of  Foundation  of  S.  John's  College. 

"South  Aisle  II.  (dexter).  B.  John  Fisher  preaching  at 
Paul's  Cross.    Notice  on  his  cope  Ma(ria).     He  is  preaching 


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from  the  fifteenth  century  pulpit  (which  was  afterwards  replaced 
by  the  Jacobean  one).  A  Sheriff  of  the  City,  and  others,  are 
listening  earnestly;  some  ladies  are  in  a  balcony,  showing 
the  old  custom  of  people  of  distinction  listening  from  tem- 
porary stages  erected  on  purpose,  between  the  buttresses  of 
the  Cathedral.  The  great  spire  of  the  old  Church  is  seen 
running  up  into  the  head  of  the  light.  In  the  tracery, 
S.  John's  Chalice  (for  S.  John's  College),  the  Tudor  Rose, 
and  Portcullis. 

"South  Aislb  III.  Refusal  of  the  Oaths  of  Supremacy 
and  Succession.  In  the  sinister  light  B.  John  Fisher  is 
refusing  to  take  the  Oath,  the  preamble  of  which  is  held 
by  a  royal  page.  Above  are  the  Bishops,  some  hesitant. 
Cranmer  is  seated  in  the  centre,  with  a  book  of  Church 
Laws.  In  the  dexter  light  King  Henry,  in  f\iry,  is  dictating 
a  letter  to  the  Convocation ;  the  Royal  Arms  are  seen  above 
bis  head,  Cromwell  is  seated  below,  and  the  royal  page  is 
writing  down  the  message.  This  scene  only  pretends  to  be 
symbolical  of  the  real  facts,  and  is  brought  together  as 
explanatory  of  them.  The  legends:  Over  the  King,  Fou 
shall  swear  to  bear  your  Faith^  Truths  and  Obedience  alone  to 
the  King's  Majesty,  Over  B,  Fisher,  As  my  own  conscience 
cannot  be  satisfied^  I  absolutely  refuse  the  oath.  In  the  tracery, 
the  arms  of  the  See  of  Rochester,  of  Lady  Margaret,  and 
the  margarite  again. 

"  South  Aisle  IV.  (sinister).  BB.  Thomas  More  and  Fisher 
meeting  at  the  gate  of  Lambeth  Palace;  the  former  kneels 
to  receive  the  blessing  of  the  Bishop,  and  says  to  him,  "  Well 
met,  my  lord,  I  hope  we  shall  soon  meet  in  Heaven";  to 
which  the  Bishop  replies,  "This  should  be  the  way.  Sir 
Thomas,  for  it  is  a  straight  gate  we  are  in."  Some  guards 
are  looking  on,  and  one  of  the  Bishop's  enemies  is  standing 
in  the  porch  pointing  to  the  two  friend-martyrs.  The  little 
dog  is  in  allusion  to  the  story  told  of  the  B.  Chancellor's 
playful  judgment  about  a  pet  dog  claimed  by  Lady  Alice, 
his  wife. 

"  South  Aisle  IV.  (dexter).  The  Blessed  Martyr,  in  shirt 
and  rochet  only,  springs  actively  up  the  scaffold,  to  the  surprise 
of  all  who  knew  his  feebleness  from  imprisonment  and  anxiety 
for  the  Faith,  and  spreads  his  hands  towards  the  sun,  now 


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340    Bishop  Fisher  and  the  New  Roman  Catholic  Churchy 

suddenly  shining  upon  his  face,  and  repeats  the  words  of  the 
Psalm,  Accedite  ad  eum  et  tlluminamini,  et  fades  veslrae  mm 
confundentur.  In  the  tracery,  the  Cross  of  S.  Andrew.  On 
the  dexter  side,  B.  Fisher^s  arms;  on  the  sinister,  those  of 
B.  Thomas  More;  at  the  top,  S.  Alban's  badge." 

With  reference  to  the  last  emblem,  we  are  reminded 
that  Bishop  Fisher  "suffered  martyrdom  upon  St 
Alban's  day"  (June  22,  1535). 

p.  40.  [In  the  description  of  the  exterior  of  the  Church 
it  is  stated  that]  "  the  statue  in  the  niche  (of  the  Tower  porch) 
is,  of  course,  that  of  Bishop  Fisher  as  Cardinal,  the  most 
famous  Churchman  whom  the  University  of  Cambridge  has 
produced." 

It  would  seem  that  the  other  Johnian  Martyr, 
"•Greenwood,*  is  not  specially  commemorated  in  the 
church,  although  in  the  calendar  at  the  end  of  our 
guide  we  find  the  name  of  *B.  William  Greenwood 
lay  brother'  among  those  of  the  Carthusians,  killed 
by  slow  starvation  in  Newgate  at  the  end  of  June  1537. 

•  Hall's  Life  of  Fisher,  p.  31  (1655). 


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NOTES  FROM  THE  COLLEGE  RECORDS. 

(Continued  from  p,  t^f.J 


-^^JR  the  material  of  previous  "Notes"  we  have 
been  indebted  to  the  correspondence  of  Dr  Gwyn. 
In  the  present  instalment  will  be  found  letters 
relating  to  the  very  beginnings  of  College  history. 
The  deciphering  of  these  venerable  documents  in 
faded  ink  and  crabbed  hands  has  taken  much  time. 
I  have  to  thank  Professor  Mayor  and  Mr  G.  C.  M.  Smith 
for  their  assistance  in  the  work.  Several  of  the 
letters  are  injured  by  damp,  probably  in  the  transit 
from  the  writer  to  the  recipient,  and  some  are  torn. 
The  letter  from  Hornby  to  the  Brethren  of  St  John's 
Hospital  has  now  a  hole  in  the  centre  of  it.  There 
is  a  transcript  of  the  letter  in  the  Baker  MSS,  and 
this  has  supplied  us  with  the  missing  words. 

The  College,  as  is  well  known,  was  founded  upon 
the  old  Hospital  of  St  John,  which  had  fallen  into 
dec^y-  Acting  upon  Fisher's  advice  it  was  the  intention 
of  the  Lady  Margaret  to  have  had  this  transformed 
into  a  College  of  secular  students.  But  as  she  died 
before  her  designs  had  been  completed  the  duty  fell 
upon  her  executors.  For  an  account  of  the  difl&culties 
which  met  them  at  every  step  from  "an  imperious 
pope,  a  forbidding  prince,  and  a  mercenary  prelate" 
I  must  refer  my  readers  to  £taker*s  History  of  our 
House  and  Cooper's  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret, 
both  edited  by  Professor  Mayor. 

At  the  time  of  its  dissolution  there  were  but  three 
Brethren  of  the  old  Hospital,  Sir  Christopher  Wright, 

VOL.  XVI.  YY 


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Sir  John  Kensham  and  Sir  William  Chandeler.  The 
prefix  'Sir'  denotes  that  they  were  priests,  either 
of  no  degree  or  not  yet  possessing  the  Master's  degree* 
Henry  Hornby,  who  was  very  active  in  the  work  of 
the  College,  was  Secretary  and  Chancellor  of  the 
Foundress,  and  one  of  her  executors.  He  became 
Master  of  Peterhouse  in  1509.  The  College  seems 
at  one  time  to  have  possessed  a  portrait  of  Iiim, 
for  in  Baker's  MSS,  Vol.  12,  fol.  225b,  now  in  the 
British  Museum,  we  read 

In  a  chamber  of  the  old  Court,  next  the  Bell»  fomierlj 
part  of  the  old  Library,  there  is  a  picture  of  Dr  Hombj, 
as  seems  to  appear  by  an  escutchion.  The  Arms  or,  bearing 
Three  Bewgle  Horns,  betwixt  a  Chevron  Sable,  the  whole 
encompass'd  with  a  Bordure  as  a  mark  of  distinction. 

The  letters  it  will  be  observed  do  not  contain  any 
indication  of  the  years  in  which  they  were  written. 
But  we  can  form  an  idea  of  their  dates  by  remembering^ 
that,  according  to  the  College  Registers,  possession 
was  given  to  the  executors  on  the  20th  January  15 10, 
and  that  the  Chapel  was  opened  by  Fisher  in  July 
of  the  year  15 16. 

The  Bishop  of  Ely  was  James  Stanley,  a  stepson 
of  the  Foundress. 

Robert  Shorton  the  first  Master  was  of  Jesus 
College.  He  resigned  the  Mastership  of  St  John's  in 
15 1 6,  and  became  Master  of  Pembroke  Hall  in  15 18. 


Addressed:   To  the  felows  of  Saint  Johns  House  in  Cambridge. 

Trusty  and  wellbeloued  I  grete  you  well.  And  accordinge 
to  my  promise  made  vnto  you  at  your  last  being  w^  me  I 
baue  endeuo^ed  my  self  to  doo  the  best  for  you  that  may 
lye  in  me.  How  be  it  now  I  perceyue  that  sache  bulles 
be  obteyned  that  whether  I  will  or  not  meanes  wilbe  founde 
that  ye  shalbe  removed  frome  yo'  house.  Wherefor  I  wol 
aduise  and  also  desir  you  to  resigne  and  renounce  all  such 
title  and  interesse  as  ye  haue  in  the  said  house  in  such 
man'  as  shalbe  deuised  by  my  Chauncellor  and  Comissary. 


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Notes  from  the  College  Records.  343 

And  I  assure  you  I  haue  so  prouided  for  jou  that  ye  shall 
haue  yerely  viij  marces  eu'y  pace  of  you  during  yo'  liefes 
besides  that  I  shall  be  good  lord  vnto  you  otherwise.  As 
my  said  Chauncellor  and  Comissary  shall  shew  vnto  yon»  to 
whom  I  pray  yon  to  yeve  credence.  At  Royston  the  xv  day 
of  December 

Ja.  Elien. 

Addressed:   To  my  Lorde  of  Rochester  is  good  Lordship. 

My  lord  I  comaunde  Me  vnto  you  in  my  moost  hertie  man^ 
And  according  to  youre  desire  in  your  letters  sent  by  my 
Coinissary  I  haue  endeuo<^ed  myself  for  the  good  and  spedy 
elpedicion  of  the  translacion  of  the  house  of  Saint  Johns 
in  Cambrige  in  to  a  house  of  Secular  Studentes,  and  haue 
had  Maister  Conjmgesby  and  other  of  my  Counsaill  w^me. 
Whereupon  Maister  Conyngesby  hath  made  a  draght  of 
certain  Writinges  which  my  Chapellain  this  berer  shall  shew 
vnto  you  to  whom  It  may  like  you  to  yeue  credence.  My 
lorde  I  wolde  be  as  glad  as  any  lyving  creatur  to  here  of 
yo'  good  amendement  of  yo'  disease  and  sikenes.  Whereof 
I  beseche  o'  lorde  sende  you  good  remedy    At  my  mano'  of 

Hatfielde  the  xzix  day  of  December 

yo'  awne 
Ja:  Elien. 

Addresseed:    To   niy    right    welbiloued   Brethren    of   Saincte 
Jhones  House  in  Cambrige  and  to  eu'y  of  them. 

After  my  special  recomendcions  vnto  you.  I  vnderstand  by 
Master  Barrey  this  berer  ye  be  not  contente  any  studye  or 
labor  shulde  be  made  to  alter  the  condicion  of  yo'  house  in 
to  a  college  of  seculare  prestes  and  scolers  accordinge  to  the 
articles  countes  aduised  and  determined  beytwne  my  Lades 
grce  late  the  Kinges  Grandm  decessed  (Whom  god  pardon) 
And  my  Lord  of  Ely  yo'  patrone  and  ordinarye.  Verayly 
hir  said  grace  of  hir  deuoute  goodly  and  graciouse  mynde 
had  to  the  increse  of  Vertue  and  conjmge  for  the  maintenance 
of  Cristes  faith  and  tender  fauo'  she  had  to  the  vniu'site 
of  Cambrige  Willed  in  her  testamente  that  the  issues  and 
prouffites  of  vj^  markes  of  land  of  hir  inheritance  beinge  in 
feoffment  shuld  be  imployed  and  bestowed  for  creacon  and 


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344  Notes  from  the  College  Records. 

stablisainge  of  the  said  College  w*  a  greate  numbyr  of  students 
therein  [which]  goodly  purpose  and  intente  all  hir  ezecuto's 
labor  dayly  w*  greate  deligence  [to  performe  and]  haue  therein 
oppteyned  the  kinges  licence  and  the  faoorable  assente  of  my 
[said  Lord  your]  patrone.  Trusting  the  said  matter  and 
blessed  entente  breuely  to  take  good  [effect  and  conclusion] 
to  the  vniu'sall  weale  of  the  churche  and  specially  of  the 
vniu'site  of  [Cambrige  which]  standeth  principally  in  the 
increase  of  nubyr  of  good  and  vertuouse  studentes  [and  scolers] 
And  in  case  hir  said  will  and  entente  therein  shulde  not  be 
performed  (as  god  forbyd)  then  the  kinges  grace  will  forthw* 
inter  in  to  the  said  landes  and  receyne  the  hole  prouittes  of 
the  same  to  his  awn  use  for  eu^  Wich  shuldbe  a  meniellose 
greate  hurte  and  losse  to  the  said  vniuersite.  In  consideracon 
whereof  it  is  uerayly  supposed  that  neyther  ye  ne  any  other 
good  person  will  endeuo'  them  to  lett  or  hytider  the  said 
graciouse  purpose.  Assuring  you  that  prouision  is  deuised 
for  yC  sufficient  lifinge  in  as  good  suertie  and  honeste  man' 
as  eu'  ye  had  befon  Whereunto  I  shall  alway  helpe  the 
beste  I  can.  As  ye  may  faythfully  truste.  And  as  the  said 
Maister  Barrey  can  enforme  you  more  at  large,  vnto  whom 
therein  and  in  all  other  the  premisses  I  haue  shewed  my 
mynde  at  lengeth.  Wherefor  I  hertily  pray  yoti  for  the 
cosideracions  aboue  rehersed  to  be  content  w^  the  said 
alteracion  and  fauorably  to  helpe  and  further  the  said  blessed 
intente  and  purpose.  Wich  douthlesse  shall  be  vnto  you  greate 
honestie  and  right  mertoriouse  as  knoweth  o'  lorde  Who  haue 
you  in  his  m'ciful  gou'nance.  At  London  the  xixth  day 
ffebniary 

yo"^  loving  frend 
Hbnry  Hornbt. 


Addressed:  To  my  singular  gode  lorde  my  lord  of  Rochestte. 

My  singuler  gode  lorde  I  comende  me  vnto  you  i  my  right 
humble  and  most  bertie  man^  And  i  like  wyse  thanke  you 
for  yo'  right  lovinge  and  fauorable  lers  wich  I  receyed 
yesterday  after  viij  of  the  clok  by  my  felow  Corwen  yo'  serunt 
this  berer.  And  albeit  I  had  many  grete  letters  by  solenite 
of  the  fest  of  Ascension.  Absence  of  ctain  persones  of 
whom  I  trusted  to  haue  had  ifermacon  and  shortnesse  of 


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tyme  for  reddy  expedicion  of  your  said  seriint  according  to 
yo'  desire  i  yo'  said  Ires,  Thyse  notwithstanding  I  haue 
made  clere  aswer  as  well  as  I  can  to  all  and  eu'y  articles 
comprised  i  yo'  said  Ires  as  in  the  cnificate  of  the  same  wich 
the  said  berer  shall  delye'  vnto  yo'  lordshippe  shall  appere 
at  large:  besechinge  o'  lorde  to  send  you  gode  and  breve 
cxpedicon  of  that  matter.  My  lorde  of  Ely  hath  fermely 
promised  Vnto  me  that  he  will  by  his  ordiaiy  power  vpoii 
ctain  resonable  causes  remoue  the  two  bretbren  of  Saincte 
Johnis  house  i  Cambrige  to  Saincte  Johnis  house  i  Ely.  And 
as  I  am  i  formed  the  said  brethren  haue  said  of  late  that 
they  will  be  ctent  if  they  be  provided  for.  And  what  thinges 
yo'  lordshipp  shall  herein  or  i  any  other  matters  coand  I  shall 
indeuor  me  to  accoplisshe  the  same  to  the  best  of  my  powers 
with  o'  lordes  m'cy  who  haue  you  alwey  i  his  graciouse 
protecion.  At  Cambrige  this  Ascension  day  w*  right  litell 
leasur  scribled  w^  the  simple  hand  of 

yo'  awn  assured  seriint  and  orator 
Henry  Hornby. 


Addressed:  To  the  right  Reu<^ent  ffather  yn  gode  and  my 
syngler  gude  lorde  my  lorde  of  Rochest'  his  gude 
lordshipe. 

My  syngle'  gude  lorde  yn  my  moste  humble  man'  I  comende 
me  vnto  yo'  lordshipe  plase  it  yo'  gude  lordship  I  receyuyd 
my  lord  and  maist'  my  lordd  of  Ely  his  lett's  the  x  day  of 
March  dated  at  his  place  in  Holbo'n  the  viij  day  of  March 
whereyn  I  was  streytly  comaundet  by  his  lordshipe  I  shuld 
remoue  fro  Camb^^ge  vnto  Ely  the  late  felows  of  Saynte  Johis 
bouse  yn  Camb'ge  any  promyse  or  bounde  made  by  any 
man  to  the  cont'y  notwithstandyng.  My  lorde  w.  greate 
difficoltye  and  labo'  as  yo'  lordshipe  will  be  ynformyd  yn 
tyme  to  come  I  haue  accomplisshde  my  said  lordes  coinaundmet 
and  remouyd  the  said  felows  to  Ely.  They  depted  fro  Gamboge 
towarde  Ely  the  xij  day  of  March  at  iiij  of  y«  clokke  at 
aft^oone  by  wat^  My  lorde  I  receyuyd  of  them  the  godes 
of  the  saide  house  beying  present  S'  William  Asshton  Olyu' 
Scales  accordynge  to  an  Inventorye  made  by  my  said  lordes 
comaundmet  yn  the  p'sence  of  Docto'  Wiott  and  Mr  ffothede 
and  pute  them  yn  saue  custodye  vnto  the  tyme  I  haue  otherwise 


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jTL  comaundment.  And  thus  I  besech  lesus  encrede  yo'  hotlo^ 
to  his  pleas'  and  shortly  brynge  yo<^  lordshipe  ynto  o'  parties 
fro  Camb'gc  the  xiij  day  of  March 

By  hym  y*  is  bounde  to  doe  yo'  lordshipe  seruyce. 

Ric.  HBNRISON4 


Addrastd:  To  my  right  welbeloned  Sr  John  Kensam  and 
Sr  Willia  Chandeler  at  Ely  late  brethren  of  Saincte 
Johns  in  Cambrige.    And  to  eith'  of  them< 

Aft'  my  right  speciall  recomendacions  vnto  you.  I  pray 
you  to  be  at  London  vpon  ifryday  at  nighte  nexte  comynge 
accordynge  to  the  comaundment  of  my  lord  of  Canterbury 
sent  vnto  you  by  John  Lam  my  serunt  this  berer  for  suche 
consideracions  as  he  shall  shewe  vnto  you  more  at  large. 
Vnto  whom  I  pray  you  yeue  credence*  Verayly  trustynge 
it  shalbe  to  yo'  speciall  well  and  coforte«  Whervnto  I  shall 
Indeuo'  me  to  the  beste  I  can.  And  to  make  yo'  costes  in 
yo'  said  comynge  to  London  I  sende  you  xx«  for  eu'y  of  you 
vj«  viij<*.  And  thus  eu'  fare  ye  well,  fro  London  the  xxvj  day 
of  May. 

yo'  lovinge- frend 
Hbnrt  Hornby. 


Addressed:    To    my    right    speciall    gode    lord    my    lord    of 
Rochestre. 

My  right  speciall  gode  lord  after  my  due  and  most  hertie 
recomendacons  vnto  yo'  lordshipp  this  present  day  I  receyued 
yo'  right  lovinge  Ires  by  my  felowe  Corwen  yo'  seriint  for  the 
wich  I  right  hertiely  thank  you.  And  am  veray  glad  that  ye 
purpose  to  be  at  Cambrige  to  kepe  my  lades  anniu'sary  and 
that  my  lord  of  Wynchester  and  ye  be  mynded  to  haue  it 
the  day  of  her  decesse  and  truly  I  was  and  am  of  the  same 
opinion  and  minde.  As  Mr  Tomson  the  M'  of  C'stcs  College 
I  suppose  hath  shewed  vnto  yo'  lordshipp  byfor  this  tyme. 
The  vniu'site  shall  haue  knowlege  therof  and  all  other  thinges 
shalbe  prouided  accordinge  to^  yo'  mynde.  And  as  touching 
wytnesses  of  my  lades  will  and  mynde  coc'nynge  Saincte 
Johnis  house  i  Cambrige  ou'  and  above  the  persones  rehersed 
i  yo'  said  Ires  M'  Doctores  Whitstaunce,  Denton  and  Harr- 
ington: wich  at  my  said  lades  request  deuised  the  bill  to  be 


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assigned  by  hir  grce  and  my  lord  of  Ely  can  and  will  testifye 
the  trouthe  if  they  be  requyred.  Also  M^  Cristofer  Midleton 
did  see  and  rede  the  bill  assigned  w^  my  lord  of  Elys  awn 
hande  concemynge  the  counntes  bytwen  my  lady  and  hym 
for  that  matter  at  M'  dean  of  Paules  place.  When  yo'  lordshipp 
desyred  M<^  Whitstaunce  and  hym  to  deuise  a  writinge  to  be 
sealed  by  my  lorde  of  Ely,  and  the  Prior  and  Chapter  of  £ly« 
Also  many  of  the  Quenes  seriintes  wich  then  seriied  my  lady  i 
household  (as  I  haue  desired  this  said  berer  yo'  serunt  to  shew 
vnto  yon)  can  testifie  therein  the  trouthe  Ou'  this  the  bill 
signed  w^  my  lord  of  Elys  hand  of  the  couenntes  betwen  my 
lady  and  hym,  made  i  hir  life  tyme  is  a  gode  withnes  thereof, 
wich  I  send  vnto  you  by  this  berer  at  this  tyme.  Also  the 
kinges  Ires  patentes  and  my  lord  of  Elys  grannte  vnder  his 
seale  and  cofirmed  by  the  Chapto'  seale  euidently  reporte 
my  said  lades  will  and  mynd  i  that  behalfe.  And  thus  I  haue 
shewed  yo'  lordshippe  my  poor  mynde  cocernynge  yo'  demaunde 
i  that  matter.  And  what  shall  please  you  to  comande  me  from 
tyme  to  tyme  I  shall  'indeuo'  me  for  accomplisshment  thereof 
to  the  best  I  can  with  o'  lordes  m'cy  who  haue  yo'  gode 
lordshipp  eu'  1  his  graciouse  protecon  From  Cambrige  the 
xviij  of  luyn  with  the  simple  hand  of 

yo'  awn  serunt  and  orato^ 
Henry  Hornby 


Addressed:   To  the  ryght  reu^'ent  fader  in  god  hys  especyall 
good  lord  my  lord  off  Rocheste's  good  lordshipe, 

Ryght  reu'ende  fad'  in  gode  my  especyall  good  lord  in  my 
most  humble  wyse  I  recomende  me  vnto  yowr  good  lordship 
and  Wher  it  hath  pleasyd  yowr  lordship  off  yowr  good  mynde 
vnto  me  &  by  yowr  good  meanys  to  p»^fer  me  vnto  yowr 
colege  off  San  lohn'is:  it  is  the  thynge  my  good  lorde  that 
passythe  my  lityll  for  me  or  myne  to  recopense  it  vnto  yowr 
lordship;  but  oonly  indeuer  me  to  doo  that  thynge  therein 
(whan  it  cometh  to  passe)  that  shalbe  to  the  honor  off  gode 
furtherance  off  lemynge  and  contentacon  off  yowr  lordshipe 
wherein  I  shall  apply  me  to  the  uttermoste  of  my  power 
w*  the  love  off  gode:  and  as  cocernynge  yowr  comandment 
yevyne  vnto  me  by  this  berer  and  by  yowr  letters  I  haue 
doon  my  dylyges  therein  in  part  as  recevide  the  a  thousand 


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pownde  as  this  berer  kan  certyfy  yowr  lorshipe,  or  heraft'  to 
doo  to  complisse  the  recedewe  off  the  8a3rme.  as  for  the 
Bcolers  for  who  yowr  lordship  is  movyd  to  take  vnto  yowr 
said  colege.  it  is  soo  my  lord  that  S'  John  Weste  is  thought 
most  abyll  off  thos  iii  named  to  yo'  lordsbipe  for  lyncolnshire 
as  for  the  principall  of  Sant  Thomas  Hostell  allthowe  he  be 
competently  lemyd  he  is  no  thing  p'sonabyll.  I  hane  send 
vnto  yo^  lordshipe  herein  closytt  the  namys  of  such  psonis 
as  is  thovght  good  vertuose  &  lemed  and  men  tractabyll.  As 
for  Maist'  Shaas  and  Maist'  Foster  wyll  nott  take  it.  My  lord 
my  daiy  prayer  y«  shall  haue  accordyng  vnto  my  dewty  as 
god  knowyth  whom  I  beseche  p'serve  yow  to  hys  pleasure: 
from  Cambryge  the  vj*  day  off  February 

yowr  daly  orato' 
Robert  Shorton 


Addressed:    To    my    right    speciall    good    lord   my    lord   of 
Rochestre. 

My  speciall  gode  lord  after  my  due  and  full  hertie  recomen- 
dacions  vnto  yo'  lordshipp  sith  my  late  writinges  vnto  you 
the  Maist^  of  Cristes  College  hath  desyred  me  to  pray  y 
lordshipp  that  he  may  recyue  of  you  money  to  finysshe  diu^se 
workes  i  the  said  College  necessary  to  be  don.  the  taryinge 
whereof  is  to  theyr  grete  hurte  and  annojrance.  and  i  likewise 
at  Malton.  where  ctain  reparacons  must  nede&  be  don  (ad 
vpon  hemes  wherein  com  must  nedys  be  putt)  byfore  hervest 
now  at  hand.  And  tmly  I  ctainly  knowe  the  said  necessities 
i  both  places,  and  as  I  perceyue  by  the  said  Maist'  he  hath 
no  money  of  the  Colleges  to  performe  the  p'misses.  Where- 
fore gode  my  lord  I  hertily  beseche  you  to  delyu'  vnto  hym 
such  money  at  this  tyme  for  the  intent  abovesaid  as  ye  shall 
thinke  conuenient.  Ou^  this  Vmfry  Walloote  i  lent  last  past 
as  I  doubt  not  yo'  lordshipp  hath  i  remembraunce  was  at 
Lambeth  ii^  yo'  lordshipp  and  there  by  space  of  vi  or  vij 
dayes  toke  grete  labour  to  make  a  draght  of  all  the  godes 
late  my  lades,  whom  o'  lorde  pardon,  and  he  his  ij  seriintes 
and  iij  horses  taried  i  London  that  season  only  for  that  cause, 
to  his  grete  coste  as  he  affirmeth,  and  as  yet  he  had  no  peny 
neither  for  his  said  costes  ne  labo^  And  veraly  he  hath  also 
taken  this  weke  passed  grete  payn  I  makinge  the  accomptes 


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of  the  said  College.  And  was  w^  the  said  Maist'  at  a  lordshipp 
of  theres  bysides  Lincoln,  wich  as  the  Maist'  reporteth  by 
gode  policy  and  meanes  of  the  said  Vmfry  shalbe  iproved 
yerly  to  the  behove  of  the  same  College  xx»  or  thereaboughtes* 
Wherefor  i  consideracion  of  the  p'misses  I  beseche  you  be 
vnto  hym  gode  lorde  and  to  reward  hjrm  as  ye  shall  thinke 
best.  And  what  sendee  it  shall  like  you  to  comaunde  me 
I  shall  effectually  indeuor  me  for  accomplisshment  thereof  to 
the  best  of  my  litell  power  with  o'  lordes  m'cy  who  have 
yo'  said  gode  lordshipp  allwey  i  his  blessed  gou'naunce. 
Scribled  w*  litell  leas'f  the  xv'^  day  of  Juyn  w*  the  simple 
hande  of 

yo'  lovinge  serunt  and  orator 
Henb,y  Hormbt 


Addressed:  To  the  ryghte  reu'ende  fad'  in  god  hys  especall 
good  lorde  my  lorde  off  Rbchesters  good  lordship. 

{The  beginning  of  this  letter  is  torn,) 

We  may  haue  I  thynke  wood.... to  vs  suflfycyently  to  seruc 
for  bumynge  off  bryke  ffor  this  yere  yff  we  may  by  a  grose 
of  Maist'  Swthwell  whyche  is  in  Cotton,  hys  seniand  sayth 
y^  he  wyll  fell  it  &  that  we  shall  haue  it  befor  any  other,  as 
Maist<^  Hornby  can  schew  yowr  lordship.  We  haue  sent  Swana 
the  mason  ffor  slatt  &  frestone  &  takyn  to  hym  x^'  to  make 
barganys  for  it.  My  lord  no  off  thes  barganys  had  beyn 
made  w^out  I  had  schewed  bothe  to  Maist'  Hornby  &  to 
Maist'  ffothede  that  I  had  mony  &  so  I  was  in  maner  com- 
pellytt  to  schew  them  y*  I  hade  mony.  Maist'  Hornby  was 
veiy  Inquysytyve  off  me  whan  it  cay  &  be  whom.  I  schewytt 
hym  y*  it  cay  be  on  off  yowr  lordshipes  seruands  bott  I  knew 
nott  hys  naym.  My  lord  Maist^  Hornby  is  myndyt  to  haue 
Scales  maist'  of  the  workes.  Whych  I  thynk  wold  be  dilygent 
for  the  tym  off  hys  presens  In  the  town,  bott  I  ihynke  verely 
he  hath  so  mony  matyrs  &  so  grett  besynes  that  he  may 
nott  att  all  tymys  be  p'sent.  Whych  must  nedys  be  yff  the 
workes  shuld  go  well  forwart.  Wherfor  aft'  my  power  mynde 
savyng  yowr  lordshipes  bett'  avyys  provycyon  must  be  made 
tQ  haue  oon  prest  whych  wyll  diligently  apply  it  Sc  cotynually 
be  p'sent.  My  lord  What  that  I  can  do  in  thes  thyngesi 
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or  in  any  other  thynges  cocemyng  the  sayme  I  shalbe  att  all 
tym3r8  redy  &  yowr  lordship  shall  haue  my  daly  praer  acording 
to  my  dewty  as  god  knowyth  Who  eu'  preserue  yowr  lordship. 
From  Caml)iyg  the  xij  day  of  February 

yowr  daly  orator 
llOBT.  Shorton 


Addmsid:   To    my    right    speciall    gode    lord    my    lord   of 
Rochester. 

My  right  speciall  gode  lord  I  comannde  me  vnto  you  i  my 
most  hertie  manner.  And  i  like  wyse  thank  you  for  yo' 
lovinge  Ires  wich  I  late  receyued  by  my  felow  Corwen  yo' 
serunt.  Whereby  I  perceyue  ye  be  appoynted  by  the  kinges 
comaundment  to  repayre  you  breuely  towardes  Rome.  In 
wich  iomey  I  beseche  o'  lorde  to  send  you  gode  and  prosperose 
passage  and  retome.  And  as  touchinge  yo'  desyr  to  haue 
Henry  Dey  my  serunte  to  seme  you  i  yo'  said  Iomey:  truly 
I  myght  better  spare  all  my  other  seruntes  than  hym  for  he 
receyueth  all  such  money  as  is  due  vnto  me  from  tyme  to 
^me  and  makys  all  my  reconynges  and  paymentes  and  is 
right  trew  and  wyse  and  diligent  and  can  do  right  gode 
and  honest  seraice.  Notwithstandinge  if  he  were  moche 
better  than  he  is,  he  and  any  other  thinge  that  I  haue 
shalbe  allway  redy  at  yo'  comaundment.  And  upon  Wednesday 
next  coinge  I  and  he  shall  god  willing  be  with  yow  at  Lambeth. 
And  then  bring  w^me  a  geldinge  of  myn  on  of  the  best  and 
surest  that  I  haue.  Wich  I  shall  leve  vnto  yo^  lordshipp 
-to  here  my  said  serunt.  Veraily  tmstinge  that  he  sh^ll  do  you 
gode  seraice,  he  is  suer  of  labor  and  fajT,  I  haue  no  moo 
but  other  four  abill  to  labo<^  such  a  Iomey  at  this  tyme  as 
I  haue  p'yed  the  M'  of  Saincte  Johnis  to  shewe  vnto  yo' 
lordship  at  length.  Wich  with  Olue'  Scales  cometh  at  this 
tyme  vnto  you.  With  theyr  bookes  to  make  theyr  reconynges 
"vnto  you.  Ctainly  after  my  knowledge  they  both  haue 
endeuored  them  right  diligently  to  theyr  grete  payne  and 
labors.  ••  .police  and  wisdom  prouiffitably  to  spede  the 
bildinges  and  workes  of  Saincte  Johns  College  and  all  other 
causes  apperteinynge  vnto  the  same.  Not.... if  they  haue 
money  sufficiet :  all  the  said  billdinges  shalbe  (god  willinge). . .  • 
aft'  Michaelmas  next  coinge  as  they  can  enformeyo'said.... 


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More  ^t  large.  Crete  pitie  it  were  that  nowe  the  same  should 
be....i  any  wyse  delayed.  Wherefore  gode  my  lorde  prouide 
after  yo'. . .  .that  they  shall  not  want  any  thinge  necessary  to 
the,...expedicion  of  the  szdd  bildinges.  And  what  I  can  or 
may  do,. ..thereof  shalbe  at  all  seasons  redy  to  the  best  of 
my  power. ...verayly  trust  with  o'  lordes  m'cy.  Who  haue 
jou  my.,..i  his  graciouse  pteccion.  fifrom  Cambrige  the 
zxij^. « .  .the  simple  hand  of 

yo<^  awti  prest  and  seriint 
Henry  Hornby. 

tn  the  last  letter  it  will  be  noticed  that  reference 
is  made  to  Fisher's  journey  to  Rome.  This  enables 
us  approximately  to  fix  its  date.  For  in  15 12  Fisher 
and  others  were  appointed  special  ambassadors  from 
Henry  VIII  to  attend  the  fifth  Lateran  Council 
summoned  by  Pope  Julius  to  meet  in  April  of  that 
year.  The  Commission  was  revoked  and  others  sent. 
But  Fisher's  appointment  was  again  renewed  in  15 15, 
and  though  in  the  end  he  does  not  seem  to  have 
proceeded  to  Rome  he  appointed  in  that  year  Richard 
Chetham,  Prior  of  Ledes  in  Kent,  and  another  to  be 
his  proctors  to  transact  episcopal  business  during 
his  absence.  To  this  period  the  two  letters  which 
follow  most  probably  belong.  It  looks  as  if  Chetham 
Was  procuring  foreign  money  for  the  journey. 

Addressed:  To  my  lord  of  Rochesters  good  lordeship. 

Mjm  awn  singler  good  lorde  in  my  mooste  hertiest  man'  I 
eoinaunde  me  vnto  your  good  lordeship  And  forasmoche  as 
I  am  enfo'^med  that  now  shortely  ye  god  willing  goo  into 
far  parties  by  yonde  the  Sea  as  the  Kinges  Ambassed'  in  which 
Jo'nay  I  shall  pray  to  o'  lorde  send  you  prosperious  helth 
and  good  spede.  I  must  beseche  your  lordeship  to  be  soo 
good  lorde  vnto  me  as  to  haiie  me  in  yo'  remebraunce 
cocemynge  thobligacions  wherein  I  was  bounden  vnto  my 
ladies  grace  whose  soule  Jhu  pardon.  And  that  it  wolde 
please  you  to  let  me  haue  theym  at  this  season  by  my  Comis* 
saiy  this  berer  Whereby  ye  shall  bynde  me  to  owe  you  suche 
pleas'  as  may  lye  in  me  to  the  vttermost  of  my  power  during 


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my  lief.  And  further  my  lorde  I  mooste  hertely  thank  you 
that  it  hath  pleased  you  to  be  soo  good  lorde  vnto  me  in 
my  great  matier  of  restitucion  Which  I  pray  god  I  may 
desenie  vnto  you.  My  lorde  I  haue  bene  bolde  to  put  you 
in  a  procuracye  w*  my  lorde  of  Wynchestcr  and  my  lorde  of 
Norwich  to  be  for  me  at  this  couocacion  as  and  if  I  were 
there  my  self  wherein  I  must  hertely  pray  you  to  take  payne 
and  make  aunswer  for  me  in  all  causes  as  well  coceiyg  me> 
if  Doctor  Robynson  wolde  make  any  busines,  as  in  all  other 
causes  which  shall  be  comoned  of  these  And  ye  shalbe  assured 
of  me  at  yc  comaundement  As  o'  lorde  know^  who  send  you 
long  well  to  fare    A  Som'sham  the  fytst  day  of  February 

yo^s  eunnore 
Ja:  £libn« 


Addressed:  To  the  Singler  good  Lorde  my  Lord  of  Rochestef^ 

My  lord  I  haue  been  at  ffrystoball  and  Lowes  la  fifauo'  ys 
banke  to  know  the  best  man'  of  Change  and  their  they  hold 
a  dukette  large  at  iiij*.  viij^.  And  a  dukette  de  Cama'  at 
iiij*.  vij<*.  but  I  thynke  they  wyll  abate  ob  in  the  dukett.  On 
of  the  shewed  me  he  had  ben  w*  you.  Ther  is  anodre  y*  wyll 
delyu'  a  duket  large  for  iiij*.  vij<*.  And  de  Cama'  for  iiij*.  v*. 
ob.  And  it  pleys  you  to  comand  me  at  yo'  pleasure  when 
I  shal  come  to  you  and  w*  Mr  Metcalfe  to  write  yo'  stuffe. 
I  trust  now  I  shall  shewe  yo'  lordshippe  where  it  may  be 
well  and  save 

By  yo'  owen  subiect  the 
pryo'  of  Ledes. 


Rochester  being  on  the  high  road  from  Dover  to 
London,  the  Bishop  had  his  full  share  of  state 
pageantry.  The  following  letter  from  the  Council 
belongs  to  the  year  15 14. 

Addressed:  To  my  Lorde  of  Rochestr. 

My  Lorde  we  coinende  vs  vnto  you  in  o'  herty  maner  So  it 
is  the  kinges  grace  hath  knowlege  that  an  ambassado'  sent 
from  the  poopes  holynes  to  his  grace  w^  a  sworde  and  cap  of 
mayntehnce  is  comen  to  Calais  and  intendith  to  take  shipping 
to  arrive  at  Dovo'  Wherupon  it  is  appointed  that  the  p»^  of 


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cH steschurche  of  Canterbury  shal  mete  w^  the  said  ambassador 
beyonde  Canterbury  and  so  to  entertayn  hym  in  his  house 
and  afterwarde  vpon  monycion  to  be  geven  to  hym  shal 
conduyte  hym  to  some  place  conuenient  betwene  Sitingborne 
and  Rochester  Where  the  king  hath  appointed  that  your 
Lordship  the  Mr  of  the  rolles  and  Sir  Thomas  Boleyn  shal 
mete  w*  hym  and  so  conduyte  hym  to  London.  Wherefore 
the  kinges  gee  Tvilleth  and  desireth  you  that  after  the  komyng  to 
Rochester  of  the  said  Mr  of  the  rolles  and  Sir  Thomas  Boleyn 
and  knowledge  by  yon  had  of  the  arrival  of  the  said 
ambassador  at  Canterbury  ye  then  geue  knowlege  to  the  said 
p'o'  of  Cristeschurche  when  ye  shalbe  in  redynes  to  receyue 
the  said  ambassador  So  that  he  may  accompanye  hym  to  thel 
place  betwene  you  to  be  appointed  accordingly  and  thereupon 
ye  wol  enterta3me  the  said  ambassado'  and  so  to  conduyte 
hym  to  London  as  is  aforesaid  And  in  case  ye  be  not  nowe 
at  Rochestr  ye  wol  vpoti  knowlege  herof  repaire  thider  where 
the  Mr  of  the  rolles  and  Sir  Thorns  Boleyn  shal  be  w*  you 
accordingly  And  we  present  yo'  lordship  at  Bayn'd  Caste! 
the  xij*^  day  of  may, 

T.  Norfolk,  R.  Dorsett,  Ri.  Winton,  T.  Duresme. 

Besides  this  the  two  documents  which  follow  refer 
to  like  ceremonies. 

To  convaye  and  bringe  to  Westminster  on  thursdaie  next 
comyng  be  ix  of  the  clok  afore  none  unto  the  quere  wher 
there's  made  redy  a  place  for  these  ambassadors  folowing  is 
appointed  this  busshop  lordes  and  knight  ensueing. 

ffurst  for  the  popes  ambassado' — the  busshop  of  Rochester 
flfor  the  ambassado'  of  ffrance — my  lord  of  Sent  Jones 
ffor  the  ambassador  of  Spayne — my  lord  Barneys 
ffor  the  ambassador  ofVenyse — Sr  Edward  Howard. 


The  names  of  the  Lordes  and  oother  that 
shall  receyve  thempero's  ambassadors  at 
Dovo'  and  to  covey  theym  to  Dertford. 

ffyrsttheBysshopofRochestre  |  ^t  the  Lorde  Bargheny 
And  the  Lorde  of  Seynt  Jhones  ; 

Sir  Gilbt  Talbot—  w*  the  Governor  of  Brest 

Sir  Edward  Ponynges-*  w*  Doctor  Plough 

Docto'  West—  w*  the  President. 


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354  Noies  front  the  College  Records. 

For  the  metyng  which  shalbe  on  the. . . .  atid 
to  covey  theym  to  the  lodgynges. 

fiyrst  the  Lorde  Stewarde        j  _^,  ^^^  Lo^^^  Bargheny. 

And  the  Bdsshop  of  Worcest' ) 

The  Bysshop  of  Rochest'        |  ^^,  ^j^^  Gon'no'. . . . 

and  my  Lord  of  Seynt  Johnes ) 

Sir  Gilbt  Talbot         j  _  ^.  j^^^^  p,^^  ^ 

and  maistr  Fonynges ) 

Maist'  Brandon —  w*  the  President 

Docto'  West —  w*  the  Frovost. 

The  following  letter  froiti  Sir  George  NeViU  third 
Lord  Bergavenny  seems  to  shew  that  the  good  Bishop 
occasionally  found  time  for  field  sports^ 

Addressed:  To  my  good  lord  of  Rochesf  his  good  lordshijp. 

My  lord  in  my  right  hertie  mciner  I  recomaunde  me  vnto 
your  good  Lordship.  And  in  like  wise  thanke  you  for  your 
kynde  remembraunce  and  samond  sent  vnto  me  at  thys  tyme 
which..,, good  &  right  deynty  in  this  hethe  contrey.... 
Lordship  giveth  me  thanks  for  the  poor  venyson.  ...my  Lord 
I  desyre  not  somoche  therefor.  But  if  suche  game  as  I  have 
in  those  pties  may  do  you  pleasy'  It  may  please  you  to  send 
to  the  keper  and  he  shal  hunt  for  you  at  suche  tyme  as  ye 
shal  geve  hym  in  coinaundment  Or  ells  if  it  shal  please  you 
to  se  youre  greyhounds  run  at  any  tyme  either  wMn  or  w*out 
I  haue  comaunded  my  keper  to  geue  you  attendance  &  make 
you  suche  dispoort  as  if  I  wer  there  present  which  I  beseech 
you  to  take  when  it  shal  best  like  you. 

Also  please  it  your  good  lordship  to  vnderstand  that  my  lord 
Chancello'  &  the  chief  Justice  w*  other  Justices  of  the  peas 
nowe  at  Canterbury  haue  determyned  for  the  levying  of  the 
kinges  subcidie  and  devided  the  lathes  of  the  shire  among 
which  they  haue  devided  to  yo'  good  lordship  my  lord  Cobham 
and  me  w*  others  iustices  of  the  peas  the  lathe  of  Ayllisford 
wheiyn  be  xv  hundredes.  Sith  that  tyme  dyuerse  of  the 
Justices  haue  been  w^  me  and  it  is  determined  among  vs  if 
your  lordship  be  so  pleased  to  foUowe  suche  direction  as 
my  lord  of  Canterbury  hath  taken  Or  otherwise  as  yo*"  lordship 
shal  thynk  good.  And  to  thentent  yo'  lordship  shuld  more 
perfectly  vnderstand  the  said  direction  by  vs  taken  I  haue 


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written  to  Edward  Colepeper  to  give  his  attendance  vpon 
your  good  lordship  for  the  ascerteynjmg  you  of  the  same  and 
I  trust  shortly  to  be  in  those  parties  and  geve  myne  attendance 
vpon  yo'  lordship  my  self  by  grace  of  Jhu  Who  ever  preserve 
you  fron^  my  lodge  of  Erige  this  present  friday  by 

your  assured 
G.  Bergavenny. 

The  two  letters  which  follow  shew  the  Bishop 
as  the  man  of  letters  and  the  Chancellor  of  the 
University.  Fothede  succeeded  Fisher  as  Master  of 
Michael  House  in  1505.  Rotheram  College  was 
founded  by  Thomas  Scott  alias  Rotheram  in  1481 
for  a  Provost,  five  priests,  six  choristers,  and  three 
masters  of  grammar,  music,  and  writing.  The  statutes 
of  the  College  are  said  by  Dugdale  to  be  in  the 
Treasm-y  of  Sidney  Sussex  College. 

Addressed:  To  my  singler  good  lord  of  Rochest'. 

Right  honorable  and  my  singler  good  lord  I  recomaund  me 
vnto  yo'  lordshype  thynkyng  very  longe  for  yo'^  lordshyp 
by  cause  of  Saynt  Johns  House.  I  beseche  o'  lord  send  it 
a  good  end.  My  lord  of  late  Maist.  Robert  Cutler  Provost 
of  Rotheram  was  w'  me.  He  clamyth  not  w*  stondying  his 
promocion  to  continue  felow  w*  us  saying  that  it  is  not  worth 
to  hy  Cs.  by  the  yer,  verely  he  was  instituted  to  thole  valor 
of  his  provostrye  And  he  in  possession  by  the  license  of  the 
bushop  graunted  a  pesion  of  X//  owt  of  his  lyuelod.  For 
vnto  that  he  was  in  possession  he  coulde  not  graunte  it.  And 
so  that  possession  w*  hys  owne  gift  avoydethe  hy  of  o*"  felow- 
shjT)  as  me  seemeth.  For  by  our  Statute  if  he  be  promoted 
to  the  valor  of  Cs.  he  shuld  assese  of  o*^  funders  exhibicion. 
In  good  faith  my  lord  I  could  be  as  well  content  w*  M'  Cutler 
for  hy  self  as  w*  any  man  hot  if  that  p''sident  of  promoted 
men  shuld  ent'  in  to  o'  place  I  thynke  0'  place  shuld  shortly 
cum  to  nowght  for  he  is  bownden  to  tary  at  hys  College 
half  y«  yeyr.  And  in  o*"  College  si  in  eadem  demo  siudere 
neglexerit  dum  potens  fueril  ad  siudendum  aut  remissus  notahiliter 
extiterit  cesset  tunc  omnino  ejus  persona  exhibitionem  domo  predicia 
ita  quod  nichil  inde  percipiat  in  futurum  haec  sunt  verba  staiutorum 
ultra  alia   ut  satis  noverit  dominaiio  vestra.     And  not  only  in 


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him  bot  in  all  other  that  shall  take  example  hereof  it  shalbe 
greet  hynderaunce  of  lernyng  dekey  of  o'  seruice  And  few 
or  none  to  tary  at  home  to  pray  for  our  founder  and  to  kepe 
his  messes.  My  lord  I  beseche  yo*^  lordship  to  loke  well  of 
thys  matt',  for  if  it  shuld  passe  it  shuld  be  a  mat'  of  greet 
conscience  and  likely  destruction  of  o'  poor  house.  For  I 
dowt  not  but  meny  walbe  glad  to  take  a  benefice  and  to 
geve  a  pension  so  that  he  may  haue  a  rowme  of  a  felow 
still.  The  whiche  I  am  well  assured  was  neu'  o'  founders 
m'yn.  He  saith  he  wilbe  ruled  by  yo'  lordship.  I  wer  loth 
the  place  shuldbe  put  to  trowble.  Seqse  lente  he  had  non 
advantage  therof  nor  now  shalhaue  to  that  I  her  yo'  lordshypes 
pleaso'.  And  thus  o'  lord  haue  you  eu'  in  his  blessed  kepyng 
scribled  in  yo'  College  of  Saynt  Mighill  the  vj*^  day  of 
Nouember  w*  thand  of  yo'  prest  and  bedman 

John  Fothed 


Addressed:  R^®  ac  prestawti  in  Chr®  Pa/ri  ac  ^ommo  D.  Jo. 
Roffenn'.    Epiirc^po  domino  meo  colendiss. 

In  Anglia. 

Accepi  hodie  hV/nas  a  Thoma  Porto  qtft'bus  uerbis  tuis  mihi 
iussit  ut  indagarcm  si  apud  bibliopolas  com^enxQn\.ur  carto»es 
Jo.  Aniani  viterbienstr  sup^r  uniuersa  sacra  scriptura.  Collustro 
illico  fere  om^es  et  tantum  Antiqc^i'tates  eius  inuenio  parisii 
impressas  ubi  (si  quae  alia  eius  uolumina  extant)  inueniri 
autuma/ft.  Non  tamea  Aniani  sed  Jo.  Anii  inscriptio  est. 
Si  post  hac  theologiaxri  eius  inuenero;  D.  tua/«  R^^r^da^ 
et  certiorem  facia/n  et  in  Siduentam  Xunm  servari  curabo.  Mnnus 
tuum  iam  dudu;;>  accepi  et  gr^iarum  tibi  lf'//^ras  co»scripsi 
que  (ut  ?  co»scriptae  sunt)  in  hoc  cardi»e  uertunt»r  ut  sic  ob 
tarn  memorabilem  in  me  benig^/tatem  tuam  fidem  coxrsta^tiam 
offfdum,  omnem  deniq^^  op^ram  meam  tibi  antea  semper 
destinata^Tx  iam  et  uoueam  et  co^servem.  Vale. 
Roma  octa<>  Idus  Junii 

Nihil  gratius  ex  Anglia  hue  feres  quam  anulos  a  Rege  sacratos 
mimm  in  modu/n  hie  et  a  Magnatibtf^  expetu/ft^r. 

Addictus  Tuus 
Jo:  Renatus 


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I  have  as  yet  found  only  one  letter  written  by 
Fisher  himself.  It  appears  to  be  written  to  a  bishop, 
perhaps  the  Bishop  of  Winchester,  on  some  matter 
relating  to  the  Lady  Margaret's  estate.  The  letter  is 
torn  and  the  words  in  brackets  are  only  conjectural. 

Nu»c  pater  si  non  a[?diuer]is  (\uam  primu»i  vereor  ne  res 
domine  nostre  tui  am[?  antissime]  magnam  iacturam  acceptura 
sit.  Sic  sane  [?aliquib]us  elapsis  diebus  misi  quemdam  ad 
Compton  qui  [  ]  satis  vicinus  est.  lUum  oraui  ut  curaret 
[?litteras]  quasdam  in  causa  domine  manu  Regia  assigna[?ri}. 
Quod  et  recepit  facile  se  factum/^.  Sed  quu;n  vetus  exemplar 
eanxm  non  satis  responderet,  immo  discreparet  no»  nichil,  vt 
pote  per  ZMvamzm  sex  librarum,  Id  vbi  Regia  maiestas  inteU 
lex/rit,  noluit  apponere  manu/n.  Quamobrem  nisi  tua  patemitas 
o^em  tulerity  in  hac  re  desperamus  penitus.  Misi  igitur 
ambas  litteras  dominacioni  tue  ut  p^rspicere  posses  vnde  sit 
natus  hie  error.  Non  enim  exspectamus  ex  eis  plures  patentes 
litteras  ex  hanaperis  <\uain  tres  quas  et  Rex  ipse  ab  initio 
promisit  ut  constare  potest  sua  manu.  Error  itaqu^  si  quis 
fuerit,  in  nobis  certe  non  est  sed  in  'Ei^iscopo  Dunelmensi 
solum,  cuius  iussu  littere  priores  confecte  sunt.  Tua  patemitas 
feliz  valeat.    £x  J^mhethe 

Jo.   ROF¥£NS/S. 


Note.— Contarini  Paleologus  p.  142. 

Our  Sub-librarian,  Mr  Sayle,  inserted  a  *  Query  *  in  Notes  and  Queries, 
as  to  the  identity  of  this  nobleman.  Mr  Thos.  H.  Baker»  writing  from 
Mere  Down,  Mere,  Wilts,  replies  as  follows  {Notes  and  Queries,  Ser.  7,  X. 
Sep-  2;,  1890)  : 

"In  the  churchwardens'  accounts  of  the  parish  of  Mere,  amongst  the 
payments  to  briefs  &c  ,  in  the  year  1622/3  is  the  following  entry  « To  Contarini 
Paleologo  at  two  sev'all  collec'cons  iiijs/  From  this  it  would  appear  that 
a  collection  was  made  for  him  throughout  the  country." 

R.  F.  S. 


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THE  FIRST  ATHLETIC  SPORTS  IN  CAMBRIDGE. 

^THLETIC  Sports  were  formally  introduced  into 
the  University  of  Cambridge  in  the  year  1855. 
If  it  be  asked,  "  what  brought  them  ? "  the 
answer  is  this:  In  that  year  the  late  Prince  Consort 
visited  Cambridge,  as  its  Chancellor,  and  some  Johnian 
Undergraduates,  while  waiting  about  to  give  him  a 
welcome,  indulged  in  foot-racing  in  their  College 
grounds.  The  winner,  speaking  perhaps  a  little  too 
boastfully  of  his  success,  was  challenged  and  beaten 
next  day  by  a  member  of  the  College.  Rumours 
of  this  spread  beyond  the  College  walls,  and  a  few 
days  later  on  the  Johnian  was  invited  to  try  conclusions 
with  a  Trinity  man  who  enjoyed  a  reputation  for 
great  pace.  The  two  met  in  a  hundred  yards'  spin 
in  the  Trinity  backs,  and  the  Johnian  won.  St  John's 
now  got  up  what  was  facetiously  called  a  "Johnian 
Derby,"  to  be  held  on  Fenner's  ground.  A  programme 
of  "Events"  was  drawn  up.  Entries  (limited  to  the 
College)  were  invited,  and  competitors  were  soon 
forthcoming  and  in  training.  This  programme 
consisted  of 

(i)  A  Flat  race  of  100  yards,  for  which  there  were 
32  entries  (run  in  5  heats:  the  ist  of  16  pairs,  the 
?nd  of  8,  and  so  on,  the  5th  heat  being  the  "  Final "). 

(2)  Throwing  the  Cricket  Ball. 

(3)  A  Hurdle  race,  200  yards,  13  flights,  for  which 
there  were  12  entries  (run  in  3  heats  of  4  each  heat, 
with  a  final  heat  for  the  3  previous  winners). 

(4)  Sixteen  Hops.       (5)    Putting  Stone  (14  lbs). 
(6)    High  Jump.    (7)  Long  Jump.    (8)    Mile  Race. 


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The  Sports  took  place  on  Fenner's  Ground  on  the 
afternoons  of  the  19th  and  20th  November  1855  J 
and  the  winners  of  the  several  events  were 

Event  I — ^Jackson. 
2— Gilston. 
3 — Harkness. 

4 — M^Cormick*  {cleared  5 1  yards), 
5 — Williams. 

6 — M^Cormick  and  Lawrance  {a  He). 
7 — Sykes. 
8 — Fisher  (14  started). 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  some  "impromptu"  lines 
written  for  the  occasion  by  a  member  of  the  College, 
an  imaginary  betting  list  accompanying  his  verses : — 

The  Johnian  Derby. 

I've  something  nt)w  to  tell  you,  Sir, 

I've  something  to  tell  you: 
*Tis  all  about  the  Derby,  Sir, 

For  Wednesday  at  two. 

The  Derby  do  you  cry.  Sir, 

The  Derby  do  you  say? 
Aye!  Epsom  Downs  have  come.  Sir, 

At  the  'Varsity  to  stay. 

The  sun  sees  no  new  thing,  good  Sir, 

So  pray  do  not  complain: 
For  did  not  Birnam  wood,  good  Sir, 

Once  go  to  Dunsinane? 

I'll  promise  you  good  sport.  Sir, 

Of  every  kind.    They'll  run 
The  hundred  yards,  as  lightning,  Sir, 

Just  greased,  to.  help  the  fun. 

*  Now  Vicar  of  Qull  and  Canon  of  York. 


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The  mile,  the  Malt  and  "  Hops,"  Sir, 
With  which  to  wash  it  down : 

And  e'en  encased  in  Sacks,  Sir, 
They'll  stumble  on  a  Crown. 

All  these  and  many  more,  Sir, 
Of  our  old  English  sports, 

Will  draw  a  "wapping"  lot,  Sir, 
Within  great  Fenner's  Courts. 

Here  is  a  list  of  all,  Sir, 
The  "  running  horses  "  then  ; 

With  all  the  latest  odds.  Sir, 
Upon  the  leading  ten. 

And  if  you'll  back  my  tip.  Sir, 

1000 — I  you'll  get: 
For  certain  'tis,  the  winner.  Sir, 

Will  be  the  "Johnian  pet." 

Latest  Betting. 
Hundred  Yards  Race^ 
Even  on  Lord  John.* 
3—2  against  Tony  Lumpkin. f 


4-1      . 

,      The  Niggert  (by  Dred  out  of  Master  of  Maudlin) 

10- 1 

,      The  Ditton  Publican. 

12— I 

„      Frosty  Headed  B. 

iS-i 

,      Blue  Peter. 

30-1 

,y      La  Maison  Blanche. 

SO- 1      , 

,      Judas  (not  Iscariot).** 

100— I 

,      Bombastes  Whiskeroso. 

1000— I 

,      The  Johnian  Pet. 

Mile  Race, 
Even  on  "  The  Bishop  of  Roff,  1754.* 
3  —2  against  The  Freshman. 
2—1      „      Powder  and  Shot 
10— I      „      Out  of  the  Camp  {;uide  Livy).f  t 
By  Electric  Telegraph.    5—4  against  Welsh  Rabbit.^ 

*  John  Russell  Jackson. 

t  Anthony  Wilkinson.        ' 

X  Nigel  Neville. 
••  Williams, 
tt  D.  De  Castro. 
\X  O.  J.  Owen. 


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Hurdle  Rau. 
2—1  against  Harkaway.* 
3—1       „      Balstrode's  Co. 
4—1       „       What-now  !  (out  of  Gymnasium). 
10— I       ,,       y}<mpo^, 
1000 -I      „      Chaw'd  up. 

Thus  the  19th  November  1855  is  the  birthday,  and 
St  John's  College  is  the  birth-place  of  Athletic  Sports 
in  the  University  of  Cambridge.  This  College  held 
its  second  meeting  in  1856;  and  other  colleges  held 
their  first.  In  this  same  year  *^ University  Sports" 
were  promoted  and  held.  Nor  had  Cambridge  long 
to  wait  for  a  worthy  rival,  for  Oxford  was  soon  busy 
on  similar  lines,  and  in  due  course  matters  ripened 
.  for  those  popular  inter-university  meetings  at  Lillie- 
bridge  or  the  Queen's  Club,  which  assist  in  giving 
healthful  exercise  and  pleasure  to  so  many,  year  by 
year. 

J.  R-  J. 

,  ♦  J.  C.  Harkness. 


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AS  FOR  SUCH  AS  BE  OF  RIPER  YEARS." 


^^VEN  readers  of  the  Eagle  are  sufficiently  familiar 
1^^  with  the  attempt  of  an  enterprising  firm  of 
publishers  to  reduce  all  human  wisdom  to  the 
form  of  a  compendium,  and  so  to  fulfil  the  desire  of 
a  restless  eye  that  searches  for  knowledge  as  for 
hid  treasure.  CasselV  s  Popular  Educator  satisfies  the 
hungry  soul,  but  we  should  find  ourselves  in  error  if 
we  assumed  that  the  need  the  Popular  Educator 
supplies  is  peculiar  to  the  Victorian  age.  The  literary 
ghoul  who  haunts  second-hand  bookshops,  and  digs 
in  the  *  twopenny  tray,'  would  be  able  to  introduce 
us  to  an  Educator  nearly  two  centuries  older  than 
the  one  we  know,  dating  back  to  the  dim  unlighted 
days,  6ven  before  the  founding  of  the  great  house  of 
Cassell  itself. 

The  Young  Maris  Companion  was  prepared  by  one 
William  Mather,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1710.  History 
is  silent  concerning  his  character,  and  he  does  not 
appear  to  have  written  any  other  books.  The  biblio- 
graphers know  nothing  of  him  except  that  his  volume 
is  1 2  mo.  and  that  it  discourses  of  the  principles  of 
Arithmetic,  ETC.  It  is  with  the  ETC.  that  we  axe 
chiefly  concerned.  The  work  of  this  unknown  author, 
arithmetic  and  all,  is  of  modest  dimensions  (some 
470  small  pages),  but  it  gathers  within  its  compass 
all  that  a  young  man  of  those  days  could  with  any 
decency    desire    to    know,    from    the    *  preserving    of 


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Barberries'  and  the  'pickling  of  Walnuts'  to  Troy 
Weight  and  Te  Deum  Laudamus.  The  author  himself 
claims  in  his  preface  that  his  book  is  *  useful  to  all 
persons,  but  more  especially  to  Accomptants,  Writing- 
Masters,  Surveyors,  Masons,  Carpenters,  Bricklayers, 
Plaisterers,  Glasiers,  Gardeners  &c.,'  that  it  educates 
youth  in  the  knowledge  and  love  of  Religion,  that 
the  perusal  of  it  is  *for  the  good  of  Soul  and  Body,' 
and  that  it  treats  exhaustively  *  Measuring,  and  Gunter's 
Line.'  Instructions  for  *  extinguishing  a  Chimney  on 
fire'  are  to  be  found  within  easy  distance  of  the 
*  Weights  and  Measures  mention'd  in  Holy  Scriptures,' 
and  from  *  the  Globe  of  the  Earth  with  remarks  upon  it ' 
we  speedily  pass  to  a  dissertation  upon  *  Marmalade 
of  Quinces.' 

As  many  of  us,  in  spite  of  the  Popular  Educator^ 
do  not  possess  an  adequate  knowledge  concerning 
Marmalade  of  Quinces,  and  as  the  good  Mather's 
work  is  daily  becoming  rarer,  the  writer  of  this  paper 
ventures  to  make  a  few  selections  from  his  collected 
wisdom  for  the  benefit  of  the  *  sober  Young  Man' 
who  reads  his  Eagle  regularly,  and  subscribes  for  it 
on  the  five  years'  system. 

From  the  preface,  which  is  full  of  miscellaneous 
precepts,  we  glean  sound  advice  concerning  methods 
of  study.  With  a  prophetic  appreciation  of  the  value 
of  our  lecture  system,  our  author  writes : — *  Young 
Man,  Read  or  Study  not  above  one  Hour  at  a  Time, 
and  then  walk  or  work  in  a  Garden  (Man's  first 
healthful  Employment,  Genesis  2.  15)  another  Hour 
of  some  stirring  Exercise  of  Body  (as  thy  Time  will 
admit)  and  when  thou  art  weary,  sit  down  to  Read 
(which  may  be  called  Rest)  not  leaning  thy  Breast 
against  a  Table  (for  that  may  occasion  a  Consumption) 
and  then  thy  Faculties  will  be  fresh,  and  thou  may'st 
study  another  Hour  with  Delight.' 

Having  unburdened  his  liiind  of  this  exhortation, 
our  Author  plunges  at  once  with  a  clear  Conscience 


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in  medias  res.  Since  among  children  '  there  is  scarce- 
One  in  Twenty  that  writes  tolerable  English;  and 
this  Defect  is  to  be  found  amongst  Persons  of  Either 
Sex,  as  well  those  who  are  descended  from  wealthy- 
Parents,  and  are  of  good  Parts,  as  others  of  meaner 
Birth;  who,  notwithstanding  many  of  them  can  write 
good  Sense,  and  a  fair  Hand,  yet  oftentimes  commit 
such  Errors  in  Spelling  as  exposes  them  to  the 
Laughter  and  Derision  of  others,  and  so  makes  them 
ashamed  to  express  their  Minds  in  Writing,  to  the 
great  Prejudice  of  their  Affairs ;  to  Accommodate  such, 
I  have,*  says  our  author,  *  Collected  and  Digested  the 
following  Rules  and  Directions^  which,  I  doubt  not, 
will  be  of  great  Use  to  all  Pious  Young  Men  and 
Women,  who  seek  after  Knowledge  in  the  fear  of 
the  Lord.'  And  here  accordingly  follow  eight  and 
thirty  pages  of  *  Directions  for  Spelling,  Reading  and 
Writing  true  English.' 

Lest  the  Young  Man  should  be  weary  of  well 
doing,  these  *  Directions'  are  followed  by  a  number 
of  quotations  from  *  Judge  Hale's  Contemplations  in 
his  Account  of  the  Good  Steward'  in  prose,  varied 
by  *The  aforesaid  Author  on  Solitude  in  verse,'  a 
couple  of  hymns,  and  a-  Version  of  the  Command- 
ments. All  this,  however,  is  only  a  concession  to  the 
frivolous  side  of  man's  nature,  and  we  soon  find 
ourselves  again  at  more  solid  business.  For  40  pages 
we  are  learning  to  hold  a  pen  properly,  to  make  red 
ink,  and  to  write  a  good  hand.  *  I  have  found  it  most 
beneficial  for  Youth  in  general,'  says  our  author, 
*  to  learn  to  write  one  plain  Hand  for  Business ;  and 
as  for  Flourishing  great  Letters  to  begin  their  Copies, 
they  are  as  needless  as  long  Periwigs.'  He  then 
proceeds  to  accumulate  a  vast  collection  of  moral 
Sentiments  intended  to  serve  as  head-lines.  From 
these  we  select  three  for  quotation — the  first  because 
it  is  historically  true,  the  second  because  it  displays 
much  boldness  of  imagination,  and  the  third  because 


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it  is  likely  to  be  useful  to  men  who  keep  on  the  ground- 
floor  and  never  sport  their  oaks,  (i)  *  Diversity  of 
Opinions  in  matters  of  Religion  commonly  is  the 
ground  of  a  Civil  War,  and  Ambition  its  Support.' 
(2)  *Rude  and  Morose  Behaviour  in  Conversation 
is  as  absurd  as  a  round  Quadrangle  in  the  Mathe- 
matics.' (3)  'Visits  made  or  received  are  usually 
an  intolerable  Consumption  of  Time,  unless  prudently 
ordered ;  and  they  are  for  the  most  part  spent  in  vain 
and  impertinent  Discourses.' 

A  section  on  Writing  is  naturally  followed  by  a 
Complete  Letter  Writer.  The  Sober  Young  Man 
having  learnt  the  art  will  naturally  desire  an  opportunity 
of  exercising  it.  The  selection  of  letters  is  a  large 
one,  including  *A  Son's  Return  of  Thanks  for  Good 
Education,'  *A  Letter  from  an  Elder  Brother  to  a 
Younger,  exhorting  him  to  a  good  Behaviour  and 
seemly  Carriage,'  'A  Letter  from  an  Apprentice  to 
his  Friends  in  the  Country,'  and  *A  Letter  from  a 
Gentleman  to  a  Gentlewoman  to  beg  Pardon  for  an 
Offence.'  Our  author  also  attempts,  without  much 
success,  to  grapple  with  the  most  difficult  of  epistolary 
problems  in  his  'Letter  of  Consolation  to  a  Lady  on 
the  Death  of  her  Brother.'  To  readers  of  the  Eagle 
only  one  of  the  collection  is  likely  to  be  practically 
useful,  and  this  we  extract  for  their  benefit. 

A  Letter  from  a  Scholar,  inviting  his  Cousin  to  betake 
himself  to  Learning, 

Dear  Cousin, 

The  Kindness!  have  for  you  cannot  be 
easily  expressed ;  and  not  only  for  your  Person,  but 
your  future  Happiness  and  Welfare,  which  you  can 
secure  no  better  Way,  than  by  Learning;  it  will 
prove  a  fast  and  faithful  Friend  to  you,  when  those 
Friends  you  too  fondly  rely  on  may  fail  you. 

Wherefore,  let  me  intreat  you,  not  any  longer  to 
Trifle  away  your  Time,  in  pursuing  Things  lighter 
than  vanity,  but  leaving  those  childish  Extravagancies, 
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betake  yourself  to  your  Book;  for  certain,  did  yon 
know  what  Sweet  Content  and  Pleasure  I  find  in  my 
Studies  you  would  not  be  long  absent  from  me. 

However,  let  me  hear  from  you,  and  know  how 
you  stand*  affected  in  this  Thing;  till  then,  I  rest 
in  Expectation  of  an  Answer,  and  am 

Your  very  Loving  Cousin, 

Adam  True. 

Evidently  Adam  True  had  come  up  early  in  the 
term  to  read,  while  his  cousin  wanted  to  stay  down 
for  the  Cesarewitch. 

Incidentally  our  author  reminds  us  that  a  *  Letter 
of  a  piece  of  Paper,  or  a  whole  Sheet,  is  two  Pence 
by  the  Post  86  miles  or  under,  if  carried  above  80 
Miles,  three  Pence:  But  if  your  Letter  be  of  two 
pieces  of  Paper  enclosed,  it's  double  the  Price  Carriage. 
A  Letter  of  an  Ounce  weight,  is  8^,  above  80  Miles  is. 
*Tis    said    the    Post  goes    120  Miles    in    24    Hours.' 

Every  provision  is  made  for  the  contingency  of 
the  Sober  Young  Man  moving  in  circles  higher 
than  those  in  which  he  was  bom.  Should  he  have 
occasion  to  write  to  the  Queen,  he  is  duly  instructed 
to  begin  his  letter  *Most  Sacred  Majesty/  and  to 
address  it  *To  the  Queen's  most  Excellent  Majesty, 
Anne,  by  the  Grace  of  God  of  Great-Britain  &cc. 
Queen.'  He  is  also  posted  up  in  the  titles  of  the 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury  and  other  dignitaries,  down 
to  *  Worshipful  Mr  Mayor.'  But  in  these  exalted 
circumstances  he  is  not  to  forget  the  precepts  of  his 
youth.  *Let  a  Man  be  of  a  very  great  Office  in  the 
Nation'  yet  if  he  take  to  *  Cursing  and  Swearing 
prophanely'  in  the  Young  Man's  presence,  he  is  to 
rebuke  him  without  fear.  And  here,  as  elsewhere, 
William  Mather  commands  our  high  respect.  His 
confidence  in  the  adequacy  of  the  Companion  for 
steering  the  Young  Man  into  lofty  station  may  seem 
somewhat  ill-founded,  but  his  determination  that  he 


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shall  demean  himself  properly  when  he  gets  there 
does  him  infinite  credit. 

As  the  Young  Man  is  ex  hypothesi  prudent  and 
thrifty,  and  contemplates  the  time  when  he  shall  be 
young  no  longer,  the  complete  Letter-writer  ends 
with  forms  for  making  his  will.  Of  these  one  in 
particular  begins  in  a  quaint  old-world  fashion.  */« 
the  Name  of  Gody  Amen.  I  W.  M.  of  &c.  an  unworthy 
member  of  the  Church  of  England,  being,  thro'  the 
Abundant  Mercy  and  goodness  of  God,  tho'  weak 
in  Body,  yet  of  a  sound  and  perfect  Understanding 
and  Memory,  do  constitute  this  my  Last  will  and 
Testament,  and  desire  that  it  may  be  received  by  all 

as  such* To  continue  our  quotation  would,   in 

these  irreverent  days,  be  a  desecration,  as  if  one 
should  disturb  his  father's  sepulchre.  The  Testator, 
after  expounding  his  doctrinal  position  at  great  length 
in  the  resonant  sentences  of  his  day,  finally  bequeaths 
his  Soul  to  God  his  Maker,  his  body  to  the  Earth 
from  whence  it  was  taken,  and  his  worldly  goods  to 
his  *dear  and  loving  Wife.'  And  who  among  us 
could  make  a  better  will  ? 

The  section  entitled  *of  Women,  Children,  and 
Servants '  is  of  small  value  to  collegians,  and  of  Bed- 
makers  our  author  knows  nothing.  From  this  we  may 
pass  at  once  to  Arithmetic,  to  which,  nearly  half  the 
book  is  devoted.  This  chiefly  consists  of  examples, 
all  of  which  have  an  economic  and  some  a  moral 
value.  Thus  we  learn  from  William  Mather  that 
in  Queen  Anne's  reign  Tape  was  a  penny  a  yard, 
while  in  the  present  day  (unless  you  are  an 
undergraduate)  you  buy  three  yards  for  your  [penny. 
The  same  authority  prices  Rye  at  3/6  a  bushel. 
Coals  at  Td.  a  bushel,  Malt  at  16/5  a  quarter,  and 
nutmegs  at  5/1  a  lb.  Further  on  we  find  Sugar 
at  5^.  a  lb.  (now  at  3//.),  Ginger  at  6d,  (now  i/-), 
Candles  at  5/2  a  dozen  (now  about  lorf.),  and  Sugar 
at  i^d.  a  lb.  (now  /\d,).    Tobacco  is  z\d.  a  pound.    The 


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advance  of  civilisation  is  not  an  unmixed  benefit,  and 
evidently  in  those  days  the  Sober  Young  Man  had 
his  little  compensations. 

But  our  author  is  nothing  if  he  is  not  moral.  He 
leavens  even  arithmetic  with  ethics,  and  displays 
the  wisdom  of  the  serpent  in  introducing  statements 
of  doctrine  into  examples  which  are  primarily  intended 
to  illustrate  mathematical  processes.  The  rule  of 
*  Substraction '  is  illustrated  by  the  time  which  has 
elapsed  since  the  various  sects  of  Dissenters  separated 
from  the  Church  of  England,  and  here  our  author 
takes  occasion  to  enumerate  twenty  Popish  errors. 
In  dealing  with  more  complicated  problems  he  is  at 
pains  to  show  th^t  *a  Penny  idly  spent  might  buy 
a  Yard  square  of  Land,  that  is  9  square  Feet,  after 
the  Rate  of  ;^2o  the  Acre.'  Wherefore  in  time  the 
Sober  Young  Man  might  hope  to  acquire  out  of 
such  savings  *  space  enough,  to  build  a  pretty  House 
upon,  or  make  a  little  Garden,  which  being  planted, 
the  Fruit  thereof  may  every  Year  make  a  Man  blush 
that  he  should  lose  such  a  brave  Conveniency,  meerly 
for  Drinking  an  unnecessary  Quart  of  adulterated 
Sack,  or  two  Bottles  of  stumm'd  Claret,  that  hold 
not  three  Pints,  which  perhaps  impairs  his  Health, 
and  exposes  him  as  a  Drunken  Beast,  to  the  Reproach 
of  Human  Nature.'     "Which  is  excellent  advice ! 

As  the  Young  Man  will,  from  the  nature  of  the 
case,  take  all  the  advice  which  is  thus  liberally  offered 
him,  his  preceptor  proceeds  logically  enough  to  give 
him  in  another  section  elaborate  directions  for  building 
a  house.  The  cost  of  constructing  one  the  size  the 
Young  Man  is  likely  to  want  (of  which  a  ground  plan 
and  dimensions  are  given)  is  estimated  at  about  ;^ioo. 
For  this  sum  he  may  expect  on  the  Ground  floor  a 
Hall,  a  '  Great  Parlour,'  a  '  Little  Parlour,'  a  Kitchen, 
a  Brewhouse,  and  *A  Pastery  or  Milk-house,  or  to 
set  Beer  in' — to  say  nothing  of  a  dining-room  and 
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leads  him  to  advise  his  readers  at  once  to  double  all 
the  estimates  given  them  by  workmen,  but  he  does 
not  suggest  that  this  rule  need  be  applied  to  his  own. 

After  supplying  the  fullest  information  concerning 
the  house,  including  sections  on  carpentering,  brick- 
laying, and  painting,  our  indefatigable  author  treats 
us  to  a  lecture  on  astronomy,  and  gives  by  the  aid 
of  diagrams  *A  Description  of  the  Visible  World 
according  to  Copernicus^  and  since  by  Vincent  Wing 
in  his  Hafmonican  Coeleste!  . 

At  this  point  his  energies  begin  to  flag,  and  after 
an  account  of  *  The  Thirty-two  Winds,  or  the  Seaman's 
Compass/  and  *How  to  make  a  Sun-dial,'  together 
with  *A  Brief  Description  of  the  map  of  England,' 
and  sections  *Of  Traffick,'  *What  makes  a  Compleat 
City,'  *  of  Coins,  Weights,  and  Measures,'  of*  Exchange', 
and  a  Dissertation  on  Chartered  Companies  and  Exports 
and  Imports,  he  winds  up  with  ^  Monthly  Observations 
in  Gardening,'  instructions  *  To  make  Jelly  of  Currants, 
to  cool  the  Stomach  and  Throat  if  Thirsty,'  a  list 
of  Medicines,  and  a  guide-book  to  the  sights  of 
London.  This  last  is  a  touch  of  worldliness  which 
suggests  that  even  the  Sober  Young  Man  was  human. 

Some  of  the  remedies  recommended  to  us  in  the 
medical  section  sound  curious  enough  in  these  doctor- 
ridden  days,  when  we  are  afraid  to  try  experiments 
upon  ourselves,  but  maintain  a  profession  to  try  them 
for  us.  For  a  burn  or  scald  *a  bruised  Onion  with 
Salt'  is  recommended;  for  a  cough  'drink  at  going 
to  bed  Brandy^  Treacley  and  Salad  Oyly  for  rickets 
in  children  a  preparation  of  House-snails.  The 
prescription  for  *  melancholly '  is  to  *  eat  often  of  Cream 
of  Tartar  mixt  with  Honey  or  Treacle^  and  shun  all 
Musical  Meetings ;  for  madness  *  hold  him  under  Water 
till  he  is  almost  drown'd,  put  him  into  Bed  in  a 
dark  Room,  and  his  diet  only  Milk  Pottage,  half- 
water.'  *Yet  chewing  Tobacco,'  says  our  author,  *is 
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Queen  Anne  is  dead.  The  days  of  Young  Men's 
Companions  are  over.  The  Sober  Young  Man  is  an 
extinct  species,  and  his  modern  counterpart  scorns 
advice,  particularly  in  manuals.  But  in  readers  of  the 
EaglSy  if  anywhere,  the  ancient  spirit  of  soberness  may 
perhaps  be  found.  Should  any  of  these  the  noblest  of 
their  species  desire  to  attempt  life  under  guidance,  they 
might  do  worse  than  call  up  the  spirit  of  that  very 
excellent  sage  whose  claim  to  immortality  rests  upon 
The  Young  Man's  Companion.  And  should  any 
such  come  suddenly  and  by  good  luck  upon  his 
work,  let  them  put  their  hands  in  their  pockets  and 
pay  its  modest  price.  For  *  Young  Men  by  the 
Reading  such  Books  as  treat  of  Moral  Goodness, 
and  the  most  useful  and  profitable  Arts,  are  kept 
from  Idleness  and  freed  from  Melancholy.' 

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SCIENCE  AT  SEA. 


SNE  evening  towards  the  end  of  the  Easter  Term 
wj  I  am  considering  how  to  employ  the  first  few 
weeks  of  the  "Long,"  when  to  me  enters 
the  Skipper,  who  offers  a  solution,  of  the  problem. 
"  Look  here,"  he  says,  "  I've  just  invested  in  a  yacht, 
a  regular  beauty,  none  of  your  Norfolk  Broads  egg- 
shells." (I  am  an  experienced  Broadsman,  when  there 
is  a  man  to  navigate  and  wash  up.)  *^  She  is  an  old 
racer,  and  won  lots  of  prizes  in  her  time.  I'm  going 
to  sail  her  to  France  this  'Long,'  and  then  go  to 
Brussels  and  Waterloo  by  train.  I  want  you  and 
the  Savant,  who  has  promised  to  come.  Great  fun 
doing  all  the  work  ourselves,  you  know."  I  am  aware 
that  the  Skipper  has  applied  himself  to  the  art  and 
practice  of  navigation  from  his  cradle,  but  I  venture 
to  suggest  the  advisability  of  carrying  a  professional 
crew.  The  idea  is  sternly  repelled,  and  I  am  told 
that  if  we  get  up  the  charts  and  sailing  directions 
beforehand  the  Channel  will  be  much  easier  to  tackle 
than  Hickling  or  Oulton,  as  there  are  no  gales  in 
June.  I  surrender,  and  with  the  Savant,  who  is  all 
enthusiasm,  I  beg^n  to  assimilate  the  necessary  material 
in  the  shape  of  charts  which  make  the  sea  bottom 
a  continuous  sandbank,  and  pilot's  hand-books  showing 
how  to  get  round  the  edges  thereof. 

By  the  middle  of  June  the  crew  are  summoned  to 
Ipswich,  and  the  new  yacht  lies  revealed  in  all  her  glory. 
Certainly  a  nice  looking  boat,  though  rather  small  I 
think,  but  I  don't  say  so,  for  it  has  been  previously 


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explained  that  she  is  a  ten-tonner,  and  "can  live  in  most 
seas."  We  were  not  told  whether  her  crew  can.  Two 
men  on  board  are  giving  the  last  touches  of  paint. 
"Welcome  on  board  the  good  yawl  ThistUy*  says 
the  Skipper.  On  this  one  of  the  men  growls  "  Can't 
come  aboard  to-day,  sir,  cabin  won't  be  varnished  till 
to-morrow.  Look  up,  sir,  that  'ere's  all  tarry"  (this 
to  me,  whose  hands  have  lighted  on  a  stay  or  some- 
thing— I  come  away  with  difficulty).  "Never  mind," 
says  the  Skipper,  "  we  must  put  up  at  an  hotel  for  a 
day  or  two,"  which  we  do,  and  astonish  the  proprietor 
by  the  nature  of  our  luggage.  This,  by  instructions 
from  the  commanding  officer,  consists  wholly  of  kitbags 
enveloped  in  blankets.  "  You  can't  bring  portmanteaus, 
and  you  can  easily  make  beds  of  your  clean  linen." 

In  a  few  days  the  varnish  has  dried,  or  rather 
reached  a  stage  of  merely  moderate  stickiness.  We 
manoeuvre  the  Thistle  through  the  lock-gates  and 
into  the  Orwell.  It  is  proposed  to  sail  for  Boulogne 
direct,  but  four  miles  down  the  river  we  stick  fast 
on  a  mud-bank,  which  is  frightfully  odoriferous  when 
we  find  ourselves  high  and  dry  next  morning.  We 
turn  out  with  difficulty,  the  varnish  having  partially 
cemented  ourselves  and  blankets  to  the  bunks. 
Release  of  crew  and  ship  is  at  last  effected,  and  we 
drop  past  Harwich  in  great  form.  I  am  told  off  to 
prepare  breakfast,  so  incarcerate  myself  in  forepeak 
before  a  forbidding-looking  paraffin  stove ;  light 
stove  and  make  a  mixture  of  oatmeal  and  water  in 
the  hope  of  its  turning  into  porridge;  then  cut  up 
bacon.  Stove  takes  some  time  to  boil,  and  general 
stuffiness  of  forepeak  increases,  while  a  sudden  lurch 
tells  me  we  are  on  the  high  seas,  at  the  same  time 
emphasising  the  fact  by  upsetting  the  kettle  over  my 
legs.  I  put  my  head  through  hatch  to  aerate,  and 
find  I  have  a  reason  for  staying  outside.  A  disdainful 
hail  from  Skipper  to  "come  out  of  that"  is  followed 
by  advent  of  Savant  to  complete  cooking  of  breakfast. 


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Am  now  told  to  remain  for'rad,  and  look  out  for  a 
certain  buoy  with  "Whitaker  Channel"  or  some  such 
name  on  it — anyhow,  it  has  a  staff  and  triangle  for 
me  to  know  it  by.  Eyes  somewhat  damaged  by  smoke, 
but  I  determine  to  retrieve  reputation  and  spot  staff 
and  triangle.  First  object  noted  is  the  Savant,  who 
comes  out  of  forepeak  with  a  headache  and  retires  to 
his  bunk.  "First  day  at  sea  always  affects  me  in 
this  way,"  he  says,  "it's  the  excess  of  ozone  in  the 
air."  I  don't  think  so,  but  haven't  the  heart,  or 
rather  the  stomach,  to  contradict  him,  as  I  mournfully 
and  in  judicious  silence  take  the  tiller,  under  instruc- 
tions to  "keep  her  full  and  by,"  the  Skipper  going 
forward  to  complete  a  breakfast  "pretty  well  spoilt," 
as  his  uninterested  crew  is  informed.  Skipper  devours 
unspoilt  portion  in  solitude,  and  then  produces  hideous 
stump  of  blackened  clay,  his  "seagoing  pipe'*  he 
calls  it ;  sight  intensifies  sufferings  of  crew.  He  informs 
us  that  he  shall  run  into  the  Thames  for  the  night, 
as  we  are  unfit  for  keeping  a  look-out  in  the  dark.  .  In 
the  evening  crew  partially  revive,  and  are  able  to 
assist  in  anchoring  for  night  off  Southend  Pier. 
Skipper  passes  jovial  evening  with  clay  pipe,  while 
crew  mature  plan  for  committing  it  to  the  deep  if 
opportunity  arises. 

Next  morning  we  are  convalescent,  and  hungry, 
and  by  special  indulgence  breakfast  is  served  before 
getting  under  weigh.  Pleasant  sail  through  Queen's 
Channel  to  Margate  on  smooth  sea;  evening  ashore, 
and  a  visit  to  variety  entertainment  and  al  fresco 
dance.  Variety  entertainment  consists  chiefly  of 
clairvoyance,  the  performers  being  experimented 
on  by  Savant  with  his  sport  key.  He  says  he 
has  spotted  method,  but  refi-ains  firom  exposing 
them  publicly  from  charity  of  heart.  The  Skipper 
also  displays  this  excellent  virtue  by  making  perform- 
ing baby  elephant  ill  on  Bath  buns.  Next  morning 
it  rains  and  blows  hard;  quite  a  sea  on  outside. 
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Skipper  nearly  decides  to  sail  for  France  in  face  of 
elements:  "I  should  like  to  show  you  the  Thistle 
thrash  close-hauled  through  that,"  he  says,  but  at 
last  yields  to  urgent  representations  of  crew  regarding 
yet  unseen  attractions  on  shore.  We  take  afternoon 
train  to  Ramsgate  to  enable  him  to  explore  harbour; 
he  makes  acquaintance  of  all  the  boatmen  and  obtains 
much  technical  information  as  to  dangers  of  coast, 
and  how  they  may  be  avoided  by  duly  "making" 
certain  buoys  dimly  to  be  seen  in  oflB.ng*  "Nothing 
like  coming  over  first  and  finding  out  about  a  port : 
must  use  Ramsgate  as  harbour  of  refuge  if  we're 
caught.  Very  dangerous  entrance  though,  for  it's  ten 
to  one  you'll  run  on  to  one  of  the  pier  heads,  as  many 
a  big  ship  has  done."  It  appears  that  "any  port 
in  a  storm "  loses  some  of  its  point  in  this  case.  We 
return,  crew  hoping  for  fair  weather  and  that  we  shan't 
have  to  depend  on  Ramsgate  for  a  retreat  from  possible 
tempest.  However,  next  morning  is  fine,  and  we  sail 
for  Calais  at  an  early  hour.  After  first  mile  a  light 
breeze  is  succeeded  by  dead  calm.  We  glide  back- 
wards on  tide  towards  the  Thames.  Forward  again 
after  a  bit  as  breeze  re-appears.  Make  up  lost  ground 
and  approach  North  Foreland,  off  which  much  broken 
water  is  descried,  a  sort  of  small  storm  by  itself 
without  any  wind — shall  we  have  to  rush  from  this 
Scylla  to  Charybdis  of  Ramsgate  Harbour?  The 
Savant  suggfests  breakers.  "Nothing  of  the  sort," 
says  the  Skipper,  "its  only  the  race  over  Longnose 
Ledge";  and  then  explains  cause  of  phenomenon 
and  cites  similar  one  at  Portland  Bill.  Pilot  Book 
produced  as  authority.  "The  aspect  of  the  sea  is 
appalling  and  small  vessels  have  been  observed  to 
founder  in  the  Race,"  he  reads.  Glad  this  isn't  Port- 
land. Presently  we  enter  race.  Wind  falls  again: 
if  the  aspect  of  sea  is  not  appalling,  the  motion  of 
yacht  is — boom  crashes  from  side  to  side  and  will 
evidently  act  as  automatic  guillotine  for  any  head  in 


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its  way — ^kettles  and  saucepans  waltz  gaily  round 
forepeak,  general  confusion  on  board.  Crew  are 
ordered  forward  to  stow  things.  The  Savant  takes 
outside  course  over  deck  and  arrives  at  hatch  with 
contused  wrist  and  suspected  fracture  of  little  finger 
from  blow  of  jib  tackle.  I  adopt  cabin  route  and  am 
met  half-way  by  pantry  door.  Scalping  narrowly 
escaped  only  to  find  further  way  blocked  by  barricade 
of  books  and  most  of  dinner  service  across  gangway. 
We  "  stow  things "  at  last,  and  escape  from  forepeak 
just  in  time  to  avoid  being  overcome  by  aroma  of 
stove.  Breeze  reviving,  we  make  slight  progress 
towards  Ramsgate.  Backward  progress  made  at  same 
time  by  jolly  boat,  which  has  smashed  her  tow-rope 
in  tumult  of  race  and  is  half-a-mile  away  before 
accident  is  noticed.  Exciting  time  picking  her  up. 
First  shot  ineffectual,  in  spite  of  prodigies  of  valour 
on  part  of  Savant,  who  hangs  chiefly  by  his  toes 
from  gunwale  in  efforts  to  grab  her.  She  bounds 
away  just  as  he  thinks  he  has  hold  of  her  bow,  and 
we  haul  him  on  board  again.  Second  shot  succesuful 
and  we  proceed.  The  Skipper  decides  to  give  crew 
another  night  in  an  English  harbour,  as  a  rest  after 
toils  of  day  and  reward  for  efforts  to  overcome  sea- 
sickness, which  have  been  partially  successful  to-day. 
Evening  ashore  at  Ramsgate.  Next  morning  switch- 
backs and  other  local  phenomena  prove  so  interesting 
that  the  Skipper  postpones  sailing  till  to-morrow's 
tide. 

We  sail  at  five  a.m. — sea  quite  smooth  with  gentle 
breeze,  which  Skipper  prophesies  will  freshen  as  sun 
gets  up.  Preparations  for  breakfast  made  by  lighting 
stove  and  mixing  porridge — this  particular  breakfast 
has  not  been  served  yet,  but  of  that  more  anon.  Off 
Deal  wind  does  freshen  and  we  begin  to  expect 
to  arrive  at  Calais  before  dark.  Meet  large  ironclad 
near  the  South  Foreland.  The  Skipper  is  inspired 
with  patriotism  by  the  spectacle  and  delivers  himself 


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of  oration  on  naval  might  of  England,  to  the  wonder 
of  his  crew,  who  are  more  accustomed  to  sarcasms 
on  Royal  Navy  in  connexion  with  bursting  guns  and 
turret-ships  which  run  each  other  down.  As  Sigpial 
.Officer  I  propose  saluting  in  due  form,  but  am  unfor- 
tunately ignorant  of  exact  procedure.  Skipper  says 
he  thinks  I  should  hoist  ensign  rolled  up  so  as  to 
burst  out  in  breeze  on  striking  the  truck,  and  salute 
by  dipping  when  we  pass.  Progframme  is  duly  carried 
out  as  far  as  arrival  of  ensign  at  truck,  where,  however, 
it  remains  siUkily  coiled  up  in  spite  of  delirious  jerking 
at  halliards.  Ignominiously  hauled  down,  it  is  sent  up 
again  flying,  when  ceremony  of  dipping  is  performed 
with  6claL  No  response  from  ironclad.  Snubbed 
feeling  perceptible.  The  Skipper  now  thinks  yacht 
navy  will  be  disaffected  in  case  of  war  if  insults  of 
this  kind  are  permitted.  The  Savant  says  "  Take  the 
mean  of  two  experiments  and  dip  again."  Recovery 
of  spirits  all  round  as  ironclad's  ensign  responds 
smartly  to  salute.  After  all,  we  were  only  too 
impatient  to  wait  till  quite  alongside. 

We  proceed  towards  France  through  a  rising  sea. 
Breakfast  still  in  abeyance,  but  desire  for  it  on  part 
of  crew  nearly  down  to  zero,  and  we  applaud  decision 
of  the  Skipper  to  hail  South  Sand  Head  Lightship, 
as  to  advisability  of  crossing  to-day  in  face  of  falling 
barometer  and  dirty  mass  of  clouds  to  windward. 
Answering  hail  unintelligible  to  us,  but  Skipper  trans- 
lates it  as  "A  little  bit  of  wind  that  won't  hurt  you." 
Crew  look  wistfully  towards  Ramsgate,  but  we  urge 
on  our  wild  career.  Visits  to  leeward  gunwale  increase 
in  frequency.  Presently  appalling  spectacle  presents 
itself  in  shape  of  column  of  smoke  from  forehatch. 
Fire  brigade,  represented  by  Savant  and  Signal  Officer, 
are  called  away  at  once  and  forget  their  personal 
troubles.  Savant-half  of  brigade  seizes  our  one 
bucket,  which  is  nearly  lost  overboard  in  filling,  an4 
then  charges  wildly  forward  to  scen^  of  conflagration. 


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On  arrival  at  hatch  tears  it  off,  when  a  lurch  sends  it 
overboard.  I  clutch  a  kettle,  rush  forward  through 
cabin«  capsize  kettle,  and  arrive  without  it  in  forepeak 
just  as  the  Savant  empties  a  bucketful  down  hatch. 
Shower-bath  not  in  it  with  this.  Through  cataract 
I  dimly  see  stove  capsized,  blazing  paraffin  all  over 
floor,  and  woodwork  beginning  to  catch.  A  roll  jerks 
sliding-door  on  to  me  and  I  am  wedged  tight  between 
cabin  and  forepeak.  Fire  is  gradually  got  under,  the 
brigade  above  pumping  on  fire  and  myself  indifferently. 
Nothing  but  smoke  and  steam  now,  but  brigade  still 
at  it.  It  has  done  its  worst,  there  is  a  foot  of  water 
in  forepeak,  and  I  can't  be  made  any  wetter.  As 
soon  as  I  conclude  that  suffocation  from  smoke  is 
going  to  be  exchanged  for  water  method  I  hail  feebly 
that  all  danger  is  over  and  I  want  rescuing.  But 
brigade  replies,  "Can't  help  it,  my  dear  fellow,  the 
flashing  point  of  commercial  paraffin  is  so  and  so 
^degrees  and  that  stove  is  still  hot  enough  to  evaporate 
a  sufficient  volume  of  vapour  for  explosion.  If  such 
an  event  takes  place" — ^here  a  bucketful  prevents  me 
hearing  rest  of  lecture,  I  am  not  going  to  be  blown 
up  as  well  as  suffocated  in  two  different  ways,  so,  by 
an  effort  of  the  sort  usually  called  "supreme,"  I  get 
unwedged  and  go  into  hospital,  while  fire  brigade 
reports  to  Skipper — "Called  at  7.30  a.m.  to  fire  in 
forepeak  caused  by  upsetting  of  cooking  stove.  Out- 
break suppressed  by  175*2  bucketfuls.  Saucepan  of 
porridge  destroyed,  stove,  woodwork,  and  other  contents 
of  forepeak,  including  the  Signal  Officer,  badly  damaged 
by  smoke  and  water."  Report  concludes  with  neat 
thesis  on  combustion  of  paraffin  and  effects  of  sooty 
particles  on  lungs  of  firemen  on  duty. 

After  this  things  settle  down,  that  is,  everything 
except  the  sea,  which  gets  a  good  deal  rougher. 
Much  water  comes  in  through  unroofed  hatch,  and 
at  last  the  Skipper  decides  on  returning  to  Ramsgate. 
A  few  hours  later  we  are  at  rest  in  harbour,  which 


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gives  the  Savant  an  opportunity  of  impressing*  the 
natives  with  an  awe-inspiring  tale  of  disaster.  I  do 
not  mind  their  knowing  we  have  been  on  fire,  but 
I  wish  he  wouldn't  make  so  much  of  the  bucketfula 
which  went  down  my  back. 

After  a  day  or  two  in  harbour  we  once  more  start 
for  Gaul,  with  a  new  hatch  and  replenished  stores 
of  potted  meat  and  squish.  Great  excitement  over 
impromptu  race  with  another  yacht  about  our  size, 
which  left  Ramsgate  at  the  same  time,  .  First 
one,  then  the  other,  gets  ahead.  Signal  station  at 
Deal  evidently  thinks  it  is  the  Genesta  and  Puritan 
over  again,  and  hoists  "Shew  your  distinguishing 
signals"  as  we  pass.  We  have  the  code-book  on 
board  but  no  flags,  so  my  post  is  a  sinecure  after  all. 
However,  I  am  consoled  by  remaining  well,  while 
the  Savant  throws  away  a  half-finished  cigarette  and 
retires  into  obscurity  and  a  bunk.  Other  yacht  goes 
westward  and  England  fades  away  astern,  and  presently* 
we  get  into  a  region  of  smooth  water  crossed  by 
lines  of  waves  resembling  breakers.  "The  overfalls 
of  the  Ridge  Shoal,"  says  the  Skipper,  and  explains 
influence  of  irregularities  of  sea  bottom  on  wave  forms. 
I  fetch  up  the  Savant  to  be  edified,  but  he  mournfully 
says  that  he  has  quite  appreciated  the  practical  work 
and  would  rather  not  attend  the  lecture.  I  have  had 
my  revenge  for  the  drowning  of  two  days  ago. 

Soon  after  this  we  make  the  French  coast,  and 
after  mistaking  Cape  Grisnez  lighthouse  for  the  Column 
of  the  Grand  Army  we  manage  to  hit  Boulogne. 
We  air  our  French  to  the  lock-keepers  at  dock  gates, 
who  reply  promptly  "Put  your  'elm  down,  sare,  and 
chuck  us  a  rope."  Presently  we  make  fast  among  a 
small  fleet  of  English  yachts,  for  whose  benefit  the 
harbour  seems  to  have  been  chiefly  constructed. 
Dinner  ashore — bill  a  complicated  document  requiring 
much  explanation  from  hostess.  The  Skipper's  arith- 
metic   fails    to    "homologate"    French    and    English 


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currencies — so  does  ours,  but  we  all  explain  the  thing 
a  great  many  times  over  to  each  other  and  agree  that 
it  is  all  right — a  mistake,  as  it  subsequently  turns  out. 
Next  few  days  are  spent  in  exploring  town  and 
neighbourhood.  We  conscientiously  "do"  everything, 
from  dome  of  Cathedral  to  automatic  whistle-buoy  off 
new  breakwater.  One  day  we  bathe.  We  first  of 
all  go  down  to  machines,  in  innocence  of  our  hearts 
hoping  to  go  in  at  once  after  buying  tickets  from 
man  in  charge,  but  we  are  directed  back  to  Municipal 
Swimming  Bath  behind  Casino  for  the  tickets.  We 
explain  that  we  want  to  bathe  in  the  sea,  not  in  a  bath. 
This  surprises  the  man  (it  is  a  dull  day,  though  smooth, 
and  no  one  else  is  bathing),  but  at  last  he  makes  it 
evident  that  sea  and  swimming  bath  are  "homologated" 
by  municipal  Code,  and  that  the  tickets  are  the  same 
for  both.  Office  at  last  found,  after  having  circum- 
navigated Casino  twice.  We  take  a  ticket  for  a  towel, 
another  for  bathing,  another  for  a  costume,  and  another 
for  a  second  towel  or  something.  At  separate  counters 
we  obtain  paraphernalia,  and  discharge  first  cargo  of 
tickets,  and  take  on  board  another  lot  for  right  to 
use  machines.  Away  again  to  beach.  Tickets  taken 
by  a  woman  in  general  command,  who  hands  us  over 
to  man  of  subordinate  rank.  People  on  beach  look 
as  though  they  think  us  very  foolish  to  bathe  to-day. 
We  all  cram  into  one  machine,  and  with  a  shout  of 
"  Gardez-vous,  messieurs,"  we  are  hurried  into  the 
deep.  Costumes  at  least  are  not  homologated,  and 
damage  is  done  to  them  and  wearers  before  we  get 
into  them.  But  our  troubles  are  over,  we  are  in  the 
water,  though  three-quarters  of  an  hour  after  arrival 
on  scene.  We  all  swim  out  a  little  way,  but  do  not 
escape  the  Code,  for  as  the  Skipper  gets  ahead  and 
nears  end  of  jetty  lynx-eyed  officials  discover  him,  and 
a  boat  is  manned  and  launched.  A  great  flag  flies 
aloft,  and  the  boat  carries  a  bugler.  The  Skipper 
is  "recalled  by  bugle."     Alas!  he  has  offended  the 


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Code  by  swimming  so  far  and  must  return  at  once. 
The  boat  overtakes  him,  and  while  the  bugle  still 
sounds  he  is  convoyed  back  in  disgrace.  It  seems 
the  impression  created  on  shore  was  that  he  was 
attempting  a  return  to  Albion  without  paying  harbour 
dues.  Bathing  is  evidently  attended  with  many  terrors, 
and  we  do  not  try  again,  but  start  overland  for  Brussels 
next  day,  leaving  the  Thistle  in  charge  of  an  English 
skipper  in  port. 

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The  Rev  Canon  Charles  Tower  M.A. 

The  Rev  Charles  Tower,  Honorary  Canon  of  Salisbuiy, 
and  for  thirty-seven  years  rector  of  Chilmark,  died  on  June  12 
at  Avondale,  Bathford.  He  graduated  at  St  John's  College 
in  1837,  and  was  ordained  in  1838,  his  first  curacy  being 
Moreton,  Essex.  From  184.0  to  184.3  he  was  curate  of 
Loughton,  in  the  same  county,  and  in  the  latter  year  he  was 
presented  by  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  to  the  rectory  of  Chilmark,* 
which  he  continued  to  hold  till  1880,  when  he  was  succeeded 
by  his  son,  the  Rev  C.  A.  M.  Tower.  He  was  Rural  Dean 
of  Chalke  from  1863  until  he  resigned  his  living,  and  Succentor 
of  Salisbury  Cathedral  from  1869  to  1877.  In  1859  Canon. 
Tower  took  an  active  part  in  the  formation  of  the  diocesan 
choral  association,  of  which  he  was  the  first  secretary.  During 
his  long  incumbency  of  Chilmark,  says  the  Salisbury  /oumal, 
he  endeared  himself  in  the  highest  degree  to  his  parishioners, 
by  his  zealous  and  unremitting  discharge  of  the  duties  of  a 
parish  priest. 


The  Rev  Arthur  Beard  M.A. 

On  Sunday,  August  3,  at  his  Rectory  of  Great  Greenford,* 
Southall,  died  the  Rev  Arthur  Beard  M.A.,  who  was  formerly 
a  Scholar  of  the  College.  He  was  twenty-ninth  wrangler 
in  1855,  and  took  his  M.A.  degree  in  1858.  From  1855  to 
1857  he  was  curate  of  Weeford,  Staffordshire,  but  returned 
to  Cambridge  in  1858,  when  he  was  appointed  chaplain, 
precentor,  and  lecturer  at  King's  College.  Soon  after  entering 
upon  his  duties  at  King's  College,  Mr  Beard,  who  devoted 
the  greater  portion  of  his  leisure  time  to  music,  with  other 
ladies  and  gentlemen,  amongst  whom  was  Mrs  Ellicott,  wife 
of  the  present  Bishop  of  Gloucester,  founded  the  Fitzwilliam 
Musical  Society,  which  he  (Mr  Beard)  jconducted;  he  was 
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exceedingly  popular  with  all  connected  with  the  Sodetj, 
as  well  as  with  everyone  with  whom  he  came  in  contact, 
and  upon  his  heing  appointed  rector  of  Great  Greenford 
in  1874,  by  King's  College,  the  Society,  thinking  it  difficult 
tQ  replace  him,  resolved  to  affiliate  itself  with  the  University 
Musical  Society.  His  loss  is  deeply  regretted  by  the 
parishioners,  amongst  whom  he  has  earnestly  laboured  during 
the  past  sixteen  years.  He  was  one  of  the  Editors  of  the 
Oxford  and  Cambridge  Psalter^  and  published  several  theological 
works* 


The  Rev  John  Davies  M.A, 

The  Rev  John  Davies  M.A.,  whose  death  was  recently 
announced,  was  a  native  of  Salford,  and  a  brother  of  the  late 
Alderman  Thomas  Davies,  formerly  mayor  of  that  borough,  and 
chairman  of  its  Libraries  and  Parks  Committee.  The  alderman 
was  a  well-known  Wesleyan,  but  his  brother  was  an  Anglican 
clergyman.  Mr  John  Davies  was  educated  at  St  John's,  taking 
his  B.A.  degree  in  1842,  and  his  M.A.  in  1845.  ^^  ^^^  Hulsean 
prize  essayist  and  thirty-first  wrangler  in  1 842  (Cayley's  year), 
and  in  the  same  year  took  holy  orders.  He  was  perpetual  curate 
of  Smallwood  from  1853  to  1857,  and  rector  of  Walsoken  from 
1857  ^^  iS?!)  when  he  retired  from  clerical  labour.  He  was 
an  accomplished  Oriental  scholar,  and  translated  the  Bhagavad 
Giia  and  the  Sankhya  Karika  of  Iswara  Krishna  for  Triibner^s 
Oriental  Series,  These  deal  with  the  fascinating  but  exceedingly 
difficult  subjects  of  Sanscrit  philosophy,  and  especially  of  the 
system  of  Kapila,  which  has  its  intellectual  relations  with  the 
theories  of  Spinoza  and  Schopenhauer.  Mr  Davies,  who  was 
a  member  of  the  Royal  Asiatic  Society,  did  not  restrict  his 
researches  to  Hindu  philology,  but  was  also  versed  in  Celtic 
lore.  He  wrote  The  Races  of  Lancashire  as  indicated  by  the 
Local  Names  and  the  Dialect  of  the  County^  to  show  the 
importance  of  the  Celtic  substratum  in  the  local  ethnology 
and  philology.  This  was  printed  by  the  Philological  Society 
in  1855,  and  in  1884  he  returned  to  the  subject  in  some  papers 
contributed  to  the  Archaeologia  Cambriensis.  The  Salford  Free 
Library  owed  to  his  thoughtful  liberality  a  number  of  rare 
and  valuable  local  books  and  tracts. 


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Theodore  Coppock  M.A.  LL.B. 

This  rising  barrister  was  accidentally  drowned  whilst  bathing 
in  the  Hardanger  Fiord,  Norway,  on  August  26.  He  was 
the  youngest  son  of  the  late  Major  Henry  Coppock,  Daw 
Bank  House,  Stockport,  formerly  Town  Clerk  of  Stockport, 
and  was  in  his  thirty-second  year.  His  early  education  was 
obtained  at  Stockport  Grammar  School,  where  he  was  a  general 
favourite.  His  education  was  continued  at  Owens  College, 
Manchester,  and  afterwards  at  St  John's.  In  1881  he  was 
a  Senior  Optime  in  the  Mathematical  Tripos.  In  due  course 
he  took  his  M.A.  degree,  and  subsequently  that  of  LL.B. 
After  this  long  scholastic  training  he  began  to  study  the  practice 
of  the  law,  and  for  a  time  was  in  the  chambers  of  Mr  T.  T* 
Methold.  He  afterwards  read  withi  Mr  J.  Home  Payne 
Q.C.  He  was  called  to  the  bar  in  1884,  and  went  the 
Northern  Circuit,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  most  promising 
juniors.  The  Coppock  family  have  been  closely  associated 
with  Stockport  for  many  years.  For  some  time  past  the 
deceased  gentleman  and  his  friend  Mr  Joseph  Craven  had 
been  engaged  in  writing  a  book  on  medical  law,  which  was 
about  to  be  published  at  the  time  of  Mr  Coppock's  death. 


Wathen  Mark  Wilks  Call  M.A. 

Mr  Call,  who  graduated  from  St  John's  in  1843,  died 
suddenly  at  the  age  of  73  on  August  20.  He  was  for 
some  years  after  his  degree  a  curate  in  Cornwall  and  Somerset, 
but  in  1856  renounced  his  orders.  He  was  a  scholar  of  wide 
and  various  learning,  and  contributed  many  articles  to  the 
Westminster^  Fortnightly^  and  Theological  Reviews.  His  poems, 
some  of  them  written  by  him  as  an  undergraduate  at  St  John's, 
while  bearing  frequent  indications  of  his  love  for  Shelley  and 
Keats,  display  also  considerable  power,  and  reflect  the  expansive 
hopefulness  that  marked  the  fifth  decade  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  Reverberations  and  Golden  Histories  are  the  titles  of 
two  volumes,  of  which  the  latter  contains  some  translations 
from  the  Greek,  previously  printed  as  Lyra  Hellenica.  The 
versions  of  several  Homeric  hymns,  in  the  manner  of  Shelley's 
Hymn  to  Mercury^  are  especially  remarkable  for  their  spirit 
and  freedom. 


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THE  FIRST  WEEK  IN  JUNE,   1890. 

I^los  succisus  aratro. 

One  plucked  another  takes  his  room, 
And  flourishes  with  equal  bloom. — VirgiL 

By  the  banks  of  the  Cam  a  sweet  youth  was  reclining; 

His  eyes  were  bright  blue  and  with  intellect  shone ; 
But  the  air  which 'he  wore  was  an  air  of  repining, 

And  misery  seemed  to  have  marked  him  her  own. 

A  pocket  book  slowly  he  took  from  his  pocket ; 

He  surveyed  it  with  many  a  sorrowful  sigh ; 
From  his  bosom  he  snatched  a  superlative  locket. 

And  the  light  of  young  love  eflfervesced  in  his  eye. 

He  gazed  on  them  both  and  he  murmured — "  O,  blow  it ! 

How  on  earth  can  I  get  through  this  blooming  big 
week?" 
(The  youth,  it  is  clear,  was  by  no  means  a  poet. 

For  his  modes  of  expression  were  slangish  and  weak.) 

^*  Six  Inter-Collegiate  Cup  competitions ; 

Three  Organ  recitals  by  Cobb,  Carr,  and  Mann ; 
Three  Concerts  a  night,  with  the  usual  additions 

Of  neat  little  suppers  for  Emily  Anne. 

*'  The  Senate  House  list,  and  Miss  Fawcett's  ovation ; 

A  Pastoral  play  in  the  gardens  of  Merton ; 
The  Newnhamite  bonfire,  and  grand  jubilation ; 

Three  five  o'clock  teas  with  the  Fellows  of  Girton. 


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"The  Flower  Show;  Australian  Match ;  the  Boat-races ; 

Dr  Jebb  on  Erasmus ;  Der  Freischiltz ;  four  Balls ; 
Dr  Jowett's  degree,  and  the  Senate  House  Graces ; 

With  the  usual  number  of  Chapels  and  Halls. 

"  O  Emily  Anne,  for  thy  sake  I  can  do  it ; 

(He  cried,  as  his  teardrops  replenished  the  Cam) 
I  can  get  through  it  all  for  thy  sake,  and  not  rue  it, 

If  I  only  could  get  through  that  blooming  Exam." 


Ten  days  had  elapsed ;  all  alone  and  neglected. 
That  youth  by  the  river  was  wailing  aloud  ; 

For  his  suit  had  by  Emily  Anne  been  rejected. 
And  he  by  Examiners  stern  had  been  ploughed. 

And  now,  a  lone  pilgrim  in  country  and  city, 
He  plays  on  his  banjo  a  woe-begone  tune ; 

And  sings  a  sad  song  "  Pity,  kind  friends,  O  !  pity 
A  victim  forlorn  of  the  first  week  in  June." 

And  if  there's  a  word  that  he  views  with  abhorrence 
'Tis  "  blooming  " — a  word  that  he  used  to  adore ; 

For  he  cries,  as  his  tears  flow  in  plentiful  torrents, 
"  Alas,  I  am  plucked,  and  shall  bloom  nevermore." 

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October  Term^  1890. 

The  Scotch  Judgeship,  vacant  by  the  death  of  Lord  Lee.  has 
been  filled  by  the  selection  of  Mr  Alexander  Low,  Sheriff  of 
Ross,  Cromarty,  and  Sutherland.  Lord  Low,  who  has  long 
enjoyed  a  large  practice  at  the  Scottish  Bar,  was  bom  on  the 
24th  Oct.  1845,  and  is  one  of  the  youni^est  men  ever  promoted 
to  the  Scottish  bench.  He  graduated  at  St  John's  College, 
with  first-class  honours  in  Moral  Science,  in  1867.  He  was  a 
staunch  Lady  Margaret  man,  rowing  2  in  the  First  Boat, 
May  1866,  and  2  in  the  College  Four,  October  1866. 

Mr  Henry  John  Roby,  our  Honorary  Fellow,  was  on 
October  22  returned  to  Parliament  as  Liberal  member  for 
the  Eccles  Division  of  Lancashire.  Mr  Roby  received  4901 
votes,  his  opponent  the  Hon  A.  F.  Egerton  obtaining  4696. 
The  result  is  a  gain  of  one  seat  to  the  Liberals.  The 
following  particulars  of  Mr  Rob/s  career  will  be  of  interest* 
to  our  readers.  Bom  in  1830  at  Tamworth,  where  his  father 
was  a  solicitor,  he  came  up  in  1849  to  St  John's,  and  was 
elected  scholar  and  exhibitioner  of  the  College,  graduating 
B.A.  in  1853,  as  Senior  Classic;  he  was  elected  the  following 
year  to  a  Fellowship,  and  subsequently  was  appointed  Tutor 
and  Classical  Lecturer.  He  remained  at  Cambridge  until  1861, 
filling  the  offices  of  Se(^retary  to  the  Local  Examinations 
Syndicate  and  of  Examiner  for  the  Law  Tripos,  the  Classical 
Trrpos,  and  the  Moral  Sciences  Tripos.  Upon  leaving  Cambridge 
he  became  an  under-master  at  Dttlwich  College,  and  while 
there  he  published  his  Elementary  Latin  Grammar,  From  1864 
to  1868  he  was  Secretary  to  the  Schools  Inquiry  Commission, 
and  in  1869  Secretary  to  the  Endowed  Schools  Commission, 
and  subsequently  Commissioner.  During  this  period  he  was 
for  two  years  Professor  of  Jurisprudence  at  University  College, 
London,  where  he  lectured  on  Roman  Law.  The  University 
of  Edinburgh  conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  LL.D.  in  1877.^ 
In  1874  Mr  Roby,  who  in  1861  had  married  Miss  Ermen,* 
daughter  of  Mr  Peter  Ermen,  removed  to  Manchester  as  a 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Ermen  and  Engels,  which  in  the  course 
of  a  few  months  was  changed  to  Ermen  and  Roby.  He  is  a 
Life-Govemor  and  Councillor  of  the  Owens  College,  Manchester. 
He  now  enters  Parliament  for  the  first  time,  and  he  will  be 
the  103rd  new  member  who  has  taken  his  seat  since  the  General 
Election  of  1886.  His  works  on  the  Digest  and  his  larger  Latin 
Grammar  have  won  him  high  reputation  as  a  scholar  and  a  jurist. 


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t-ord  Windsor  (B.A.  1878)  was  chosen  to  move  the  Address 
in  reply  to  the  Speech  from  the  Throne  at  the  opening  of  the 
present  session  of  Parliament. 

On  November  3  the  following  were  elected  Fellows  of 
the  College:  Lewis  Erie  Shore  M.A.  M.B.  B.C.  (First  Clasy 
Natural  Sciences  Tripos  1885 — 86).  Senior  University  Demon- 
strator of  Physiology ;  Charles  Alexander  Maclean  Pond  B.A. 
(First  Class  Classical  Tripos  1885—87),  first  Prendergast 
Student,  formerly  an  Editor  of  the  Eagle ;  Ralph  Allen  Sampson 
B.A.  (Third  Wrangler  1888),  First  Smith's  Prizeman  1890, 
Senior  Mathematical  Lecturer  at  King's  College,  London  j 
Edwin  Joseph  Brooks  B.A.  ('Senior  Classic'  1888),  Craven 
Scholar  and  Chancellor's  Medallist;  Ernest  Hanbury  Hanking 
B.A.  (Frst  Class  Natural  Sciences  Tripos  1888—89),  Hutchinson 
Student,  Junior  George  Henry  Lewes  Student  in  Physiology, 
formerly  an  Editor  of  the  Eagle, 

Among  the  writings,  published  and  unpublished,  submitted 
by  the  successful  candidates  for  Fellowships  were  the  following: 
Mr  Shore,  The  physiology  of  laste.  The  transformation  of  peptone^ 
and  The  influtnct  of  peptone  on  clotting;  Mr  Pond,  Studies  in 
the  inheritance-system  in  the  laws  of  Gortyn,  and  The  inheritance- 
system  at  Athens;  Mr  Sampson,  On  Stokes^ s  Current  Function; 
Mr  Brooks,  Stilicho;  Mr  Hankin,  On  acquired  immunity , 
Defensive  proteidSy  A  bacteria-killing  globulin^  etc. 

The  Editorial  Committee  have  to  acknowledge  with  many 
thanks  portraits  of  the  following  former  Editors  contributed  to 
the  Eagle  album :  The  Rev  E.  A.  Abbott,  the  Rev  G.  Richardson 
(Winchester),  Dudley  C.  Falcke,  C.  H.  Salisbury,  the  Rev  T. 
Roach,  Herbert  Cowie,  the  Rev  A.  G.  S.  Raynor  (Westminster), 
W.  N.  Roseveare  (Harrow),  the  Rev  E.  W.  Bowling  ('Arculus'), 
H.  Lee  Warner.  W.  P.  Hiern.  T.  Moss,  the  Rev  H.  W.  Moss 
(Shrewsbury),  H.  G.  Hart  (Sedbergh),  the  Rev  Canon  Whitaker, 
the  Rev  A.  B.  Haslam  (Ripon),  Walter  Baily,  H.  R.  Tottenham, 
the  Rev  C.  Stanwell,  C.  A.  M.  Pond,  E.  B.  Moser  (Shrewsbury), 
the  Rev  C.  E.  Graves,  Philip  R.  Christie,  the  Rev  Charles  Yeld, 
A.  A.  Bourne  (Cheltenham),  J.  P.  M.  Blackett. 

At  the  Diocesan  Synod  held  at  Newcastle,  Australia,  on 
July  22 — 25,  the  resignation  of  the  Rt  Rev  Dr  J.  B.  Pearson, 
formerly  Fellow,  was  accepted,  and  the  following  resolution 
was  passed — 

"That  this  Synod  having  now  accepted  the  resignation 
of  our  beloved  and  honoured  Bishop,  the  Right  Rev  Dr 
Pearson,  desires  to  place  on  record  its  appreciation  of  the 
ability,  zeal,  impartiality,  and  gentleness  which  characterised 
his  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  diocese  during  his 
residence  among  us,  and  it  prays  at  the  same  time  that  it  may 


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please  the  Almighty  in  his  goodness  to  restore  him  to  his 
work  and  usefulness  in  the  Church.  The  Synod  further 
respectfully  requests  that  the  Vicar-General  will  forthwith 
convey  to  Bishop  Pearson  this  resolution  of  the  Synod." 

The  Bishop  of  Manchester  (Dr  Moorhouse,  of  St  John's) 
has  appointed  the  Rev  J.  M.  Wilson,  head-master  of  Clifton 
College,  to  the  vicarage  of  Rochdale,  to  be  soon  resigned  by 
Canon  Maclure,  the  newly  appointed  Dean  of  Manchester. 
Mr  Wilson  has  also  been  appointed  to  the  archdeaconry  of 
Manchester,  vacant  by  the  resignation  of  Archdeacon  Anson. 
The  Times  says — "Mr  Wilson  succeeded  Dr  Percival,  the  present 
master  of  Rugby,  at  Clifton  College  in  1879.  During  his  presi- 
dency the  buildings  of  the  college  have  been,  considerably 
extended,  and  one  of  the  latest  instances  of  his  interest  in  the 
institution  was  the  presentation  of  the  new  mosaic  picture  and 
reredos  in  the  college  chapel.  Mr  Wilson  has  also  taken  a 
prominent  part  in  the  social,  educational,  and  religious  move- 
ments in  Bristol,  and  has  exercised  considerable  influence  in 
the  public  life  of  the  city.  The  news  of  his  departure  was 
received  with  regret  by  the  citizens  generally.  Mr  Wilson  will 
be  required  to  enter  upon  his  new  duties  in  October,  but  it  is 
not  certain  that  he  will  leave  the  college  before  the  beginning 
of  the  next  term,  for,  although  his  resignation  is  in  the  hands 
of  the  college  council,  he  will  defer  his  departure  until  a 
successor  has  been  appointed." 

The  London  correspondent  of  the  Manchester  Guardian 
gays— •*  The  Rev  J,  M.  Wilson  has  many  qualifications  for  his 
new  work.  In  spite  of  his  great  scientific  attainments  and  his 
record  as  Senior  ^Wrangler  of  his  year,  his  friends  bear  witness 
to  the  almost  boyish  enthusiasm  with  which  he  throws  himself 
into  every  scheme  of  social  reform.  To  the  Bristol  workmen 
Mr  Wilson  is  almost  as  well  known  as  his  predecessor  in  the 
head-mkstership,  Dr  Percival ;  indeed,  ever  since  he  left  Rugby 
Mr  Wilson  has  worked  untiringly  for  their  interests.  The 
Rochdale  Pioneers  will  certainly  find  their  new  vicar  provided 
with  excellent  credentials  by  the  Bristol  co-operators.  Mr 
Wilson,  who  hails  from  the  Isle  of  Man,  is  well  known  as  one 
of  the  leaders  of  the  Broad  Church  party." 

Archdeacon  Wilson  was  a  Scholar  of  St  John's,  Bell's  Uni- 
versity Scholar  (1856),  and  graduated  (Senior  Wrangler)  in  1859. 
He  was  ordained  in  1879 — the  same  year  that  he  was  appointed 
head-master  of  Clifton  College.  He  was  Fellow  of  St  John's 
from  1859  till  1868,  and  has  been  chaplain  to  Bishop  Temple — 
first  as  Bishop  of  Exeter  and  also  since  his  translation  to  London 
1 — from  1879.  He  preached  in  the  College  Chapel  and  in  the 
University  Church  during  the  present  term. 

Mr  F.  C.  Wace,  late  Fellow  and  Mathematical  Lecturer  of 
the  College,  has  been  elected  for  the  third  time  Mayor  of  Cam- 
bridge.   He  was  entertained  at  a  festal  dinner  by  members  of 


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the  University  and  of  the  Corporation  at  the  close  of  his  second 
period  of  office.  From  the  speeches  then  made  it  is  clear  that 
Mr  Wace  has  presided  over  the  Borough  Council  with  wisdom, 
fairness,  and  geniality. 

On  October  2,  at  the  Freemasons'  Tavern,  the  City  of 
London  School  held  their  thirtieth  Old  Boys'  Re-union  Dinner. 
The  special  feature  of  the  evening  was  the  presentation  to  the 
Rev  £.  A.  Abbott,  the  late  headmaster,  of  a  portrait  of  himself 
painted  by  Professor  Herkomer,  which  had  been  subscribed 
for  by  his  old  pupils  at  the  school.  From  two  to  three  hundred 
Old  Boys  were  present.  Dr  Abbott,  in  returning  thanks,  said 
that  in  retiring  from  the  head-mastership  he  had  attempted 
"  to  do  homage  to  no  authority  except  the  authority  of  truth," 
and  that  he  *'had  endeavoured  to  practise  in  his  retirement 
some  of  the  precepts  which  he  had  endeavoured  to  inculcate  in 
his  past  pupils."  In  making  allusion  to  his  work  in  the  future 
he  said,  "I  have  ceased  to  work  in  the  class-room,  but  not 
ceased  to  work  in  the  study,"  and  that  he  hoped  "to  live  a 
life  of  quiet  study  and  research." 

A  testimonial  gift  of  /"soo  has  been  presented  to  the  Rev 
Dr  Momerie,  formerly  Fellow,  by  his  pupils  and  friends. 

On  Friday  June  6,  a  new  window  was  dedicated  at  Cockfield 
Church  to  the  memory  of  the  late  rector,  the  Rev  Dr  Churchill 
Babington,  formerly  Honorary  Fellow.  The  church  was  well 
filled,  and  Archdeacon  Chapman  preached  the  sermon.  The 
window  is  the  work  of  Mr  C.  E.  Kempe,  and  consists  of  four 
lights,  with  decorated  tracery  above.  At  the  top  is  the  mono- 
gram, "I.  H.  S.,"  and  the  trefoils  below  are  filled  with  vine 
branches.  The  two  quatrefoils  are  filled  with  angels  bearing 
a  scroll,  on  which  are  the  words  of  Psalm  cxvii.  24,  in  the 
Vulgate  version,  **  Hcbc  est  dies  quam  fecit  Dominus;  exultemus 
ti  IcBtemur  in  ed^ 

Mr  R.  P.  Hookham  has  presented  to  the  College  the  life-size 
sculptor's  model  for  the  statue  of  William  Wilberforce  in  West- 
minster Abbey.  The  statue  has  been  placed  in  the  lower  room 
of  the  Library. 

The  Rev  J.  Griffith  LL.D.  (B.A.  1840)  has  been  re-appointed 
by  the  Council  a  Governor  of  Aldenham  School. 

When  Dr  Birch  was  writing  the  life  of  Ben  Jonson  for  the 
General  Biographical  Dictionary ^  folio,  1738,  he  applied  to  a 
member  of  St  John*s  College  for  information  respecting  the 
residence  of  the  poet,  &c.  This  person  procured  several 
memoranda  for  his  use,  from  the  learned  T.  Baker,  Ejected 
Fellow.  The  last  of  them  runs  thus :  "  Mr  Baker  adds  that 
there  has  always  been  a  tradition  handed  down  that  he  was  of 
our  College.  The  Registrar  tells  me  that  there  are  several  books 
in  our  Library  with  Ben  Jonson's  name,  given  by  him  to  the 
College ;  particularly  an  ancient  edition  of  Aristotle's  Works." 
VOL.  XVI.  E  E  E 


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As  regards  the  evidence  afforded  by  the  presence  of  Bcti 
Jonson's  signature  in  different  volumes  in  the  Library,  it  may 
be  observed  that  two  are  in  the  collection  presented  by  Bishop 
Gunning  and  one  in  that  given  by  Bishop  Morton,  and  in  this 
last  the  autograph  is  crossed  out ;  while  the  Aristotle  (in  2  vols.) 
has  new  *  wastes/  and  it  is  consequently  by  no  means  certain 
that  this  was  not  also  part  of  a  collection  bequeathed  to  the 
Library. 

At  the  biennial  election  of  members  of  the  Council  of  the 
Senate,  held  on  November  7,  Dr  Donald  Mac  Alister,  our  senior 
Editor,  was  returned  at  the  head  of  the  poll  for  members  of  the 
Senate.  Mr  R.  T.  Wright,  Law  Lecturer  of  the  College^  was 
also  elected. 

Professor  Cardale  Babington  and  Professor  Liveing  have 
been  elected  Vice-presidents,  Mr  Larmor  a  Secretary,  aiid  Mr 
Harker  a  member  of  Council  of  the  Cambridge  Philosophical 
Society  for  the  current  year. 

The  College  is  strongly  represented  on  the  new  Council  of 
the  London  Mathematical  Society  by  the  following :  Pnsident^ 
Mr  A.  G.  Greenhill,  F.R.S.,  late  Fellow;  Vice-President,  Mr  J. 
Larmor,  Fellow  and  Lecturer ;  Secretary,  R.  Tucker ;  Councillor, 
Mr  A.  E.  H.  Love,  Fellow  and  Lecturer. 

The  Rt  Hon  Leonard  Courtney  M.P.,  Honorary  Fellow, 
has  been  appointed  Vice-president  of  the  recently  founded 
Economic  Association. 

A  meeting  of  the  Counties  Chess  Association  was  held  in 
Cambridge  during  the  last  week  in  June,  play  taking  place  in 
the  hall  of  King's  College.  In  the  first  class,  open  to  all 
British  amateurs,  there  were  ten  competitors,  including  several 
strong  players  who  had  previously  taken  first  place  at  similar 
contests.  After  a  close  and  interesting  struggle  the  first  prize 
was  taken  by  Mr  W.  H.  Gunston,  late  Fellow  and  now  Auditor 
of  the  College,  with  a  score  of  7J,  made  up  of  six  wins  and 
three  draws,  not  one  game  being  lost. 

At  the  much  more  important  congress  of  the  British  Chess 
Association  held  at  Manchester  at  the  end  of  August,  Mr  Gunston 
entered  as  a  competitor  in  the  principal  tournament,  open  to 
all  the  world,  amateur  or  professional.  But  for  his  success  at 
the  Cambridge  Congress  in  June  he  would  scarcely  have  been 
admitted  to  compete,  his  object  being  simply  to  gain  some 
experience  from  meeting  really  first  class  players.  His  final 
score  was  9,  made  up  of  6  wins,  6  draws,  and  7  losses,  a  result 
much  better  than  could  have  been  expected  considering  the 
strength  of  the  competitors.  Though  he  did  not  obtain  one 
of  the  ordinary  prizes  he  was  awarded  the  special  prize  oi  £l 
for  the  most  brilliant  game  in  the  tournament,  for  his  victory 
over  Gunsberg  in  the  last  round  but  one.  The  game  has  been 
published  in  many  of  the  chess  journals. 


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The  Rev  Frederick  Smith  (B.A.  1858),  formerly  Hare  Exhi- 
bitioner of  the  College,  and  Vicar  of  St  Mary's,  Aston  Brooke 
Birmingham,  was  on  October  7  presented  by  his  congregation 
with  a  handsome  testimonial  on  the  completion  of  the  twenty- 
fifth  year  of  his  incumbeacy.  Mr  Smith  is  almost  the  senior 
clergyman  in  Birmingham,  as  regards  length  of  service. 

In  The  News  of  September  12,  1890,  is  a  portrait  and 
biographical  notice  of  the  Rev  W.  Carr  (B.A.  1880),  Vicar  of 
Goole,  and  formerly  Chairman  of  the  Rotherham  School  Board.. 

The  same  journal  on  October  3  gave  a  likeness  with  a  most 
appreciative  notice  of  the  Rev  Canon  M^  Cormick^  now  Vicar 
of  Holy  Trinity,  Hull,  and  famous  in  his  generation  at  College 
as  Captain  of  the  University  Eleven,  and  a  member  of  the 
winning  University  Crew  in  1856. 

A  portrait  and  biography  of  the  Rt  Rev  Dr  James  Moorhouse„ 
Lord  Bishop  of  Manchester,  formerly  Scholar  of  the  College, 
are  given  in  the  Christian  Herald  of  October  8,  1 890. 

An  esteemed  correspondent,  formerly  Editor  of  the  Eagle^ 
writes :  There  is  a  paragraph  in  the  Co-operative  News  of 
November  16,  1889,  stating  that  the  Book  Almanac  i^SMtd  by  the 
Co-operative  Printers  contains  amongst  other  illustrations  a 
portrait  of  Professor  Marshall  and  a  view  of  the  tower  of 
St  John's  College  Chapel.  There  is  also  a  view  of  the  Senate 
House.  These  show  the  impression  produced  by  the  visit  of 
the  Co-operators  to  Cambridge  last  year,  St  John's  coming  out 
well.  It  is  astonishing  how  deep  the  impression  is ;  I  am  told 
that  they  say  that  this  year's  Congress  ]&  all  very  well>  but  "they 
will  never  have  another  such  a  day  as  the  one  they  spent  at 
Cambridge.." 

The  Rev  Joseph  Foxley,  Rector  of  Carlton,  Worksop,  writes 
to  Dr  Sandys  as  follows:  A  Johnian,  John  Phillipps  M.A.,  who. 
was  Rector  here  from  1646  to  1666  and  a  native  of  the  parish, 
has  left  many  curious  memoranda  in  the  Register,  some  of 
which  might,  I  think,  be  acceptable  to  the  Eagle.  Among, 
other  things  he  wrote  in  his  last  year — 

Aug.  the  6tK  1666 
I  sent  to  Cambridge  for  the  visited  of  the  Plague  twenty  and  two 
shillings  and  four  pence  to  Mr  Thos.  ffothergill  President  of  St  John's  I  say 
I  sent  lU  2x.  4^. 

By  mee  Jo  :  Phillips. 

[The  Editors  will  be  happy  to  hear  further  from  Mr  Foxley]. 

The  Rev  R.  P.  Ashe,  "St  Paul  of  Uganda's"  friend  and 
co-worker  in  Uganda  during  the  reigns  of  Kings  Mtesa  and 
Mwanga,  who  has  paid  such  eloquent  tribute  to  his  dead  friend'a 
qualities,  has  resolved  to  resign  his  curacy  and  go  back  to 
Uganda.  A  letter  from  a  native  convert  decided  him  in  taking 
this  step.  The  letter  stated  that  since  Mackay's  death  they  had 
been  left  without  a  teacher,  and  the  people  were  eager  to  hear 
the  Gospel.    Mr  Ashe  is  at  present  curate  at  Wareham,  Dorset^ 


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The  Rev  R.  B.  Davies  M.A.  (Classical  Tripos  1882)  has 
joined  the  Universities  Mission  in  Central  Africa. 

The  Rev  R.  Isherwood  (B.A.  1865),  formerly  Scholar,  has  ! 

been  presented  by  the  College  to  the  Vicarage  of  Stoke  Row, 
Oxfordshire,  vacant  by  the  death  of  the  Rev  J.  Arrowsmith  | 

M.A.  (Oxford). 

Surgeon  Parke  was  Dr  Mac  Alister^s  gnest  in  College  during 
the  visit  to  Cambridge  of  Mr  H.  M.  Stanley,  who  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  LL.D.  on  October  23. 

Dr  Taylor,  our  Master,  has  been  re-appointed  by  the  Coancil 
of  the  Senate  a  Governor  of  Lampeter  College.  He  is  also 
appointed  a  member  of  the  Court  of  Discipline  for  persons 
in  statu  pupillari, 

Mr  C.  E.  Sayle,  M.A.  of  Oxford,  who  has  in  hand  the 
preparation  of  the  new  Catalogue  of  the  College  Library,  has 
been  admitted  by  incorporation  to  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Arts,  and  is  now  a  Member  of  the  College. 

Mr  W.  F.  Blaxter  (B.A.  1884)  has  been  appointed  Vice- 
principal  of  the  Liverpool  College. 

Mr  R.  Holmes  B.A.  (Fifth  Wrangler  1 885)  has  been  appointed  | 

Assistant  Mathematical  Lecturer  in  King's  College,  London,  j 

under  Professor  W.  H.  H.  Hudson,  formerly  Fellow  of  the 
College.  He  succeeds  Mr  John  Cox,  late  Warden  of  Cavendish 
and  now  Professor  of  Physics  in  Mc  Gill  University,  Montreal. 

Mr  F.  A.   Hibbert  B.A.   (Historical  Tripos   1889),    twice  | 

proxime  accesstt  for  the  Chancellor  s  English  Medal,  has  been 
appointed  Senior  History  Master  at  Denstone  College. 

Mr  W.  A.  Russell  B.A.  (Classical  Tripos  1886,  and  Mathe- 
matical Tripos  1887)  has  been  elected  Head-master  of  the  South 
African  College  School  at  Cape  Town. 

Dr  William  Hunter,  who  has  resided  with  us  for  the  last 
three  years  as  a  Fellow  Commoner,  has  just  ceased  to  hold  the 
John  Lucas  Walker  Studentship  in  Pathology.  On  his  retire- 
ment the  Managers  resolved — ^That  the  Managers  request  the 
Secretary  to  make  known  to  Dr  Hunter,  on  the  occasion  of  his 
ceasing  to  be  John  Lucas  Walker  Student,  their  great  satisfaction 
with  his  conduct  as  student  during  the  tenure  of  his  office,  and 
their  high  appreciation  of  the  value  of  the  researches  which  the 
possession  of  the  Studentship  has  enabled  him  to  carry  out. 

Mr  E.  H.  Hankin,  Fellow  of  the  College,  has  been  appointed 
to  supervise  the  medical  studies  of  students  of  Clare  College. 
Professor  Koch  has  invited  him  to  work  in  his  laboratory  at 
Berlin  in  connexion  with  his  researches  on  the  means  of  pro- 
ducing immunity  from  germ  diseases.  Dr  William  Hunter 
has  also  been  assigned  a  place  in  Dr  Koch's  laboratory. 


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The  Vice-Chancellor  has  appointed  E.  E.  Sikes  (B.A.  1889), 
Scholar  of  the  College,  and  formerly  Editor  of  the  Eagle^  to 
the  Newton  Scholarship  offered  by  the  Committee  of  the  British 
School  of  Archaeology  at  Athens.  Mr  Sikes  proceeds  to  Greece 
at  the  end  of  the  present  Term. 

Mr  P.  Horton-Smith  (B.A.  Natural  Sciences  Tripos  1889) 
has  gained  the  Shuter  Scholarship,  and  a  Senior  Entrance 
Scholarship  in  Biology  and  Physiology,  at  St  Bartholomew's 
Hospital,  London. 

J.  B.  Dale,  Scholar  of  the  College,  was  placed  second  in  the 
list  of  honours  at  the  Matriculation  Examination  of  the 
University  of  London  held  last  June.  He  was  awarded  an 
Exhibition  of  jfzo. 

A.  P.  Bender  has  been  elected  President  of  the  Cambridge 
Hebrew  Congregation  for  the  current  year. 

A.  C.  Millard  (B.A.  j888),  First  Captain  of  the  L.  M.  B.  C. 
October  Term  1887,  recently  coached  the  successful  Sydney 
University  Crew  for  their  race  against  Melbourne  University. 

Mr  L.  H.  K.  Bushe-Fox,  MacMahon  Law  Student,  and 
well-known  for  his  services  to  the  L.  M.  B.  C,  was  this  Term 
called  to  the  Bar  of  the  Inner  Temple. 

A  correspondent  informs  us  that  the  following  corrections 
should  be  made  in  Our  First  Flighi  contributed  to  vol.  Ixxxviii 
of  the  Eagle  by  Mr  J.  M.  Wilson :  J.  H.  Clark,  not  T.  Ashe,  was 
the  author  of  Arion ;  and  Samuel  Butler  sent  the  letters  entitled 
Our  Emigrant. 

The  Carus  Greek  Testament  prize  for  Bachelors  has  been 
awarded  to  Ds  Harold  Smith,  Scholar  of  the  College  (First 
Class,  Classical  Tripos  1889). 

We  have  to  apologise  for  the  following  oversights  in  pur 
list  of  College  and  University  honours  published  in  the  last 
number  of  the  Eagle.  In  the  Classical  Tripos  Part  /,  Radford 
should  be  added  to  our  First  Classes.  In  the  Moral  Sciences 
Tripos,  First  Class,  'Gilson'  should  be  'Gibson.'  In  the 
Theological  Tripos,  Ds  Greenup  should  have  had  the  mark  of 
distinction  awarded  him  by  the  Examiners. 

In  the  list  of  prizemen  in  the  College  Examinations  we 
should  have  added — 

Semitic  Languages. 
Bender. 

We  may  note  that  St  John's  gained  28  First  Classes  this 
year,  Trinity  gaining  30. 


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The  following  portraits  have  been  added  to  the  collection 
in  the  smaller  Combination-room : 

(i)  A  photogravure  by  Herr  Haefstangl  of  Munich  (proof 
before  letters)  from  W.  Shuter's  picture  of  Wiixiam  Words- 
worth (1798).  This  is  probably  the  earliest  likeness  of  the 
poet,  and  is  given  as  "  no.  i  "  by  Professor  Knight  in  his 
Portraits  of  Wordsworth,  It  fully  confirms  Hazlitt's  word- 
picture  of  him  at  this  interesting  period  of  his  life»  seven  years 
after  he  left  St  John's  College:  "There  is  a  severe,  worn 
presence  of  thought  about  the  temples,  a  fire  in  his  eye  (as  if 
he  saw  something  in  objects  more  than  the  outward  appearance), 
an  intense,  high,  narrow  forehead,  a  Roman  nose,  cheeks 
furrowed  by  strong  purpose  and  feeling,  and  a  convulsive 
inclination  to  laughter  about  the  mouth,  a  good  deal  at  variance 
with  the  solemn,  stately  expression  of  the  rest  of  his  face." 

(2)  An  engraving  by  Samuel  Cousins  of  William  Wilber- 
FORCE,  from  the  portrait  in  water  colours  by  George  Richmond 
R.A.,  painted  in  1832. 

(3)  An  engraving  by  Samuel  Cousins  of  George  Augustus 
Selwyn,  from  the  half-length  portrait  in  water  colours  painted 
by  Mr  Richmond  in  1841. 

These  three  pictures  were  presented  by  Dr  Sandys,  Public 
Orator,  Nos  (2)  and  (3)  being  gifts  to  him  from  the  artist.  It 
will  be  remembered  that  the  oil-paintings  of  Wilberforce  and 
Bishop  Selwyn  in  the  larger  Combination  Room  were  painted 
by  Mr  Richmond,  the  former  in  1834,  and  the  latter  in  1854. 

Mr  Scott,  our  Bursar,  has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the 
Syndicate  for  considering  the  question  of  Agricultural  Education 
in  the  University ;  Dr  Sandys  is  appointed  a  Manager  of  the 
Craven  Fund ;  Mr  W.  Wills  is  appointed  an  Examiner  for  the 
Law  Tripos ;  Professor  Liveing,  Mr  J.  E.  Marr„  Professor  A. 
Macalister,  and  Mr  L.  E.  Shore,  Examiners  for  the  Natural 
Sciences  Tripos;  Mr  E.  H.  Acton  an  Examiner  in  Pharma- 
ceutical Chemistry  for  the  Second  M.B.  Examination ;  Mr  Love, 
Chairman  of  the  Examiners  for  Part  L  of  the  Mathematical 
Tripos ;  Mr  Pendlebury,  an  Examiner  for  Part  IL  of  the  same ; 
Mr  J.  R.  Tanner,  a  member  of  the  Local  Examinations 
Syndicate  and  of  the  Oxford  and  Cambridge  Schools  Exami- 
nation Board ;  Dr  Besant,  a  member  of  the  Special  Board 
for  Mathematics. 

Dr  Donald  Mac  Alister  has  been  appointed  Assessor  to  the 
Regius  Professor  of  Physic. 

Mr  T.  Roberts  M.A.,  Assistant  to  the  Professor  of  Geology, 
has  been  appointed  an  Elector  to  the  Harkness  Studentship. 

Mr  R.  F.  Scott  has  been  appointed  by  the  Council  of  the 
Senate  an  Almoner  of  Christ^s  Hospital  for  six  years. 


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The  following  members  of  the  College  were  ofdained  in 
September : 

Diocese, 
Durham 
Ely 
Ely 

Ely,  for  London 
Gloucester  and  Bristol 
Llandaff 
Norwich 


Name, 
Wheeler,  A. 
Greenup,  A.  W, 
Williams,  E.  F. 
Bigg,  R.  H. 
Holmes,  E.  L. 
Du  Heaume,  J.  le  G. 
Stone,  T. 


Parish 
St  James,  W.  Hartlepool 
St  Matthew,  Cambridge 
St  Matthew,  Cambridge 


Harker,  G.  T.  T.  (M.A.)  St  Albans 
Stacey,  R.  H^ 


Ch.  Ch.  Cheltenham 

Forth  Kerry 

Holy  Trin.,  Higham 


Worcester,  for  London 
Messrs  Stacey,  Stone,  and  Williams  studied  at  Ridley  Hall 
after  taking  their  degrees. 

The  following  ecclesiastical  appointments  are  announced : 
Name, 
Salman,  J.  S.,  M.A. 
Wilkinson,  C.  G.,  M.A. 
Wilkinson,  J.  F.,  M.A. 
Keely,  A.  W.  J.,  B.A. 
Faytoh,  J.,  B.A. 

Browne,  A.  Y.,  M.A* 

Bell,  C.  E.  B.,  M.A. 

Aitken,  A.,  B.A. 
Clarke,  H.  L.,  M.A. 
Codd,  A.,  M.A. 

Lees,  G.  W.,  M.A. 
Mattinson,  G.  F.,  B.A. 
Fatten,  F.  W.,  B.A. 

Bailey,  J.,  M.A, 

Denton,  J.,  M.A. 
Ferkins,  T.  N.,  M.A. 

Wilmot,  J.  J.  T, 
Bonney,  A.,  M.A. 
Isherwood,  R.,  M.A. 

Squibb,  A.,  B.A. 

Mr  Lowther  Clarke  M.A.,  seventh  Wrangler  1877,  has  been 
appointed  by  the  Archbishop  of  York  to  the  Vicarage  of  the 
important  West  Riding  town  of  Dewsbury.  Mr  Clarke  has  had 
a  varied  experience,  having  been  an  Assistant  Master  at  St 
Peter's  School,  York,  a  county  vicar,  and  a  city  vicar  in  York, 
where  his  educational  interests  and  vigorous  character  caused 
him  to  be  elected  Chairman  of  the  School  Board.  He  read  a 
paper  at  the  Hull  Church  Congress,  criticising  free  elementary 
eduation  adversely  by  giving  results  of  its  working  in  other 
countries.  Mr  Clarke  preached  in  the  College  Chapel  last 
Easter  Term. 


B,A,  from 

(1868)  R.Full.Sutton,Yorks. 
(1879)  C.  Keighley 
(1854)  V.  Flamborough 
(1877)  C.  W.  Cowes 
(1866)  Chap.  Haslar  Hospital 

(1882)  Ass.   master  Glenal- 

mond 
(1884)  Succentor 

(1850)  Chap.  Hosp.  Bath 
(1874)  V.  St  Martin,  York 
(1866)  V.    Beaminster    and 

Canon  of  Sarum 
(1873)  C.  Saltbum 

(1884)  C.  Battyeford,  Yorks. 

(1883)  C.  Falmouth 

(1854)  V.  Holy  Trinity,  W. 
Cowes 

(1885)  Y.  AshbydelaZouch 
(1866)  V.  BarkiDgside,  Essex 

(1852)  R.  Ampthill 

(1 87 1)  C.  Remenham,  Oxon. 

(1865)  Chaplain  St  Martin's 

Almshouses,  N. 
(1861)  C.  Tivetshall 


to 

V.  Lastingham,Yorks. 

V.  Emu  Bay, Tasmania 

R.  Folkton,*  Yorks, 

R.  Greete,  Tenbury 

R.  Hopton  Walers, 
Salop 

Chap.  Bombay  Estab- 
lishment 

Frecentor,  Liverpool 
Cathedral 

V.  Stowupland,Suffolk 

V.  Dewsbury 

R.  Stockton,  Wilts. 

V.  Clifton,  Yorks. 
R.  Lesnewth,Comwall 
V.    St    Mary-le-GiU, 

near  Colne 
R.  D.  Isle  of  Wight 

Hon.  Canon  Feterbo' 
V.  St.  Peter,  Newyhi, 

Cornwall 
R.  Litchfield,  Hants. 
C.  C.  Rusbury,  Salop 
V.  Stoke  Row,  Oxon. 

R.  Clothall,  Herts. 


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The  Rev  J.  P.  A.  Bowers,  M.A.  has  been  appointed  to 
the  fifth  Canonry  in  Gloucester  Cathedral,  jast  re-established 
by  private  munificence.  Mr  Bowers  is  Diocesan  Missioner 
and  the  Canonry  provides  part  of  the  emolument  required, 
as  he  is  free  from  parochial  charge.  The  large  number  of 
clergy  present  at  Gloucester  Cathedral  from  all  parts  of  the 
Diocese  when  the  new  Canon  was  installed,  shewed  the  respect 
already  gained  by  Mr  Bowers  and  the  expectation  raised  by  this 
new  basis  for  diocesan  work. 

At  the  recent  election  of  officers  of  the  Cambridge  Union 
Society  for  the  Lent  Term,  E.  W.  Mac  Bride  was  chosen  as 
Vice-President,  and  T.  R.  Glover  and  G.  H.  R.  Garcia  as 
members  of  Committee,  G.  D.  Kempt  being  a  good  second  for 
the  Secretaryship.  Mr  G.  C.  M.  Smith  has  acted  during  this 
Term  as  Deputy  Librarian  of  the  Society. 

At  the  recent  performance  of  the  lon^  Mr  Wynne* Willson, 
Scholar,  of  the  College  and  formerly  Editor  of  the  Eagle^  took 
the  part  of  the  First  Maiden^  and  was  much  praised  for  his 
graceful  manner  and  dramatic  skill.  The  College  was  also 
represented  by  several  members  of  the  Chorus. 

The  following  books  by  members  of  the  College  have 
recently  been  announced . — The  Elements  of  Solid  Geometry 
(Macmillan),  by  R.  B.  Hayward,  F.R.S;  Scripture  Handbooks 
(Nisbet)— 5"/  Matthew,  by  J.  H.  Whitehead,  and  St  Mark,  by 
W.  E;  Pryke ;  An  Historical  Sketch  of  the  Equitable  furisdiction 
of  the  Court  of  Chancery  (University  Press),  by  D.  M.  Kerly, 
Fellow  of  the  College ;  English  Fairy  Tales  (Nutt),  collected 
by  Joseph  Jacobs;  Todhuntefs  Plane  Trigonometry  ( Macmillan \ 
revised  by  R.  W.  Hogg,  Fellow  of  the  College ;  Chronological 
Outlines  of  English  Literature  (Macmillan),  by  Frederick  Ryland  ; 
The  Western  Kshatrapas  of  Pandit  Bhagvantal  Indrajt  (British 
Museum),  edited  by  E.  J.  Rapson,  Fellow  of  the  College; 
Studies  from  the  Biological  Laboratories  of  the  Owens  College  voL  it. 
(J.  E.  Cornish),  edited  by  Dr  A.  Milnes  Marshall;  The  Life 
cf  Abraham  (T.  and  T.  Clark),  by  C.  A.  Scott;  Principles  of 
Economics  voL  i,  (Macmillan),  by  Professor  Alfred  Marshall, 
Fellow  of  the  College;  Sandhurst  Mathematical  Papers 
(Macmillan),  by  E.  J.  Brooksmith ;  Aeschines  in  Ctesiphonta 
(Macmillan),  by  Rev  T.  Gwatkin  and  E.  S.  Shuckburgh;  A 
revised  account  of  Experiments  made  with  the  Bashforth  Chrono- 
graph (University  Press),  by  F.  Bashforth,  formerly  Fellow; 
Courtship  and  Matriage  (Fisher  Unwin),  by  the  Rev  Harry 
Jones  ;  Handbook  of  Monumental  Brasses  (Sonnenschein),  by  the 
Rev  H.  W.  Macklin  ;  The  Law  and  Practice  of  Letters  Patent  for 
Inventions  (Steevens),  by  Lewis  Edmunds ;  Education  etc. :  Three 
Addresses  to  Girls  at  School  (Perceval),  by  the  Rev  T.  M.  Wilson  ; 
Monasticism  in  England  before  the  Reformation,  by  L.  T.  Dibdin ; 
North's  Lives  of  the  Norths  (Bell),  by  the  Rev  Dr  A.  Jessopp ; 
Altai  of  Central  Nervous  System  (Churchill),  by  Dr  H.  Tooth. 


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The  following  have  been  elected  to  exhibitions  attached 
to  the  undermentioned  schools: — Lupton  and  Hebblethwait© 
Exhibition  of  j^ss,  for  scholars  frona  Sedbergh  School,  to 
R.  Stowell ;  the  Munsteven  Exhibition  of  jf^o  for  scholars 
from  Peterborough  School,  to  A.  F.  Ogilvie;  the  Robins 
Exhibition  of  /'zo,  for  scholars  from  Sutton  Valence  School 
to  A.  S.  Hewitt;  the  Spalding  and  Sjrmonds  Exhibition  of/*  18,. 
for  a  scholar  from  Bury  St  Edmund's  School,  to  E.  J.  Keflford ; 
the  Duchess  of  Somerset's  Exhibitions,  for  scholars  from 
Hereford  School,  to  H.  E.  Knight  and  C.  E.  Lord,  and  for 
scholars  from  Manchester  Grammar  School,  to  T.  W.  Morris ; 
Archdeacon  Johnson's  Exhibition  of  jf32,  for  scholars  from 
Oakhan^  or  Uppingham  Schools,  to  E.  L.  L.  F.  Gorst,  of 
Oakham  School;  the  Shrewsbury  Exhibition,  founded  by  Mr 
Aston  foi:  a  scholar  from  that  school,  to  W.  R.  Lewis. 

ADxriTKD  TO  TH£  DEGKBS  OF  M.D» 

H.  R.  Jones  M.  A. 

Al>MrrTEI>t  TO  THB  DEOXEES  OF  M.B.  AND  B.C. 

F.  W,  Burton. 

The  closing  of  the  Chapel  Royal,  WhitehaU,  puts  an  end  ta 
a  connexion  between  London  and  Cambridge  which  has 
existed  since  the  reign  of  George  I.  For  a  long  time  Oxford 
and  Cambridge  supplied  each  twelve  preachers  at  this  Chapel,, 
but  in  1837  ^^  ^^^  reduced  to  one  from  each  University,  the 
appointment  being  for  two  years  in  each  case.  Of  the  twenty- 
nine  preachers  from  Cambridge  since  1837,  the  College  supplied 
seven :  namely,  Dean  Merivale,  Dr  Currey,  the  present  Bishop, 
of  Hereford,  Dr  J.  S.  Wood,  Bishop  J.  B.  Pearson,  Dr  Bonney, 
and  Canon  Whitaker.  Another  enect  of  the  closing  will  be 
that  another  pulpit  will  have  to  be  sought  for  the  delivery 
of  the  Boyle  Lectures,  for  which  Dr  Bonney  i3  at  present 
responsible. 

The  University  of  Cambridge  proper  has  not  much  patronage 
to  dispense  in  the  presentation  of  livings,  except  that  which 
it  enjoys  in  twenty-seven  counties  in  England  and  Wales, 
through  the  disability  by  law  of  Roman  Catholics  to  present 
to  any  ecclesiastical  benefice.  The  colleges,  however,,  enjoy 
the  right  of  presentation  to  over  300  livings,  which  are  of  the 
net  annual  value  of  /^i  2 1,000.  Apart  from  the  patronage 
already  referred  to,  Cambridge  University  presents  to  only  twa 
livings  in  its  own  right,  and  even  in  the  case  of  one  of  these, 
the  actual  selection  is  made  by  the  Earl  of  Guildford  from  the 
clergymen  nominated  by  the  University.  The  foUawing 
particulars  respecting  the  college  patronage  have  been  derived 
from  official  sources : 

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(.ouegw.                            presentetion.  valoo. 

St  John's. « 51     jf23,2is 

Trinity 63     ...: I9f707 

Kings 38     14*098 

Emmannel ••••••••.••     25     12,046 

Caius    18     8,211 

Clare    16     6,933 

Christ's    16     6,523 

Pembroke 12 5,682 

Jesus    .••••••••.;« 16     •• 4.769 

StPeter's    11     3,830 

Queens'   10    3,331 

Corpus  Christi    10    •••..•• 3,262 

St  Catharine's    6     2,398 

SidneySussez    8    •••• 2,376 

Magdalene 6 ••  2,360 

XrinityHall    7     1,352 

Downing  •  • « • 2     372 

Corpus  and  Clare  (alternately)      i     510 

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JOHNIANA. 

In  looking  back  at  the  sufferings  of  the  University,  we  are  reminded  of  the 
prophetic  declaration  of  Cleveland,  who,  after  a  strenuous  but  ineffectual 
opposition  to  the  election  of  Cromwell  for  the  town  of  Cambridge,  which  he 
gained  by  a  majority  of  one,  is  reported  to  have  exclaimed,  "  That  single  vote 
has  ruined  both  Church  and  State."  Cleveland  was  [tutor]  of  St  John's; 
and  his  pupU,  Bishop  Lake,  has  called  him  the  delight  and  ornament  of  that 
Society;  he  enriched  the  library,  improved  the  chapel,  and  elevated  the 
character  of  the  college. 

Anon  :  Conversations  at  Cambridge  (1836),  p.  223. 

St  John's  has  added  a  charm  to  its  venerable  Combination  Room  in  the 
portrait  of  Mr  Wordsworth  by  Pickersgill,  which  is  not  inappropriately  hung 
opposite  to  that  of  Sir  John  Herschel ;  at  a  certain  point,  says  De  Stael, 
Poetry  and  Science  meet.  Its  resemblance  to  the  Poet  is  happy  and  striking ; 
thougn  glowing,  perhaps,  with  a  ruddier  health. 

Ibid,  p.  237. 

'<The  work  it  selfe  also  being  a  Librarie  in  this  kind,  presents  it  selfe  to 
your  Honour,  the  Founder  of  two  famous  Libraries ;  one  in  fVesimmstsr 
(where  the  Stones  and  renued  Fabrikes  speake  your  Magnificence)  the  other 
in  that  famous  Nurserie  of  Arts  and  Vertue  Saint  Johns  Collbdgs  in 
Cambridge,  which  sometime  knew  you  a  hopefull  Sonne,  but  now 
acknowledgeth  your  Lordship  a  happie  Father,  where  also  the  Author  first 
conceived  with  this  Travelling  Gemus  whereof  (without  travelling)  he  hath 
travelled  ever  since." 

Samuel  Purchtu  (B.D.  of  the  College) ;  Epistk 
dedicatory  to  Bp.  Williams,  Purchas  His 
Pilgrimes,  Vol.  lU.  (1624). 

Professor  Thorold  Rogers  was  well  known  to  monopolise  a  good  deal  of 
the  conversation  alter  dinner.  He  was  once  dining  at  St  John's  College, 
Cambridge,  where  he  had  been  engaged  in  looking  over  some  of  the  historical 
manuscripts,  and  after  dinner,  as  is  the  wont  of  the  College,  the  Fellowt 


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assembled  to  drink  their  wine  in  the  Combination-room.  Professor  Rogers 
talked  incessantly,  and  the  whole  table  listened  with  interest  and  attention  to 
his  amusing  stories,  bnt  no  one  could  even  "get  a  word  in  edgeways.*' 
In  walking  across  the  court  to  his  rooms  with  a  friend  [?  the  Bursar]  when  all 
was  done,  he  remarked,  "  What  capital  company  your  Fellows  are ;  I  never 
knew  people  who  could  sustain  a  conversation  better." 

Cambridge  Wtekly  News, 

Francis  Hawkins,  D.D.—William,  son  of  Francis  Hawkins,  D.D., 
bom  at  Bamelmes,  Surrey,  educated  at  Stamford  Grammar  School  (under 
Mr.  Smith),  was  admitted  a  pensioner  at  St  John's  College,  Cambridge^ 
Tune  26,  1686,  aged  sixteen.  Any  particulars  as  to  William's  parents  and 
nis  subsequent  career  will  confer  an  obligation  upon 

Justin  Simpson. 

Stamford. 

Notes  and  Queries:  November  i,  1890. 

May  I,  1839.  The  Master  of  St  John's  (Dr  Wood)  was  buried  this 
morning.  He  was  a  man  whose  Mathematical  writings  produced  a  great 
change  for  the  better  in  the  studies  of  this  University,  and  they  will  live 
in  history  when  those  books  now  common  will  have  been  forgotten. 

Jf,  Holroyd:  Memorials  of  the  life  of  Dr  Conie,  late  Master 
of  Jesus  College,  p.  iii  (1890). 

May  30,  1843.  ^^  half-past  ten  I  went  to  St  Mary's.  The  sermon 
was  preached  by  Colenso  of  St  John's  from  Rom.  ziiL  I.  He  asserted 
the  doctrine  of  passive  obedience  and  passive  resistance  (sic).  The  sermon 
might,  for  sorrowful  complaining  of  England  past,  present,  and  to  come, 
have  been  preached  by  Jeremiah  the  Prophet. 

Ibid,  p.  216. 

A  story  is  going  the  rounds  to  the  effect  that  Miss  Fawcett's  friends 
were  extremely  anxious  she  should  study  under  the  famous  Fellow  of 
St  John's  who  has  turned  out  so  many  Wranglers  in  his  time,  and  who 
is  the  recognised  coach  of  the  most  successful  candidates  in  each  Mathematical 
Tripos.  This  gentleman,  with  a  fine  contempt  for  all  things  feminine,  is 
reported  to  have  said,  in  reply  to  an  application  to  admit  Miss  Fawcett 
as  one  of  his  students,  "  Of  course,  she  may  attend  my  classes  if  she  likes, 
but  I  am  afraid  I  should  not  be  able  to  make  my  subjects  amusing  to 
ladies:' 

Ladies*  Pictorial :  June  14,  1890. 

»• .  .To  begin  with  the  Venerable  Archdeacon  Prys,  a  man  of  deep  learning 
and  piety,  who  was  educated  at  St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  where  he 
took  his  degree.  He  assisted  Dr  Morgan  in  the  translation  of  the  Welsh 
Bible,  and  from  his  Metrical  Psalms  and  other  productions,  Englynion 
and  Cywyddau^  composed  by  him,  we  have  abundant  evidence  that  he 
was  a  man  of  culture,  taste,  and  capacity ;  and  that  he  possessed  the  religious 
spirit  that  could  enter  into  sympathetic  relations  witn  the  Divine  authors 
cu  the  psalms,  and  interpret  them  from  his  inmost  soul. 
.  • .  .It  was  in  the  year  162 1  that  he  turned  the  psalms  into  a  metrical  shape 
in  order  (as  he  quaintly  puts  it)  "  that  the  Welsh  people  might  be  enabled 
to  praise  God  from  their  hearts."  His  version  of  the  psalms  is  still  used, 
and  though  his  grave  at  Maentwrog  church  is  lost,  the  monument  erected 
by  himselif  time  will  not  ei&ce :  and  the  name  Edmund  Prys  is  as  fresh 
now,  and  more  familiar  to  (Ul  Welshmen,  than  when  he  was  Precentor 
of  St  Asaph  Cathedral. 

W,  Glanffrwd  Thomas  z  Welsh  Hymnology,  Y  Cymmrodor,  1883. 

Mr  John  Morley,  M.P.,  writing  to  Mr  H.  T.  Roby  congratulating  him  on 
the  result  of  the  Eccles  election,  says :— •*  Yon  have  won  the  most  opportune 
and  the  most  important  of  our  victories.  Nothing  could  be  more  splendid, 
coming  just  when  it  did.  I  know  what  a  personal  sacrifice  it  will  be  to  you  to 
come  into  the  House  of  Commons,  but  if  you  can  you  will  very  speedily  make 
a  mark  there.    Anyhow,  we  shall  all  receive  you  with  open  arms,  and  even  the 


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other  side  will  feel  that  the  House  of  Commons  is  all  the  more  reputable 
fbr  your  presence  among  us.'*  Mr  S.  Wood,  Secretary  of  the  Miners* 
Association,  says  that  the  result  is  most  inspiring,  and  adds,  *'  I  know  from 
personal  knowledge  scores  of  miners  known  to  be  Tories  who  voted  with 
our  cause."  Mr  A.  J.  Mundella  welcomes  Mr  Roby,  not  only  on  account 
of  his  politics,  <*but  also  as  coming  to  give  us  such  valiant  aid  to  the 
cause  of  education." 

Times  :  October  28,  1890. 
William  Shawcross>  or  Shalcross,  as  the  name  is  spelt  in  Mayor's 
List  of  Admissions  to  St  John's  College^  Cambridge,  Part  I.  1882  (all  as 
yet  printed),  was  master  of  the  Stamford  Grammar  School,  1662—65; 
succeeded  by  Samuel  Gecry,  1665—73 ;  and  the  latter  by  Joseph  Sedgwick, 
clerk/  who^  by  entries  in  the  parish  registers  of  St  George  s,  Stamford, 
was  Schoolmaster  1678—82,  perhaps  later.  Wanted  to  know  where 
graduated  at  Oxford  (?) ;  also  any  notes  respecting  Joseph  Sedgwick,  rector 
of  Fiskerton,  in  this  county^  ins.  1683,  on  the  presentation  of  the  Dean 
and  Chapter  of  Peterborough,  bur.  July  12,  1702;  also  any  particulars  of 
his  brother  (?^  John  Sedgwick,  rector  of  Poiterhanworth,  1698— 1703/4. 
Joseph  Chevsdlier,  clerk,  ins;  to  the  rectory  of  Tickencote,  Rutland,  Aug.  3, 
1692,  where  graduated,  &c.  Perhaps  he  was  father  to  Rev.  Nathaniel 
Michael  Chevallier,  whose  name  occurs  in  the  parish  register  of  Great 
Casterton,  Rutlandshire,  as  curate  1729^1737.  Answers  sent  direct  >vill 
greatly  oblige. 

Justin  Simpson. 

St  Martin's,  Stamford. 

Notes  and  Queries:  August  t6,  1890. 

Society  of  the  Cambridok  Apostles  (6th  s.  xii.  228).— As  my 
query  at  the  above  reference  was  never  answered,  I  now  send  some 
information  on  the  subject  which  I  have  lately  found.  In  1820  a  certain 
number  of  Cambridge  undergraduates,  who  were  attracted  to  each  other 
by  a  kindred  taste  for  literature  and  free  inquiry,  founded  among  themselves 
at  St  John's  College,  Cambridge,  a  small  society  for  weekly  essays  and 
discussions.  Dr  George  Tomlinson,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Gibraltar,  was 
one  of  the  founders.  In  a  few  years  the  meetings  of  the  Society  were 
removed  to  Trinity  College.  This  gathering  called  itself  a  conversazione 
society,  but  owing  to  the  fact  that  the  number  of  its  resident  members  was 
limited  to  twelve  it  soon  became  known  as  the  Society  of  the  Cambridge 
Apostles.  Among  the  number  of  the  members  were  Bishop  Thirlwall, 
Tennyson,  Charles  BuUer,  Lord  Stanley  (the  late  Earl  of  berby),  Mr. 
Horsman,  Monpkton  Milnes  (the  late  Lord  Houghton),  Spencer  Walpole^ 
Kenneth  Macaulay,  Henry  Lushington,  John  Kemble,  John  Sterling, 
Arthur  Hallam,  Edmund  Lushington,  W.  H.  Thompson  (master  of  Trinity), 
J.  W.  Blakealey  (Canon  of  Canterbury),  Henry  James,  Charles  Merivale, 
Dr  Kennedy,  Dean  Alford,  Archbishop  Trench,  James  Spedding,  Tom 
Taylor,  Arthur  Helps,  Dr  Butler  (head  master  of  Harrow),  F.  W.  Farrar, 
Sir  Frederick  Pollock,  Vernon  Harcourt>  Frederick  Maurice,  Henry  Sumner 
Maine,  and  Fitz James  Stephen. 

Further  paiticulars  of  this  interesting  coterie  may  be  found  in  'The 
Cambridge  Apostles,'  by  W.  D.  Christie,  Mcumillan's  Afagazine,  November, 
1864,  pp.  18-25;  and  *Tulian  Fane,  a  Memoir,*  by  Robert  Lytlon.  1871, 
pp.  23—32.  There  is  also  said  to  have  been,  an  article  in  the  Edinhurgk 
Review^  by  Lord  Houghton,  containing  references  to  the  Cambridge  Apostles. 

George  C.  Boase. 

36,  James  Street,  Buckingham  Gate,  S.W. 

Notes  and  Queries  :  May  i,  1890. 

.'  We  arrived  at  Cambridge  May  ist  (1690),  and  I  was  admitted  of  St 
John's  College.  I  was  then  examined  by  my  Tutor,  then  by  the  Senior 
Dean,  then  by  the  Junior  Dean,  and  then  by  the  Master  (Dr  Gower) ;  who 
all  made  me  construe  but  a  verse  or  two  apiece  of  the  Greek  Testament, 
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Then  I  went  to  the  Registrar  to  be  registered  member  of  the  College.  We 
go  to  Lectures  every  other  day  in  Logic,  and  what  we  hear  one  day  we 
give  an  account  of  the  next.  Besides  we  go  to  the  Tutor's  chamber  every 
night  to  hear  the  Sophs  and  Junior  Sophs  dispute,  and  then  some  one 
is  called  out  to  construe  a  chapter  in  the  New  Testament,  after  which 
we  go  to  prayers,  and  then  to  our  respective  chambers. 

Abraham  de  la  Pryme :  Professor  Pryme's  'Recollections,* 
p.  39  (1879). 

8    ACTOR'S  VINDICATION.— Containing  three  Treatises,    (i)    Their 

Antiquity,  (2)  Their  Dignity,  (3)  The  True  use  of  their  Quality,  by 

Thomas  Heywood,  London,  printed  by  G.  E,  for   IV.  C.  n.d. 

[about  1620]  sm.  410,  choice  calf  extra,  by  Riviire.    4  gns. 

The  ^^ Apology  for  Actors**  with  a  new  title,  now  a  rare!  volume  knd 

of  great  interest    The  author  names  several  of  the  great  actors  of  his  time^ 

Tartelton,  Kemp,  Sly,  Bently,  Singer,  Wilson,  Lanenam,  etc.,  but  strangely 

does  not  include  Shakespeare  and  Jonson.    Mention  is  made  of  the  plays 

of  Henry  V.  and  Richard  III.,  that  Sir  Philip  Sidney  declared  he  had  seen 

"  the  tragedy  of  Richard  III ,  acted  in  St  John's  in  Cambridge  so  essentially 

that  had  the  tyrant  Phalaris  beheld  his  bloody  proceedings,  it  had  mollified 

his  heart  and  made  him  relent  at  the  sight  of  his  mhumane  massacres." 

CatcUogue  of  J,  PV.  Jarvis  and  Son,  Booksellers^ 
28,  King  William  Street,  St/ and,  London, 

Our  college  has  borne  a  full  share  in  the  battle  for  freedom  of  thought. 
To  Burleigh  England  owes  it  that  Elizabeth  escaped  the  fate  of  William 
the  Silent  and  Henry  of  Navarre.  Thomas  Lever,  our  seventh  master^  one 
of  the  Marian  exiles)  *'  a  man,"  says  Baker,  '*  of  as  much  natural  probity 
and  blunt  native  honesty  as  the  college  ever  bred,  had  the  spiiit  of  Hugh 
Latimer;"  our  sixteenth  master,  William  Whitaker,  the  most  leartied  who 
ever  sat  in  that  chair,  more  than  a  match  for  Bellarmine,  raised  the  college 
to  the  rank  of  a  University,  and  won  the  admiration  of  Scaliger.  Add  a  few 
out  of  many.  Bp  Morton*  whose  long  life  stretched  from  near  the  beginning 
of  Elizabeth's  reign  to  near  the  end  of  the  Commonwealth,  whose  reverend 
form  gives  dignity  to  our  hall,  whose  services  to  the  Reformation  raised  a 
scruple  even  in  roundhead  persecutors  :  Overall ;.  Stillingileet,  whose  libraiy 
dud  example  made  Richard  Betitley  possible. 

Shall  I  claim  John  Fisher  ?  I  will  not,  if  you  can  name  another  man  to 
whom  Cambridge  and  the  Reformation  owe  so  much.  He  brought  hither 
Erasmus,  Hebrew,  Greek,  the  Bible;  he  is  himself  an  excellent  textuary. 
May  the  college  never  cease  to  feel  for  him  that  reverence  which  they 
expressed  to  him  in  prison :  •*  Thou  art  our  father,  our  teacher,  our  lawgiver, 
the  pattern  of  all  virtue  and  holiness."  And  may  the  blessing  which  closes 
his  statutes  never  fail  to  descend  on  those  who  meet  here :  *'  When,  saith 
He,  the  Spirit  of  truth  shall  havi  come.  He  will  lead  you  into  all  the  truth. 
But  whom  shall  He  lead  ?  even  the  lowly  and  obedient ;  on  such  He  rests, 
fostering  them  and  refreshing  them  with  consolations  unutterable ;  and  being 
the  porter.  He  opens  and  unlocks  to  them  the  mvsteries  of  Scripture." 

The  coUege  has  many  links  with  the  reformed  churches  beyond  sea.  The 
first  fellow  admitted  by  King  Edward's  visitors  was  an  Italian;  in  1744,  when 
the  great  final  persecution  of  the  desert  churches  began,  Antonio  Ferrari, 
a  Neapolitan  convert,  who  from  the  beginning  of  the  century  had  received 
hospitality  here,  bequeathed  to  us  a  unique  collection  of  early  French  and 
Neapolitan  Reformation  literature,  from  which  ChurchUl  Babington  recovered 
what  Macaulay  lamented  as  beyond  hope,  irrecoverable  as  the  lost  decades 
of  Livy.  In  1762,  the  year  of  the  last  French  martyrdoms,  William  Grove, 
formerly  fellow,  gave  to  the  college  seven  folio  volumes  of  acts  and  documents 
relating  to  the  Protestants  of  France.  When  their  councils  are  published, 
these  manuscripts  will  be  of  signal  service. 

Professor  y.  E.  B,  Mayor:  Sermon  in  the  College 
Chapel  (9  Nov.  1890),  p.  23. 


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The  immediate  effects  of  Sedgwick's  illness  (in  1813)  are  painfully 
apparent  in  the  listlessness  and  want  of  energy  from  which  he  suffered  during 
the  next  two  years,  and  yet  events  took  place  which  under  more  favourable 
circumstances  would  have  furnished  him  Mnth  subjects  for  long  and  entertaining 
narratives.  There  was  the  great  frost  of  January  1814,  when  uo  coal-barges 
could  get  up  the  river,  and  be  was  obliged,  as  he  has  been  often  heard  to  say, 
to  burn  his  gun-case  and  some  of  his  chairs.  Prof.  Pryme  records  {RecoUec- 
turns  p.  113)  that  the  scarcity  of  coal  was  so  great  and  the  cold  so  severe  that 
some  of  the  trees  in  the  grounds  of  St  John's  College  were  cut  down  for  fuel, 
and  at  all  the  Colleges  men  sat  two  or  three  together  in  one  room. 

Clark  and  Hughes :  Life  and  Letters  of  Sedgwick, 
vol  I.,  p.  131  and  footnote  (1890). 

In  a  sketch  of  the  life  of  Dr  John  Woodward,  the  founder  of  the 

Professorshk),  we  read,  that  he  did  go  to  London  while  a  mere  boy 

and  while  there  had  the  good  fortune  to  become  acquainted  with  Dr  Peter 
Barwick,  physician  to  King  Charles  11.  who  received  him  into  his  house  and 
**  took  him  under  his  tuition  in  his  own  family." 

To  this  circumstance  the  general  direction  of  Woodward's  studies  is 
obviously  due ;  and  it  may  be  further  conjectured  that  his  interest  in  the 
University  of  Cambridge  may  have  been  inspired  by  Barwick.  Barwick  had 
been  educated  at  St  John's  College,  where  his  elder  brother  John,  the 
sincere  and  courageous  royalist,  afterwards  successively  Dean  of  Durham 

and  of  St  Paul's,   was  already  Fellow as  a  London 

Physician  he  had  a  large  practice  and  a  well-deserved  reputation,  while  as  a  - 
man  of  science  he  is  known  as  the  defender  of  Harvey's  theory  of  the 
circulation  of  the  blood. 

Ibid:  vol.  I.,  p.  167. 

The  Easter  vacation  of  18 19  was  spent  in  the  Isle  of  Wight  Sedgwick 
was  accompanied  by  Mr  T.  S.  Hcnslow  of  St  John's  College,  who  became 
in  after  years  Professor  first  of  Mineralogy  and  then  of  Botany,  and  who 
deserves  grateful  recognition  as  one  of  the  founders  of  the  modem  School  of 
Natural  Science  at  Cambridge. 

Ibid :  vol.  I.,  p.  204. 

In  a  letter  to  J.  F.  W.  Herschel,  Fellow  of  St  John's  College  (B.A.  1813) 
Sedjgwick  informs  him,  14th  Nov.  1820,  *  the  first  meeting  of  our  Philosophical 
Society  took  place  yesterday  evening.  We  elected  several  new  members, 
and  among  the  rest  the  Rev  J.  Wood  D.D.  Master  of  St  John's.  This  was 
more  than  we  expected  and  certainly  more  than  Dr  Wood  intended  last  year. 
It  seems  as  if  we  had  riben  in  his  good  opinion.' 

Ibid :  vol.  I.,  p.  208  footnote. 

(March  20  1864.  Letter  to  Mr  Barnard) .  Of  my  oldest  stock  of  friends^ 
men  nearly  of  my  own  standing — only  two  are  left  in  Cambridge  and  I  am 

often  compelled  to  live  in  solitude Dr  Clark  is  still  here.    He  and  I 

were  of  the  same  year ;  but  he  has  become  feeble  and  is  very  seldom  .seen. 
Last  year  he  had  a  stroke  of  parai3rsis,  from  which,  however,  he  ii  wonderfully 
recovered,  and  his  mind  is  quite  entire  and  bright.  Romilly  is  still  here,  but 
he  lives  in  a  house  on  the  outsldrts  of  Cambridge  and  never  dines  in  Hall. 
I  now  and  then  go  and  drink  tea  with  him,  when  the  weather  is  mild ;  and 
then  we  talk  of  old  days  and  old  friends  and  have  plenty  of  old-fashioned 

gossip.    He  is  as  kind  and  genial  as  he  ever  was But  if  some 

of  your  old  friends  are  a  httle  the  worse  for  wear,  we  have  a  rising  generation 
full  of  youthful  joys  and  hopes.  And  the  town  is  improving,  the  interior 
of  St  Mary's  Church  is  now  become  beautiful,  and  Golgotha  and  its  wigs  are 
no  longer  to  be  seen.*    All  Saints'  ugly  church  will  soon  be  away,  replaced 

*  Sedgwick  laid  be  would  gladly  offer  himself  as  a  day-labourer  to  help  this  good 
work. 


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by  a  handsome  chnrch  which  is  fast  rising  in  the  garden  opposite  the  gates 
of  Tesus  College.  New  Museums  and  Lecture  Rooms  are  rising  up  in  the 
Old  Botanic  Garden.  The  Fellows  of  St  John's  will  cut  us  all  out.  They 
haye  swept  away  one  side  of  a  street ;  and  are  building  a  Chapel,  which, 
when  fini^edy  will  be  the  most  perfect  Gothic  structure  of  our  times. 

Ibid  :  vol.  II.,  pp.  401-402. 

In  the  course  of  this  year  (1869)  the  question  of  the  abolition  of  University 
Tests  had  once  more  come  to  the  front ;  and  a  meeting  of  those  in  favour  of 
such  a  measure  was  held  at  St  John's  College  Lodge  (29th  Nov.)  with  the 
view  of  discussing  the  most  appropriate  method  of  bringing  their  views  under 
the  notice  of  the  Government.  Sedgwick,  as  one  of  the  few  survivors  of 
those  who  had  made  an  unsucc^sful  movement  in  the  same  direction  is 
1834,  was  of  course  invited  to  be  present.  It  was  a  question  respecting 
wluch  his  views  had  undergone  no  change,  and  be  eagerly  accepted  the 
invitation.    TJie  first  resolution  was  proposed  by  the  Master  of  Trinity  : 

That  in  the  opinion  of  tnis  meeting  the  time  has  come  for 

settling  the  question  of  University  Tests ;  that  the  mode  in  which 

this  question  is  dealt  with  in  the  Permissive  Bill  introduced  by  Sir 

J.  Coleridge  is  open  to  grave  objections;    and  that  any  measure 

designed  to  effect  such  a  settlement  should  include  an  enactment 

that  no  declaration  of  religious  belief  or  profession  shall  be  required 

of  any  layman  on  obtaining  a  Fellowship,  or  as  a  condition  of  its 

tenure. 

This  was  seconded  by  Sedgwick,  who  gave  a  brief  history  of  University 

tests — with  a  graphic  account  of  the  movement  of  1834— and  ended  with 

some  such  words  as  these:  <* Though  I  have  outlived  my  friends,  and  now 

belong  to  no  party,  I  have  not  outlived  my  love  of  liberty.    I  believe  that 

the  removal  of  tests  would  tend  to  perpetuate  our  great  institutions.    Fears 

have  been  expressed  of  the  possible  predominance  of  Dissenters.    That  is  a 

white-livered  opinion.     If  Dissenters  should  command  a  predominance  of 

the  intellect  of  the  Nation,  let  them  take  the  place  to  which  they  are 

entitled.    I  am  a  churchman  because  I  believe  the  Church  of  England  to  be 

right ;   but  I  deprecate  the  University  hiding  itself  in  any  little  nook  of 

prejudice  out  of  the  general  spirit  of  the  community. 

This  was  Sedgwick*s  last  appearance  on  a  pubhc  occasion  in  Cambridge. 

Ibid:  vol.  il.,  p.  451. 

At  the  end  of  October  a  meeting  of  the  Governing  Bodies  of  the  Colleges 
was  held  in  the  Arts*  School,  to  discuss  the  statutes  proposed  by  the. 
Commissioners.  It  would  be  beside  our  present  purpose  to  discuss  this 
complex  question ;  and  we  only  notice  it  so  far  as  Sedgwick  was  concerned 
with  it.  The  Commissioners  had  suggested,  among  other  changes,  that 
**  Any  Fellow  should  vacate  his  Fellowship  at  the  end  of  ten  years  after 
obtaining  the  full  standing  of  Master  of  Arts,  except  in  certain  specified 
cases."  This  was  opposed  by  the  Master  of  St  John's  College,  Dr  Bateson. 
Sedgwick  seconded  nis  motion.  It  will  be  interesting,  having  regard  to  the 
measures  since  adopted,  to  note  the  line  he  took.  "  He  looked,"  he  said, 
**  upon  his  Fellowship  as  a  freehold.  It  was  a  proud  day  for  him  when  he 
was  made  a  Fellow  of  Trinity ;  he  felt  that  he  possessed  something  which 
he  had  pained  honourably,  and  which  he  could  look  forward  to  as  bearing 
upon  his  success  in  life.  Most  men  had  that  feeling,  and  he  could  not 
conceive  anything  more  degrading  than  to  make  it  a  terminable  annuity. 
He  had  been  a  Fellow  for  a  long  time,  for  it  was  now  fifty-four  years  since 
he  was  a  fireshman ;  but  his  conscience  did  not  accuse  him  of  bemg  an  idle 
Fellow.  "With  respect  to  the  line  which  he  had  taken,  whether  wise  or 
unwise,  good  or  baa,  he  could  not  have  taken  it  if  his  Fellowship  had  not 
been  a  freehold.  This  might  be  egotistical,  but  let  every  man  speak  from 
his  own  experience.  He  had  his  Fellowship  to  rest  upon,  for  there  was  no 
great  harvest  fi-om  his  Professorship.  He  still  held  his  Fellowship;  in  a 
few  months  he  intended  to  resign  his  Professorship  and  retire  i^on  his 


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freehold.  This  was  an  example,  and  he  had  a  right  to .  speak  of  it.  He 
belieyed  that  with  a  modification  of  circumstances  the  same  sentiments  applied 
to  many  around  him.  He  believed,  with  the  Master  of  St  John's,  that  the 
proposition  of  the  Commissioners  would  tend  to  the  moral  degradation  of 
the  di£ferent  societies ;  it  would  encourage  favouritism,  and  all  those  points 
which  lowered  the  moral  standard  of  academic  bodies." 

Ibid:  vol.  ii.,  pp.  345-6w 

Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club. 

At  a  General  Meeting  held  on  June  ii  the  following- 
officers  were  elected:  First  Captain — P.  E.  Shaw;  Second 
Captain — J.  A.  Cameron;  First  Lent  Captain — A.  T.  Wallis ; 
Second  Lent  Captain — F.  M.  Smith;  Hon.  Treasurer—^,  Long; 
Hon.  SecretatyS.  B.  Reid;  Additional  Captains—C.  E.  Ray, 
W.  D.  Jones.  F.  G.  E.  Field. 

Freshman's  Sculls :  These  Sculls  were  rowed  for  on  Monday, 
June  13.    There  were  three  entries: 

2nd  station--C.  D.  Edwards  •  •  • I 

1st       „         C.  Warner 2 

3rd      „         F.M.Smith o 

Edwards  gained  steadily,  and  at  Ditton  was  close  on  Warner, 
Up  the  Long  Reach  Edwards  lost  slightly,  but  won  easily  by 
50  yards.  Smith  broke  a  scull  soon  after  starting  and  had 
to  stop. 

University  Coxwainless  Fours  \  These  races  took  place  oa 
5th,  6th,  and  7th  of  November.  Our  crew  was  beaten  on  the 
first  day  by  Trinity  Hall,  who  eventually  won  the  event. 
Trinity  Hall's  time  was  10  min.  58  sec. 

The  following  made  up  the  four  : 

St.  lbs. 

^^mrS.B.Reid •.   ii       7 

2    G.  P.  Davys 1 1      8 

•3    J.A.Cameron 12       I 

^/r<?>fe*  C.  E.  Ray    11      2 

•  Steered. 

Heat  IL  Third  Trinity  beat  Clare  by  more  than  80  yards. 
Time  1 1  min.  29  sec. 

Heat  HL  Trinity  Hall  almost  bumped  Emmanuel  and  won 
by  80  yards.     Time  1 1  min.  5  sec. 

Heat  IV.  Third  Trinity  beat  Pembroke  by  40  yards.  Time 
1 1  min.  22  sec. 

Final  Heat.  Trinity  Hall  beat  Third  Trinity  easily.  Time 
1 1  min.  27  sec. 

Pearson  and  Wright  Sculls:  There  were  only  two  entries, 
C.  D.  Edwards,  who  won  the  Freshmen's  Sculls  in  June,  and 
H.  C.  Langley  a  Freshman. 

2nd  station— H.  C.  Langley   i 

1st        „         C.  D.  Edwards o 

Langley  won  by  80  yards.    Time  9  min.  31  sec. 


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Colquhoun  Sculls  i  L.  M.  B.  C.  had  two  competitors*  Shaw 
was  thought  to  have  a  good  chance  of  winning,  but  was  put  out 
in  the  first  heat. 

The  races  were  on  Nov.  19th  and  20th. 

Ifcat  /, 

lonides  (Clare) t 

Croall  (1st  Trinity) 2 

Young  (Sdwyn) 3 

Won  by  80  yards.    Time  8  min.  38J  sec. 

If  eat  IL 

ind  station— Gaddum  ( ist  Trinity)    i 

3rd       »,         P.  E.  Shaw  (L.M.B»C.)   2 

1st       „         Langley  (L.M.B.C.) 3 

This  was  a  splendid  race,  and  was  only  won  by  about  2  feet. 
At  Ditton  Shaw  lost  slightly,  but  gained  again  in  the  Long 
Reach.  He  could  not  quite  catch  Gaddum  and  was  beaten  by 
2  feet.  Langley  sculled  very  well  and  kept  his  distance  from 
Gaddum  up  to  Ditton.    Time  8  min.  28  sec. 

Heat  ///. 

1st  station— G.  Elin  (3rd  Trinity) i 

3rd      „         Fawkes  (Trinity  Hall)   3 

2nd     ,»        Boyle  (jesus) ••••••••..  3 

A  runaway  race  for  Elin.    Time  8  min.  39  sec. 

Final  Heat, 

3rd  station— Elin  (3rd  Trinity) i 

2nd      „         lonides  (Clare)    t 

1st       „        Gaddam  (1st  Trinity)    ••••3 

Elin  won  by  more  than  100  yards.    Time  8  min.  9  sec. 

Trial  Eights:  These  were  rowed  on  Saturday,  Nov.  29th, 
there  being  snow  on  the  path  and  ice  on  the  water»  though  not 
enough  to  interfere  with  racing. 

In  the  Senior  Trials  two  competed : 

1st  station— Langley's  eight  (coached  by  Cameron  and  Reid) 
2nd     „        Allen's         „    (coached  by  Shaw  and  Long) 

The  latter  crew  shewed  to  greater  advantage  in  the  race 
partly  because  they  maintained  a  quicker  stroke.  They  had  a 
length  to  the  good  in  the  Plough  Reach.  The  struggle  Was 
very  well  maintained  by  both  boats,  and  eventually  Allen's  won 
a  severe  race  by  three-quarters  of  a  length. 

The  winners  were  as  follows : 

Bow  H.  A.  King 

2  W.  B.  Morton 

3  D.  M.  Turner 

4  F.G.E.  Field 

5  W.  R.  Le  Sueitf 

6  G.  D.  Hessey 

7  J.A.Telford 
Stroked .  J.  AUen 

Cox  P.  A.  Kingsford 

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Four  crews  entered  for  the  Junior  Trials,  so  the  racing 
consisted  of  two  preliminary  heats  and  a  final. 

Beat  I. 
1st  station — Laming's  crew  (coached  hy  Shaw) 
2nd     „        I^amb's       „    (coached  by  Davys) 

No.  4  in  the  Second  crew  broke  his  oar  at  starting,  but  the 
seven  remaining  oars  were  so  well  handled  that  the  crew  only 
lost  by  two  lengths. 

fftat  IL 
ist  station— Brooke's  crew  (coached  by  Smith) 
2nd     „         Draper's     „    (coached  by  Wallis) 

The  latter  crew  had  superior  strength,  and  so  gained  at 
once  and  at  Grassy  had  two  lengths  advantage,  but  they  fell 
back  then,  and  going  slower  in  the  Long  Reach  lost  by 
one  length. 

Fi$ud  Heat. 
1st  station — Brooke's  crew 
2nd     „        Laming's  „ 

This  was  a  very  close  race.  Laming's  crew  had  an  advantage 
of  one  length  at  Grassy,  but  were  behind  after  Ditton,  and  only 
won  by  three  feet  by  sustained  spurting  near  home. 

The  winners  were : 

Bow  H.  E.  Mason 

2  E.  W.  Mac  Bride 

3  W.N.  Maw 

4  T.  J.  Alexander 

5  W.  G.  Wrangham 

6  C.  Moore 

7  J.H.Pegg 
StrokeW.  C.  Laming 

C9X  W.  J.  Fox 

A  new  light  eight  ship  being  required  by  the  Club,  the 
Committee  decided  to  buy  from  the  C.U.B.C.  the  racing  eight 
of  1 888,  but  A.  R.  Pennington  has  generously  paid  the  cost  of 
the  ship  and  presented  her  to  the  Club. 

Long  Vacation  Crickbt  Club. 

The  following  officers  were  elected : 

Ca^tain^J.  H.  C.  Fegan.  Hon,  Secntary^A.  E.  Elfiott. 

We  played  13  matches,  of  which  i  was  won,  2  were  lost, 
and  10  were  drawn.  We  were  very  unfortunate  in  drawing 
several  of  the  matches,  which  we  should  have  won  had  there 
been  time  to  finish  them. 

The  following  were  the  matches  played  : 

7ufy  18  and  19,  V.  Trinity,  played  on  our  ground,  resulting  in  a  draw. 
St  John's,  1st  innings,  165  (Fegan  62»  Hutchinson  33  not  out) ;  2nd  innings, 
36  for  4  wickets.  Trinity,  ist  innings,  237  for  5  wickets  (innings  declared 
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yufy  21,  22,  aud2it  V,  King's  and  Clare,  played  on  their  gtcmid,  resulting 
in  a  draw.  King's  and  Clare,  ist  Innings,  153 ;  2nd  innings,  243  for  6  wickets. 
St  John's,  1st  innings,  95  ;  2nd  innings,  160  for  4  wickets  (Fegan  68  not  out, 
Jones  47). 

yuly  25  and  26,  v.  Corpus  and  Queens',  played  on  our  ground,  resulting 
in  a  draw.  St  John's,  i&t  innings,  115  (Hutchinson  22) ;  2nd  innings,  89  for 
6  wickets,  innings  then  declared  closed  (Fegan  55,  F.  L.  Thompson  27}. 
Corpus  and  Queens',  1st  innings,  74 ;  2nd  innings,  76  for  6  wickets. 

^uly  28  and  29,  v.  Christ's  and  £mmanuel,  pUyed  on  our  ground,  resulting 
in  a  draw.  St  John's,  1st  innings,  301  (Fegan  160,  Elliott  46,  T.  L.  Jackson 
45).    Christ's  and  Emmanuel,  ist  innings,  1 15 ;  2nd  innings,  54  for  4  wickets. 

7ufy  31  and  Aug.  I,  v.  Caius,  played  on  their  ground,  resulting  in  a  draw. 
St  John's,  1st  innings,  130  (Fegan  46,  King  24).  Caius,  ist  innings,  199; 
2n<i  innings,  102  for  3  wickets. 

Aug,  4,  V.  South  Hampstead,  j)layed  on  our  ground,  resulting  in  a  crushing 
defeat  for  the  home  team.  St  John's,  1st  innings,  57.  Souu  Hampstead, 
1st  innings,  229  (F.  W.  Tew  61,  Harmell  58  not  out). 

Aug,  6,  V,  Peri[)atetics,  played  on  our  ground,  resulting  in  a  draw.  St 
John's,  247  for  8  wickets,  innings  declared  closed  (Fegan  47,  F.  L.  Thompson 
44,  King  40  not  out).  Peripatetics,  133  for  3  wickets  (T.  H.  C.  Levicl  79 
not  out). 

Aug.  7  and  8,  v.  Pembroke  and  Trinity  Hall,  played  on  our  pound, 
resulting  in  a  draw.  St  John's,  1st  innings,  131  (Moore  42) ;  2nd  innmgs,  98 
for  2  wickets  (Elliott  47  not  out,  F.  L.  Thompson  33).  Pembroke  and  Trinity 
Hall,  1st  innings,  216. 

Aug.  II  and  12,  V.  Christ's  and  Emmanuel,  played  on  our  ground,  result* 
ing  in  a  draw.  St  John's,  1st  innings,  196  (Moulton  52,  Fegan  45);  2nd 
innings,  33  for  3  wickets.    Christ's  and  Emmanuel,  1st  innings,  138. 

Aug.  13  and  14,  V.  United  Servants,  played  on  our  ground,  resulting  in 
a  draw.  St  John's,  1st  innings,  273  (Moore  91,  Moulton  56,  Elliott  39  not 
out).  United  Servants,  ist  innings  171.  In  the  United  Servants  innings. 
King  took  all  10  wickets  for  75  nms. 

Avf.  15,  V.  College  Servants,  played  on  our  ground,  resulting  in  a  win  for 
the  CoUege  team.  St  John's,  ist  innings,  329  (Moulton  112,  Hutchinson  64 
not  out,  Fegan  58).    CoUege  Servants,  1st  innings,  66  (Coulson  31). 

Auf.  18  and  19,  v.  Cambridge  Victoria,  resulting  in  a  draw.  St  John's, 
1st  innmgs,  159  (Elliott  41,  Cameron  26).    Victoria,  ist  innings,  253. 

Aug,  20,  21,  and  22,  V.  Trinity,  played  on  their  ground,  resulting  in  a 
win  for  the  home  team.  St  John's,  1st  innings,  loi  (Owen  18);  2nd  innings, 
100  (Fegan  37,  Hutchinson  25).    Trinity,  ist  innings,  114;  2nd  innings,  90. 

Batting  Averages. 

No.  of  Most  in  No.  of        Times 

Name.  runs.  Innings.       Innings.      not  out.  Average. 

J.  H.  C  Fegan  676  z6o    z8    1   39.ZJ 

A.  £.  Elliott  1 278  47* z5    3  aj.a 

C.  Moore 239  .........    92    lO 4  . 

F.L.  Thompson ^ 146  44    8    —  . 

T.L.  Jackson  156  45    zz    1  Z5.6 

T.  P.lCing z6z  40* Z4    z   Z2.5 

J.  A.  Cameron  « 73  26    o    a  zo.z 

C.  D.  Henry  64  z8    8    z   9.Z 

G.  C.  Jackson    zz3  x8    Z4    z   8.9 

C.  E.  Owen 57  z8    zo    a     .  «  ...  7.Z 

W.C.  Laming  33  Z3    7    -*- 3'a 

*  Signifies  not  out. 

Bowling  Averages. 

Runs.  Wicketa.  Average. 

T.P.King  70a    49    Z4  z6 

T.L.Jackson 176    zo    Z7.6 

J.  H.  C.  Fegan  447    25    Z7.22 

A.  E.  Elliott  299    Z4    21.5 

J.  A.  Cameron  470    az    aa.l 


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Rugby  Union  Football  Club. 

Thus  far  the  Fifteen  have  more  than  satisfied  the  expectations 
we  formed  of  them  at  the  beginning  of  the  season. 

Among  the  freshmen  there  was  no  lack  of  quantity,  but  the 
quality  seemed  only  average.  During  the  Term  however  Rae 
at  three-quarters,  Ealand  at  half-back,  Joyce  and  Robinson 
forward,  have  considerably  improved. 

Two  changes  have  been  made  with  no  little  success.  Fegan 
leaving  his  place  at  half  has  well  supplied  our  lack  of  a  middle 
three-quarter:  while  Draper,  who  last  year  was  tried  as  a 
three-quarter,  has  turned  out  a  capital  back. 

As  yet  we  have  only  played  seven  college  matches,  two  of 
which  we  have  lost,  while  five  have  been  victories. 

V.  Pembroke.  Won  by  four  goals  4  tries  to  one  goal. 
Tries  were  obtained  by  Fegan  (3),  Jackson  (3),  Wallis  and  Rae. 

p.  Caius.  Lost  by  one  try  to  two  tries.  Try  obtained  by 
Rae.    Absent — Wallis. 

».  Clare.  Lost  by  three  goals  three  tries  to  nil.  Absent — 
Jackson  and  Longman. 

V,  Christ's.  Won  by  three  tries  to  one  try.  Tries  obtained 
by  Rae  (2),  Fegan.    Absent — Wallis  and  Longman. 

V.  Trinity  Hall.  Won  by  three  goals  three  tries  to  nil. 
Tries  obtained  by  Jackson  (3),  Fegan  and  Rae.  Fegan  also 
dropped  a  goal. 

V.  Corpus.  Won  by  two  goals  three  tries  to  nil.  Tries 
obtained  by  Rae  (2),  Fegan,  Lupton  and  Powys.  Absent — 
Elliott  and  Long. 

r.  Selwyn,  Won  by  three  goals  one  try  to  one  try.  Tries 
obtained  by  Jackson  ^2)  and  Fegan,  the  latter  also  dropped 
a  goal.    Absent — Wallis,  Elliott,  Long,  and  Rae. 

The  Second  Fifteen  have  beaten  Emmanuel  Second  and 
Peterhouse,  while  they  have  lost  to  Caius  Second,  Jesus  Second, 
and  Sidney  Sussex,  The  return  match  with  Caius  Second  was 
drawn. 

Total  points  for  29. 
Total  points  against  ii. 

Association  Football  Club. 

Captain^Q.  H.  Tovey.  Hon^  Sec.—T^.  Stephens. 

Matches  played  14;  won  10,  lost  i.  Goals  for,  44;  goals 
against,  9. 

It  is  with  the  greatest  pleasure  that  we  chronicle  the  record 
of  the  Association  Team  this  Term,  as  it  is  many  years  since 
we  had  so  successful  a  season.  With  7  old  colours  in  residency 
it  was  thought  that  we  should  be  "  bad  to  beat,"  and  such  has 
proved  to  be  the  case,  for  we  have  only  lost  one  match  (viz. 
V.  Clare  in  the  2nd  round  of  the  Inter-Collegiate  Cup  Ties), 
our  opponents  winning  a  hard-fought  game,  in  which  we  had 
not  the  better  of  the  luck,  by  2  goals  to  i. 


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Of  the  forwards  Barraclough  is  decidedly  the  pick,  his  passing 
being  good  and  his  shooting  excellent,  as  the  fact  of  his  having 
shot  19  out  of  the  44.  goals  we  scored  will  shew.  The  other 
forwards  are  all  good  in  mid-field,  but  have  displayed  a 
lamentable  weakness  in  front  of  goal.  The  halves,  especially 
Stephens,  have  shewn  good  defensive  powers,  but  are  all  rather 
apt  to  keep  too  far  behind  their  forwards.  The  backs  are  both 
good  and  have  played  consistently  well  throughout  the  season ; 
they  are  perhaps  rather  too  fond  of  conceding  their  opponents' 
corner-kicks.  In  goal  Sargent  has  been  very  good  and .  has 
fully  upheld  the  reputation  he  brought  with  him.  /.  H,  Reeves, 
A,  W.  White,  W,  N,  Shene,  and  H,  Sargent  have  received  their 
colours,  and  the  team  has  been  made  up  as  follows : 

H.  Sargent,  Goal  H.  C.  Barraclough  \ 

C.  H.  Tovey  \  f.^^,  H.  Roughton  i 

G.C.Jackson         /  ^^^  C.  WaUis  }   Forwards 

S.  Stephens  )  J.  H.  Reeves  \ 

H.  A.  P.  Gardiner  J  Half-backs  W.  N.  Shene  / 

A.  W.  White         ) 

Matches  played : — First  XI. 

Date.  Club,  Goals  for      against, 

Tuesday     Oct.  14.... Old  Carthusians Won  ....3 i 

Saturday     „      1 8..  ..Trinity  Rest Won  ..  ..4,.,,,,  2 

Thursday    „      23....Christs    Won. ...8 I 

Tuesday      „      28 ....  Trinity  Hall  (cup  tie)    ..Won  ,,..5 o 

Thursday     „      30..  ..Petfabroke Won,..,i o 

Saturday  Not.     I.. .  .Trinity  Hall    Won  ....9 o 

Tuesday      „       4....Selwyn    Won  ....4 o 

Monday       „      10., .  .Clare  (cup  tie) Lost    ....i 2 

Tuesday      „      1 1 . . . .  Maj^dalene Won, ...5 2 

Thursday     ,,      13 . . .  .Jesus    , .  .Won  ....  2 I 

Tuesday      „      18.. . .Emmanuel Won  ....2......  o 

Second  XI. — Matches  played  7  ;  won  2,  lost  5. 

Tuesday  Oct.  21 . . .  .Clare  II. Lost   . , . .  i 2 

Thursday  „      23....W.  N.  Cobbold's  XI.  ..Lost    ....2 ii 

Saturday  „      25. .  ..Peterhouse  II Won  ,,,,5 o 

Tuesday  „      28.... Trinity  Rest  II Lost    ...,i 4 

Thursday  Nov.  13..  ..Jesus  II Lost    ....2 6 

Saturday  ,»      15 . . .  .Caius  II Lost    ....1 6 

-     Thursday  „      2o....Fitzwilliam  Hall    Won.... 3 2 


Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

The  Double  Ties  this  Term  have  been  won  by  W.  L. 
Bentball  and  C.  Goodman.  Their  opponents  in  the  final 
were  H.  Lees  and  H.  S.  Willcocks. 

The  officers  for  this .  Term  are :  Captain,  C.  E.  Owen, 
Hon.  Sec,  St  J.  B.  Wynne-Willson,  ffon,  Treas.,  H.  S.  Willcocks, 
Members  of  Committee,  P.  F.  Barton,  F.  Dadina,  B.  H.  Lees, 
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General  Athletic  Club. 

The  Club  is  in  fairly  solvent  condition,  but  it  should  be 
remembered  by  third  year  men  that  it  is  not  less  necessary 
for  them  to  belong  to  the  Club  than  it  is  for  Freshmen. 

The  balance  sheet  for  the  year  is  appended : 
Balance  Sheet  for  the  year  1889—90. 


Receipts.  £   s,  d. 
Balance  in  Bank,  Septem- 
ber 11,  1889 5918  o 

Subscriptions 573    8  o 


jf633    6    o 


Expenditure.  £   s. 
Deficit  from  Long  Vaca- 
tion, 1889 II    3 

Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club.  360    9 

Cricket  Club    .'.  98    o 

Football  Club 35  18 

AthleUcCIub 32    o 

Lawn  Tennis  Club 68  15 

Lacrosse  Club ...«  5     i 

Palmer  (printing)    ..••••  l  14 
Hills  &  Saunders  (albums, 

&c.) : 8   7 

Carey  (collecting)    9    o 

Minor. expenses    •......•  on 

Balance  m  Bank,  Oct.  i, 

1890 2    5 


Balance  in  Bank,  Sept.  1 1, 

1889 52    2    o 


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Alfred  Harker,  Treasurer. 
Audited  and  found  correct,  f  R.  F.  ScoTT, 
.  20  October,  1890.         (  P.  £.  Shaw. 

Long  Vacation  Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

The  result  of  the  matches  played  during  the  Long  Vacation 
was  fairly  satisfactory.  Fourteen  matches  were  played,  of  which 
we  won  nine  and  lost  five  (viz.  Shelford  twice,  Cambridge 
L.  T.  C,  St  Ives,  and  Pembroke,  in  which  match  we  were  not 
playing  a  full  team).  In  all  the  matches  which  we  lost,  except 
that  against  Pembroke,  we  were  opposed  by  past  members  of 
our  own  College,  amongst  whom  were  G.  £.  D.  Brown  and 
C.  E.  Green. 

The  team  was  made  up  as  follows:  Captain,  B.  Wynne- 
Willson,  Secretary,  F.  D.  Hessey,  B.  H.  Lees,  F.  Dadina, 
F.  R.  Dinnis,  H.  S.  Willcocks. 

Besides  the  above  mentioned,  G.  E.  D.  Brown,  C.  E.  Green, 
L.  H.  K.  Bushe-Fox,  J.  Lupton,  A.  Foxley,  and  C.  H.  Blomfield, 
played  for  the  team. 

The  doubles  were  won  by  B.  H.  Lees  and  A.  E.  Elliott. 
Singles  (Handicap)  A.  E.  Elliott. 


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Lacrosse  Club. 

We  are  glad  to  be  able  to  report  that  the  prospects  of  the 
Lacrosse  Club  are  looking  brighter  this  year  than  they  have 
done  for  some  time  past,  and  that  the  numbers  who  have  joined 
this  Term  are  more  numerous  than  usual.  Next  Term,  when 
football  will  be  over,  we  hope  to  be  able  to  turn  out  a  fairly 
strong  team.  Two  college  matches  have  been  played  this 
season. 

JohtCs  V.  Trinity : — The  following  team  was  selected  to  play 
for  us :  Lupton,  Villy,  Lees,  Grenville,  Brooks,  Bythell,  Hutton, 
Stone,  Kidd,  Sandall,  Gedye,  Benthall.  After  a  somewhat 
crowded  game.  Trinity  won  by  seven  goals  to  two. 

Trinity  v.  Rest: — In  the  match  the  following  Johnians  played 
for  the  Rest :  Lupton,  Villy,  Lees,  Grenville,  Brooks,  and 
Warren.  The  result  was  that  Trinity  lost  by  four  to  five,  after 
a  close  match. 

In  conclusion  we  may  state  that  Lupton,  Villy,  Lees,  Warren, 
Grenville,  and  Brooks  have  played  for  the  'Varsity  in  various 
matches. 

4TH  (Camb.  Univ.)  Volunteer  Battalion:  The  Suffolk 

Regiment. 

B  Company. 

The  Company  has  still  a  Captain,  but  no  Subalterns  or 
Sergeants,  and  is  somewhat  lacking  in  life  and  enterprise.  We 
look  to  our  recruits  to  instill  the  necessary  vigour  into  our 
frame.  The  official  'state'  of  the  Company  can  be  seen  in  the 
Orderly  Room.  (Friends  will  please  accept  this,  the  only, 
intimation.) 

It  is  understood  that  Captain  Hill  attended  one  of  the 
meetings  of  the  great  Medicine  Man  who  visited  Cambridge 
at  the  commencement  of  the  Term.  The  resulting  Sequahlae 
have  confined  him  to  his  rooms,  and  so  he  has  not  been  able 
to  give  that  attention  to  our  affairs  which  is  required  if  we  are 
to  attain  unto  success  and  the  Efficiency  Cup. 

Private  Nunns  represented  us  at  Bisley  in  the  eight  which 
shot  against  Oxford  for  the  Chancellors'  Plate.  His  score  at 
the  three  ranges  was  70.  In  the  Four  which  shot  for  the 
Humphry  Cup  we  had  two  representatives.  Privates  Nunns  and 
Cordeauz,  whose  scores  were  187  and  135  respectively. 

As  regards  the  Term's  work  we  have  had  one  Battalion 
Parade,  when  the  new  Attack  was  practised  from  the  direction 
of  Grantchester.  The  Cyclist  Section  and  the  Signallers  have 
been  busy  this  Term,  and  there  have  been  classes  in  Judging 
Distance  Drill  and  Range  Finding. 

In  August  last  Lt  Col  W.  Marsden,  an  old  member  of  the 
Company  (sworn  in  15  October  i860.  Lance  Corporal  May 
1861,   B.A.   1864),   was  appointed  Secretary  to  the  National 


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Rifle  Association  in  succession  to  Mr  A.  P.  Humphry,  formerly 
our  Commanding  OflQcer.  We  regret  to  learn  that  Col  Marsden 
has  since  been  obliged  to  resign  the  office. 

Major  Scott  has  been  granted  the  proficiency  Certificate  on 
Army  Form  E.  512  at  Wellington  Barracks. 

A  new  Order  has  been  issued  for  the  Volunteers.  In  future 
no  Volunteer  will  earn  the  grant  unless  he  appears  at  the 
Inspection  with  a  Great  Coat  and  the  Slade- Wallace  or  some 
similar  'Equipment.'  Great  Coats  are  to  be  issued  free  of 
charge.  If  new  coats  are  drawn,  an  allowance  of  zs  per  coat 
will  be  made  after  six  years,  for  maintenance.  If  '  half  worn ' 
coats  are  drawn  the  allowance  will  be  made  after  the  expiry 
of  three  years.  A  grant  of  i  %s  per  man  will  be  made  to  enable 
the  corps  to  purchase  'equipment.'  As  the  minimum  cost  of  the 
equipment  at  the  nearest  sweating  establishment  is  20^  per 
head,  our  Finance  Committee  has  a  new  problem  in  the  higher 
arithmetic  to  tackle.  The  difficulty  is  most  inopportune,  as, 
owing  to  the  increased  rent  we  have  to  pay  for  our  Range  and 
Parade  Ground  and  the  loss  of  the  Polo  Club  as  tenants,  we 
seem  to  be  in  financial  shallows. 

Dbbating  Society. 

President:  E.  W.  MacBride.  Vice-President:  G.  D.  Kempt.  Treasurer: 
G.  H.  R.  Garcia.  Secretary:  F.  M.  Smith.  CommitUe;  W.  B.  Morton, 
H.  E.  Mason. 

The  meetings  of  the  Society  have  been  very  large  this  Term< 
partly  owing  to  an  influx  of  new  members,  partly  also  to  the 
interesting  and  comprehensive  programme.  Several  new 
speakers  of  decided  promise  have  come  forward,  so  that  on 
the  whole  the  outlook  for  next  term  is  very  promising.  The 
financial  state  of  affairs  is  more  than  satisfactory. 

The  subjects  for  Debate  this  Term  "were : 

Oct,  II — "That  this  House  does  not  approve  of  Disestablish- 
ment.*' Proposer  A.  W.  Flux  B.A.  Opposer  A.  J.  Pitkin* 
Carried  by  18  to  6. 

Oct,  18 — "That  in  the  opinion  of  this  House  Mr  Balfour's 
Coercive  Policy  in  Ireland  is  deserving  of  the  most  emphatic 
censure."  Proposer  P.  Green.  Opposer  F.  O.  Sturgess.  Lost 
by  9  to  19. 

Oct,  25 — "That  in  the  opinion  of  this  House  any  system 
of  Elementary  Education  which  does  not  comprise  religious 
instruction  is  inadequate  to  the  requirements  of  the  age." 
Proposer  A.  J.  Pitkin.  Opposer  T.  R.  Glover.  Carried  by 
15  to  13. 

Nffo.  I — "That  in  the  opinion  of  this  House  a  system  of 
State  Socialism  is  the  only  means  by  which  life  can  ever  be 
fully  realised  for  the  majority  of  mankind."  Proposer  T. 
Nicklin  B.A.     Opposer  H.  Drake.    Lost  by  12  to  9. 


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Ntm,  8 — **That  this  House  would  approve  of  the  total 
prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic."  Proposer  W.  B.  Morton. 
Opposer  H.  E.  Mason.     Lost  by  ig  to  16. 

N(w,  15 — "That  this  House  does  not  feel  justified  in 
condemning  gambling  as  immoral."  Proposer  G.  D.  Kempt. 
Opposer  A.  C.  Deane,  Clare.     Carried  by  8  to  7. 

NffD.  22 — "That  this  House  would  view  with  approval  the 
abolition  of  the  House  of  Lords."  Proposer  A.  S.  Tetley  B.A. 
Opposer  F.  Dewsbury.    Adjourned  till  Nov.  29th. 

Nov,  29 — The  Debate  on  A.  S.  Tetle/s  motion  was  continued 
and  finally  the  motion  was  lost  by  14  to  25. 

The  average  attendance  has  been  48. 

Musical  Society. 

This  Society  has  been  steadily  improving,  and  we  feel  sure 
that  at  the  present  moment  it  is  one  of  the  most  popular 
Societies  in  the  College. 

Financially,  the  Society  is  in  a  far  better  condition  than  it 
has  been  for  years,  and  we  sincerely  hope  that  this  may 
continue.  Three  very  successful  Smoking  Concerts  have  been 
given  this  Term  at  which  Mr  Caldecott,  Mr  Marr,  and  Mr  Scott 
very  kindly  presided.  These  Concerts  have  become  so  popular 
t|iat  on  some  occasions  the  room  was  crowded  to  inconvenience,, 
and  extra  seats  had  to  be  procured. 

During  the  Term  some  Members  of  the  Society  gave  a 
Concert  at  Toynbee  Hall  to  a  large  and  highly  appreciative 
audience. 

It  has  been  arranged  to  give  our  Saturday  Popular  Concert 
in  the  Guildhall  on  January  24,  1891. 

The  following  are  the  officers  for  the  Term : 

President— Dx  Sandys.  Treasurer—  Rev  A.  J.  Stevens  M.A.  Secretary-^ 
F.  W.  Camegy.  Assistant  Secretary —¥.  G.  Given- Wilson.  Librarian — ■ 
H.  Collinsoa.     Commitiee—F,  M.  Smith,  A.  B.  F.  Cole,  T.  D.  Sturgess. 


Toynbee  Hall. 

A  numerous  audience  has  been  following  with  close  attention 
on  Friday  evenings  the  lectures  of  Mr  VV.  F.  Moulton  on 
The  Growth  of  Government. 

Among  newly-elected  members  of  the  Association  we  notice 
the  names  of  Mr  T.  Hugh  Kirby  and  Mr.  G.  C.  M.  Smith. 

The  first  Saturday  lecture  of  the  Term  was  given  by  Dr 
E.  A.  Abbott  on  Oct.  4  on  Illusions^  the  subject  being  viewed 
specially  in  relation  to  theology.  The  lecture  was  much 
noticed  in  the  daily  press.  On  Sunday  Oct.  26  Mr  G.  C.  M. 
Smith  lectured  on  Chaucer, 

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Two  days  later  some  Members  of  our  College  Musical 
Society  kindly  gave  one  of  the  weekly  concerts,  when  their 
efforts  were  greatly  appreciated  by  an  audience  consisting 
of  tenants  from  most  of  the  buildings  in  the  neighbourhood. 

We  append  the  Programme : 

Song The  PostiUum  ...F.  W.  Carnegt 

Sqii^ , Grown  up  Children's  Games . . ! .  A.  G.  H.  Ve&kall 

Rccitodon The  Pied  Piper G.  H.  R.  Garcia 

Song F.  G.  Given  -  W  ilsoh 

Reatation The  Lifeboat J.  Sanger 

Song Hearts  of  Oak F.  W.  Carnegy 

Song He  called  me  back  again A.  G.  H.  Vekrall 

Song Come  along J.  Sanger 

Song Death  of  Nelson F.  G.  GrvKN-WiiSON 

Song... The  Three  Anglers F.  W.  Carnegy 

Recitation.  • . .   Haw  BiU  Adams  won  the  battle  of  Waterloo  ...  .J.  Sanger 

At*  a  meeting  of  Members  of  the  College  held  in  Dr  D. 
MacAlister's  rooms  on  Sunday  Nov.  8  Mr  R.  A.  Woods  of 
Amherst  College,  U.S.A.,  who  had  lately  spent  five  months 
at  Toynbee  Hall  as  a  visitor  and  fellow-worker,  gave  an 
interesting  account  of  the  place  and  the  work  there  carried  on. 

The  Reading  Room. 

There  is  but  little  of  general  interest  to  record  this  Term. 
We  have  to  acknowledge  with  many  thanks  the  following  gifts  : 
Jn  Darkest  England  and  the  Way  Out  by  Gen.  Booth ;  The 
Official  Year-hook  of  the  Church  of  England  for  1890  from  Rev 
A.  Caldecott;  3  more  vols,  of  the  Modem  Cyclopaediay  and 
Sagittulae^  a  collection  of  poems  by  Rev  E,  W.  Bowling, 
from  Dr  D.  MacAlister;  Echoes  from  the  Oxford  Magazine^ 
and  numerous  school  magazines,  placed  in  the  room  by  the 
Editors  of  the  Eagle, 

Two  tables  and  two  easy-chairs  are  gifts  from  R.  H.  Forster. 
For  the  loan  of  the  pen  and  ink  drawing  of  the  new  Organ 
Screen,  exhibited  in  this  year's  Academy,  we  are  indebted 
to  the  Editors  of  the  Eagle, 

An  auction  of  the  papers  and  periodicals  was  held  in  the 
middle  of  the  Term,  at  which  Mr  Marr  kindly  undertook  the 
duties  of  auctioneer.  The  attendance,  nevertheless,  was 
was  extremely  small,  and  the  bidding  by  no  means  spirited,  the 
prices  realised  being  proportionally  disappointing. 

The  Committee  for  the  Term  were:  Mr  Harker,  Chairman; 
C,  Dt  Edwards,  W.  A.  Long,  and  W.  C.  Laming,  Hon.  Sec. 

The  College  Mission. 

The  work  at  the  Mission  is  progressing  steadily  on  the 
removal  to  the  new  church,  while  there  is  a  slow  but  continuous 
increase  in  the  numbers  of  those  attending  the  Sunday  and 
Weekday  Services. 


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It  is  a  matter  for  much  regret  that  the  Mission  is  just  about 
to  lose  the  services  of  Mr  Marr,  who  is  shortly  to  be  ordained. 
Mr  Marr  has  for  many  years  devoted  his  Sundays  and  much  of 
bis  leisure  time  in  the  week  to  the  Mission,  where,  particularly 
in  the  Sunday  School  and  at  the  organ,  he  will  be  much 
missed. 

The  Terminal  Meeting  was  held  on  Wednesday,  October 
29,  in  Lecture  Room  VI,  the  Master  presiding.  There 
was  a  large  attendance,  the  room  being  quite  full.  The  Rev 
J.  G.  Curry  (late  Charterhouse  Missioner),  who  was  briefly 
introduced  by  the  Master,  made  a  remarkably  interesting  and 
amusing  speech,  in  which  he  enlarged  on  the  archaeological 
and  social  interest  of  South  London.  He  referred  to  the 
various  places,  of  which  South  London  is  full,  which  have  been 
described  by  eminent  novelists,  more  particularly  by  Dickens  ; 
he  further  stated  that  the  society  to  be  found  among  the  lower 
stratum  is  one  of  the  very  best.  He  then  went  on  to  describe 
some  of  the  difficulties  that  the  missioners  meet  with  in  their 
endeavours  to  raise  the  people  out  of  the  moral  stagnation  into 
which  they  have  sunk.  He  urged  upon  his  hearers  the 
advantages  of  paying  personal  visits  to  these  districts,  and 
seeing  for  themselves  how  much  was  being  done  and  how 
much  yet  remained  to  be  done. 

Mr  Phillips  then  followed ;  he  said  that  though  the  character 
of  his  work  differed  from  that  in  the  Charterhouse  district, 
which  is  chiefly  composed  of  lodging  houses,  yet  it  was  the 
same  humanity  with  which  they  had  to  deal.  He  then  briefly 
referred  to  the  progress  that  has  been  made  during  the  last 
year :  the  newer  part  of  the  district,  especially  Henshaw  Street, 
had  been  thoroughly  stirred  up,  and  at  that  time  they  were 
meeting  with  much  opposition ;  the  same  thing  had  happened 
in  other  parts  and  had  been  the  prelude  to  successful  work. 

Mr  Benoy  then  gave  a  short  account  of  his  experiences  since 
he  began  work  in  Walworth.  One  thing  had  struck  him 
especially :  every  one  working  then  was  "  Phillips " ;  he  was 
often  called  "Phillips,"  and  so  were  other  men  staying  there; 
visitors  calling  at  houses  were  not  unfrequently  asked  whether 
they  were  "someone  from  Phillips's."  In  society  it  might 
be  said  that  this  was  not  paying  due  respect  to  the  Senior 
Missioner,  but  it  was  a  very  strong  proof  of  his  energy  and 
perseverance.  Mr  Benoy  had  been  especially  connected  with 
the  children,  and  had  been  greatly  surprised  at  the  order  and 
good  behaviour  both  in  Church  and  School  prevailing  in  such 
a  district. 

Mr  Watson  then  rose  to  propose  a  resolution  expressing 
the  regret  of  all  connected  with  the  Mission  at  the  coming 
departure  of  Mr  Marr,  and  thanking  him  most  heartily  for  all 
the  time  and  labour  he  had  so  willingly  bestowed  upon  the 
College  Mission,  although  not  a  member  of  the  College;  the  post 
he  was  vacating  was  one  which  it  would  be  very  difficult  to 


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fill  adequately.  This  was  seconded  by  B.  Long  and  carried 
unanimously.     The  meeting  then  broke  up. 

It  is  with  much  gratitude  that  we  announce  that  the  retiring 
Bishop  of  Rochester  has  given  the  sum  q{  £\zo  annually  for 
three  years  ;  the  portion  of  it  which  will  be  available  will  be 
applied  to  providing  a  lady  who  will  work  in  the  Parish 
regularly  and  continually,  the  missioner  having  decided  that 
this  would  be  the  most  useful  additional  help  at  present.  We 
have  further  to  announce  a  welcome  grant  of  £zo  from  the 
Fishmongers'  Company  for  the  new  vicarage,  the  building  of 
which  is  already  well  advanced. 

A  meeting  of  those  interested  in  Cambridge  Missions  was 
held  early  in  the  term  in  Pembroke  College  Hall,  at  which  the 
Bishop  of  Rochester  gave  a  farewell  address. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Mission 
a  motion  was  carried  with  reference  to  Bishop  Thorold's 
translation,  which,  as  it  appeals  to  all  interested  in  the  mission, 
may  well  be  recorded  here : — *'  That  the  Committee  desire  to 
put  on  record  their  grateful  sense  of  the  interest  which  the 
Bishop  of  Rochester  has  taken  in  the  College  Mission  from  the 
commencement,  and  the  generosity  with  which  he  has  con- 
tributed to  its  funds  in  the  past,  and  for  the  next  three  years. 
They  regret  that  his  official  connexion  with  the  Mission  has 
ceased,  and  hope  that  he  may  have  strength  for  many  years 
of  usefulness  in  his  new  sphere  of  labour." 

The  Provident  Dispensary  has  secured  the  services  of  an 
efficient  Medical  Officer,  and  promises  to  become  a  permanent 
and  valuable  factor  in  the  work  of  the  Mission. 

All  the  Senior  Members  of  Committee  have  been  re-elected- 
The  Junior  Members  are  J.  A.  Cameron,  B.  Long,  F.  M.  Smith, 
C.  D.  Edwards,  F.  W.  Carnegy,  A.  B.  F.  Cole,  and  C.  E.  Fynes- 
Clinton.  The  officers  are:  Treasurer^  Mr  Watson,  Secreiatryy 
Mr  Caldecott,  Junior  Treasurer,  C.  O.  Raven,  junior  Secreiary, 
F.  M.  Smith. 


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Donations   and  Additions  to    the    Library   during 
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Johnson,  Rev.  E.  J.  F. 

(E.  1890) 
Tones,  H.  R.,  m.d. 
Kennedy,  Rev.  W.  J. 
Kerly,  D.  M.,  LL.B. 
Lamplugh,  Rev.  D. 
Langham,  Rev.  E.  N, 
Larmor,  J.,  D.SC.  (E. 

1892) 
tLee,  W.  J. 
Lewis,  Rev.  S.  S.,  f.8.a. 

(E.  1894) 
Ley,  Rev.  A.  B.  M. 
LiVEiNO,  Prof.  G.  D.> 

F.K.8.  (E.  1895) 

Lloyd,  Ven.  Arch.  T.  B. 
Lloyd,  J.  H.  (E.  1891) 
Lloyd,  U.  (E.  1893) 
Love,  A.  E.  H. 
Lunn,  Rev.  J.  R. 
*MacAlistery  D.,  m.d.,. 

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Macalister,  Prof.  A.,m.d., 

F.&.8. 

Main,  P.  T. 
Manning,  A.  S. 
Marr,  J.  E.,  f.o.b. 
Marshall,  Prof.  A.  (E. 

1894) 
Marshall,  Rev.  F.  C. 
Marten,  A.  G.,  ll.d.,q.c. 
Mathews,  G.  B.  ( E.  '92} 
Matthew,  G.  A.,  ll.b. 
fMAYOR,  Rev.  J.  B.  (E. 

1893) 
Mayor,  Rev.  Piof.  J.E.B. 
Merriman,  Rev.  J.,  d.d. 
Middlemast,  E.  W. 
Morris,  A.  L. 
Morshead,  R. 
tMoser,  E.  B. 
tMoss,  Rev.  H.  \V. 
Moss,  W.  (E.  1895) 
Moss,  J.  C. 

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fMuUinger,  J.  B. 
fMuLUNS,  W.E.  (E/93) 
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Newton,  Rev.  H.  (E. 

1891) 
Newton,  T.  H.  G. 
Pagan,  Rev.  A. 
Page,  T.  E. 
Palmer,  Rev.  T.  L. 
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Parkinson,  late  Rev.  S. 

D.D.,     F.K.A.S.,    7.S.d. 

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fRAM,  Rev.  S.  A.  S. 

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fRoseveare,  W.  N. 
RowE,  Rev.T.B.(E.'94) 
Rudd,  Rev.  E.  J.  S. 
Rushbrooke,  W.  G. 
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Scott,  R.  F.  (E.  1896) 
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tTANNER,J.R.(E.'93) 

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Bruton,  F.  A. 
Buchanan,  G.  B. 
Bumsted,  H.  J. 
Burstall,  H.  F.  W. 
Cassell,  J.  R. 
Chad  WICK,  Rev.  A.  (E. 

1894) 
Chambers,  E.  A. 
Chaplin,  T.  H.  A.,  m.b., 

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Chaplin,  W.H.(E.  '91) 
Chapman,  Rev.  A.  G. 
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Clarke,  W.  J, 
Clay,  S. 

Cleave,  Rev.  P.  R. 
Collier,  W. 

COLMAN,  J.  (E.  1 891) 

Colson,  J. 
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W.  (E.  1894) 
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fWace,  F.  C,  ll.m. 
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Warren,  Rev.  W.  (E. 

1891) 
Watson,  Rev.  Fred.,  b.d. 
Watson,  Frank 
Webb,  R.  R. 
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Whitworth,  Rev.  W. 

A.  (E.  1894} 
Widdowson,  T. 
fWiLKiNS,  Prof.  A.  S., 

LITT.D.  (E.  189I) 

Wilkinson,  G.  G. 
Williams,  A. 
Wilson,  W.S.(E. '93) 
WiNSTONE,   E.   H.   (E. 

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Darbishire,  H.  D. 
Davys,  G.  P. 
De  Wend,  W.  F.,  IX-B. 
Douglas,  A.  F.,  ll.b. 

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Drysdale,J.H.,M.B.,  b.c. 
Du  Heaume,  J.  Le  G. 
Edmunds,  L.  H.' 
England,  J.  M. 
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Francis,  H.  A.,  m.b.,  b.c. 
Gaddum,  F.  D. 
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Kirby,  T.  H. 
Lake,  P. 

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Lomax,  J.  F. 
Mackinnon,  F.  A. 
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Brown,  W.  L. 
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May,  R.  G. 
Mendis,  J.  G.  C. 
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Milner,  W.  L. 
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Moore,  P.  L. 
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Mundahl,  H.  S.,  ll.b. 
Neal,  Rev.  T. 
Newbery,  H.  C. 
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Nicholson,  J.  P. 
Nicklin,  T. 
Noaks,  B. 
Norman,  L. 
Nunn,  H. 
OrgiU,  W.  L. 
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Phillips,  Rev.  C.  T. 
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Portbury,  H.  A. 
Powning,  Rev.  J.  F. 
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Catling,  H.  D. 
Cattell,  Dr.  J.  Mc  K. 

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Clark,  W. 
Clegg,  A. 
Cleworth,  J. 
Cole,  A.  B.  F. 
Cole,  J.  W. 
CoUison,  H. 
Cordeaux,  H.  E.  S. 
Corder,  B.  J. 
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Craxton,  S.  C. 
Cubitt,  S.  H. 


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Slack,  F.  A. 
Sraallpeice,  G. 
Smith,  E.  W. 
Smith,  H. 
Smith,  T. 
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Spenser,  H.  J. 
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tWiUson,  St.  J.  B.  W. 
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Winter,  J.  H. 

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The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth       •           -           -           -  4^5 

Johnian  Worthies  at  the  Gaelph  Exhibition     ....  444 

Th4  History  of  th€  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club             •           •            -  447 

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The  Rev  John  Howard  Marsden  B.D.      .           -           •           -  4/8 

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THE    COLLEGE    DAYS    OF   WILLIAM 
WORDSWORTH. 

"Die  Statte  die  ein  guter  Mensch  betrat 
1st  eingeweiht :  nach  hundert  Jahren  klingt 
Sein  Wort  und  seine  That  dem  Enkel  wieder." 

GoetJu. 

{F  every  abode  of  a  great  soul  remains  hallowed 
to  those  who  come  after,  how  full  of  consecration 
is  a  College  such  as  ours,  the  fostering-place  of 
Burleigh  and  Ben  Jonson,  of  Falkland  and  Strafford,  of 
Wilberforce  and  Henry  Martyn !  And  yet  among  all 
the  memories  which  hover  about  our  staircases,  none  is 
more  holy  than  that  of  the  young  Northcountryman 
who  took  his  degree  and  left  us  in  this  Lent  Terra  a 
hundred  years  ago.  He  had  competed  for  no  University 
honours — he  had  received  none,  his  friends  were  already 
disappointed  in  him  and  feared  he  would  never  come 
to  good.  Yet  even  at  that  moment  he  had  an  unspoken 
message  for  mankind,  so  deep,  so  true,  so  full  of  pure 
joy  that  the  utterance  of  it  gave  a  new  meaning  to 
the  world!  To  us  who  know  what  lay  within  him, 
Wordsworth  as  he  was  on  leaving  College  is  a  far 
more  interesting  character  than  he  could  have  been 
to  his  contemporaries.  And  now  that  this  centenary 
has  come,  we  may  well  find  a  pleasure  in  reviewing 
those  years  of  half-conscious  preparation  in  which  he 
wore  our  gown*  and  trod  our  courts. 

*  Johnians  at  that  time  (except  scholars  on  certain  foundations)  wore 
in  common  with  the  undergraduates  of  seTen  other  colleges  a  sleeveless 
gown  called  a  curtain.  Our  present  distinctive  gowns  date  from  1835. 
Chr.  Wordsworth,  Social  Life  (1874),  pp.  524,  693. 

VOL.   XVI.  KKK 


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426        The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsmorih. 

For  such  an  attempt  we  get  abundant  aid  from 
the  Preltide^  that  *  song  divine  of  high  and  passionate 
thoughts,  to  their  own  music  chanted/  in  which 
Wordsworth  analyses  the  history  of  his  own  mind 
with  that  absolute  sincerity  which  is  so  rare  in  others 
and  in  him  so  inevitable.  If  we  add  to  the  spiritual 
revelations  of  the  Prelude  a  few  records  of  a  more 
everyday  kind  from  other  sources,  we  shall  have  a 
tolerably  complete  picture  of  our  poet's  undergraduate 
life. 

In  order,  however,  to  understand  what  Wordsworth 
was  when  he  entered  St  John's,  it  is  necessary  to 
touch  very  lightly  on  his  earlier  years.  He  was  bom  at 
Cockermouth  in  Cumberland  on  April  7th  1770,  the 
second  son  of  an  attomey-at-law.  Of  his  three  brothers 
we  need  only  mention  here  that  the  youngest, 
Christopher,  afterwards  became  Master  of  Trinity. 
Dorothy  Wordsworth,  his  only  sister,  plays  a  much 
larger  part  in  the  life  of  the  future  poet.  .  Richly 
endowed  with  ardour  and  imagination,  from  childish 
days  onwards  she  was  the  beloved  companion  of  her 
brother,  and  it  was  from  her  that  the  rather  intractable 
boy  first  caught  that  spirit  of  gentleness,  which  at 
last  transformed  him  to  itself. 

''  Oh  I  pleasant,  pleasant  were  the  days. 
The  time,  when  in  our  childish  plays 
My  sister  Emmeline  and  I 
Together  chased  the  Butterfly ! 
A  very  hunter  did  I  rush 
Upon  the  prey:  with  leaps  and  springs 
I  followed  on  from  brake  to  bush ; 
But  she,  God  love  her!  feared  to  brush 
The'  dust  from  off  its  wings." 

Wordsworth's  parents  both  died  during  his  boyhood, 
his  mother  in  1778,  his  father  five  years  later.  On 
his  mother's  death  he  was  sent  at  the  age  of  eight 
to  school  at  Hawkshead,  a  village  lying  between 
Conislon  and  Windermere — close  to  Esthwaite  Water. 


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The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth.       427 

The  school,  which  had  been  founded  two  centuries 
before  by  Edwin  Sandys,  Archbishop  of  York,  was  in 
Wordsworth's  time  one  of  the  most  frequented  in  the 
Northern  counties.  It  had  one  feature  which  to  us 
seems  strange  enough :  the  boys  were  generally  boarded 
out  in  the  cottages  of  the  villagers.  But  in  Wordsworth's 
case  this  custom  bore  rich  fruit:  for  it  was  in  his 
cottage  home  at  Ilawkshead  that  he  learnt  to  love 
the  simple  folk  around  him,  the  race  of  self-reliant  pious 

*  statesmen '  whose  memory  lives  in  Michael  as  indeed 
in  all  the  poet's  works. 

It  may  be  imagined  that  in  such  circumstances  the 
school-years  were  a  time  of  great  freedom.  When 
lessons  were  over,  magisterial  supervision  ceased :  and 
everyone  was  ft^e  to  climb,  fish,  skate — as  the  season 
allowed-— or  to  beguile  the  indoor  hours  with  such 
reading  as  fell  in  his  way.  Wordsworth,  rudely  but 
vigorously  formed,  entered  with  eagerness  into  every 
sport  and  every  adventure:  and  with  a  strong  under- 
standing still  unsatisfied,  turned  with  equal  eagerness  to 
the  world  of  books.  "  I  >read,"  he  says,  "  all  Fielding's 
works,  Don  Quixotey  Gil  BlaSy  and  any  part  of  Swift 
that  I  li'k.eA,— Gulliver's  Travels  and  the  Tale  of  a  Tub 
being  both  much  to  my  taste."  The  hours  spent  in 
school,  though  we  hear  little  of  them,  seem  in  his  case 
not  to  have  been  wasted,  and  to  one  of  his  school* 
masters,  the  Rev  William  Taylor  M.A.,  he  was 
warmly  attached.  He  recalls  in  after  days  how  he 
had  been  summoned  by  his  master  to  take  farewell 
of  him  upon  his  death-bed : 

"I  kissed  his  cheek  before  he  died/' 
and  the  poem  of  Matthew  enshrines  the  sa'me  affection. 

Still  one  must  conclude  that  it  was  not  amid  the 

•  murmurs  of  the  village  school '  that  William  Words- 
worth received  the  most  precious  influences  of  his 
boyhood,  but  rather  in  his  idler  hours  among  the 
solemn  hills  and  shining  lakes.  In  such  surround- 
ingSy  whatever  was  the   excitement  of  the  moment, 


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rock-climbing — the  snaring  of  woodcock — skating — ^it 
mattered  not — now  and  again  in  some  sudden  pause 
the  very  spirit  of  the  scene  around  was  borne  in  upon 
his  soul,  its  weird  terror,  its  glorious  beauty,  its  ineffable 
calm. 

"Oh  at  that  time 
While  on  the  perilous  ridge  I  hung  alone 
With  what  strange  utterance  did  the  loud  dry  wind 
Blow  through  my  ears!  the  sky  seemed  not  a  sky 
Of  earth — and  with  what  motion  moved  the  clouds !  " 
«  «  «  « 

"Thus  oft  amid  those  scenes  of  vulgar  joy 
Which  through  all  seasons  on  a  child's  pursuits 
Are  prompt  attendants,  mid  that  giddy  bliss 
Which  like  a  tempest  works  along  the  blood 
And  is  forgotten  ;^-even  then  I  felt 
Gleams  like  the  flashing  of  a  shield,  the  earth 
And  common  face  of  Nature  spake  to  me 
Rememberable  things." 

It  is  just  those  moments  of  initiation  which  fixed 
the  destiny  of  the  Hawkshead  schoolboy.  The  strong, 
untameable,  half-instructed  lad  had  already  heard  the 
still  small  voice  of  Nature  whispering  to  his  heart, 
already  with  a  strange  awe  he  had  seen  the  beauty 
of  the  world.  Happily  for  him  and  for  us  he  was 
*  not  disobedient  unto  the  heavenly  vision' :  for  his 
eyes  it  never  faded  into  the  Might  of  common  day/ 
Rather,  let  us  hold,  it  stayed  with  him  as  a  seal  of 
consecration  until  the  boy  who  had  been  of  *a  stiff, 
moody,  and  violent  temper'  grew  into  the  divinely 
softened  man  who  could  say  in  all  simplicity — 

"To  me  the  meanest  flower  that  blows  can  give 
Thoughts  that  do  often  lie  too  deep  for  tears." 

We  can  now  imagine  the  youth,  ordinary  enough 
to  the  common  gaze,  but  already  beckoned  to  by  powers 
invisible,  who  in  October  1787  left  his  native  region  in 
the  north  to  be  enrolled  as  a  member  of  our  College 


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The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth.       42^ 

And  University.  He  had  visited  York  on  his  way  hither, 
and  the  last  stage  of  the  long  coach-journey  brought 
him  into  Cambridge  by  the  Huntingdon  Road. 
Already,  we  can  see,  he  had  conjured  up  visions  of  the 
academic  life.  The  first  cap  and  gown  which  came 
in  sight  held  him  fascinated.  Then  as  the  travellers 
came  nearer  to  the  bourne 

''It  seemed  to  suck  us  in  with  an  eddy's  force. 
Onward  we  drove  beneath  the  Castle,  caught 
While  passing  Magdalene  Bridge  a  glimpse  of  Cam 
And  at  the  Hoop  alighted,  famous  Inn." 

The  rooms  which  were  assigned  him  at  St  John's 
and  which  remained  his,  it  would  seem,  during  his 
whole  residence  are  described  in  the  Preltide  in  lines 
familiar  to  all  Johnians. 

"The  Evangelist  St  John  my  patron  was: 
Three  Gothic  courts  are  his,  and  in  the  first 
Was  my  abiding  place,  a  nook  obscure; 
Right  underneath,  the  College  kitchens  made 
A  humming  sound,  less  tuneable  than  bees. 
But  hardly  less  industrious;  with  shrill  notes 
Of  sharp  command  and  scolding  intermixed. 
Near  me  hung  Trinity's  loquacious  clock, 
Who  never  let  the  quarters,  night  or  day. 
Slip  by  him  unproclaimed,  and  told  the  hours 
Twice  over  with  a  male  and  female  voice. 
Her  pealing  organ  was  my  neighbour  too; 
And  from  my  pillow,  looking  forth  by  light 
Of  moon  or  favouring  stars,  I  could  behold 
The  antechapel  where  the  statue  stood 
Of  Newton  with  his  prism  and  silent  face, 
.  The  marble  index  of  a  mind  for  ever 
Voyaging  through  strange  seas  of  Thought  alone." 

This  passage  gives  us  almost  all  we  need  for 
determining  which  particular  set  of  rooms  was  Words- 
worth's. It  was  approached  from  the  First  Court,  it 
was  '  right '  over  the  kitchen,  it  had  an  outlook  towards 


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430       The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth. 

Trinity.  Only  one  set  of  rooms  fulfils  these  conditions, 
F2  of  the  First  Court.*  The  rooms  higher  up,  F4, 
have  often  been  supposed  to  have  been  Wordsworth's, 
as  they  might  give  a  better  opportunity  of  seeing  into 
the  Trinity  Antechapel.  But  these  rooms,  are  not  in 
any  sense  over  the  kitchen,  but  form  part  of  the  southern 
side  of  the  court.  Nor  is  there  any  necessity  to  imagine 
that  Wordsworth  saw  from  his  rooms  the  statue  of 
Newton.  He  does  not  say  so  in  the  above  passage, 
and  it  is  quite  clear  from  one  of  Miss  Fenwick's  letters 
that  it  was  not  the  case.  I  quote  her  account  of 
Wordsworth's  rooms,  as  it  is  decisive  on  all  points, 
only  premising  that  in  F2  the  sitting  room  looks  on 
to  Trinity  Lane,  and  the  bedroom  is  on  the  opposite 
^ide  of  the  room,  being  unlighted  except  from  the 
sitting-room,  from  which  it  is  cut  off  by  a  partition 
wall.  Miss  Fenwick  who  accompanied  Wordsworth 
when  he  revisited  his  college  rooms  in  1839  writes  as 
follows :  "  one  of  the  meanest  and  most  dismal  apart- 
ments it  must  be  in  the  whole  University ;  *  but  here ' 
(he  said  in  showing  it)  *I  was  as  joyous  as  a  lark.* 
There  was  a  dark  closet  taken  off  it.  for  his  bed.  The 
present  occupant  had  pushed  his  bed  into  the  darkest 
corner,  but  he  showed  us  how  he  drew  his  bed  to  the 
door,  that  he  might  see  the  top  of  the  window  in  Trinity 
College  Chapel,  under  which  stands  that  glorious  statue 
of  Sir  Isaac  Newton." — Correspondence  of  Henry  Taylor 
(1888),  p.  123. 

The  first  result  for  Wordsworth  of  *  coming  up  to 
Cambridge'  was  a  state  of  breathless  bewilderment, 
and  we  need  not  wonder  at  it.  In  one  moment  to 
pass  from  the  simplicity  of  a  remote  village  to  a 
world  of  youthful  noise,  gaiety  and  fashion,  to  leave 


*  These  rooms  for  some  years  past  have  been  used  as  storerooms  in 
connexion  with  the  kitchen,  and  have  been  approached  by  an  iron  staircase 
from  Trinity  Lane,  the  '  oak '  being  permanently  closed.  Let  us  hope  that 
someday  they  may  be  rescued  from  such  ignoble  service. 


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The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth.       431 

the    lonely  mountains   and    lakes    and  move    among 
buildings  glorious    alike   for    their  beauty  and  their 
historical  associations,  at  the  same  time  to  cease  to 
be  a  boy  and  to  become  a  man  with  a  man's  power  of 
the  purse  and  a  man's  power  to  choose  his  course : 
all  this  at  once  was  at  least  bewildering.     But  we 
must  let  Wordsworth  speak  for  himself: 
"I  was  the  Dreamer,  they  the  Dream;  I  roamed 
Delighted  through  the  motley  spectacle; 
Gowns  grave,  or  gaudy,  doctors,  students,  streets, 
Courts,  cloisters,  flocks  of  churches,  gateways,  towers: 
Migration  strange  for  a  stripling  of  the  hills, 

A  northern  villager As  if  the  change 

Had  waited  on  some  Fairy's  wand,  at  once 
Behold  me  rich  in  monies,  and  attired 
In  splendid  garb,  with  hose  of  silk,  and  hair 
Powdered  like  rimy  trees,  when  frost  is  keen.  .  • .  • 

The  weeks  went  roundly  on. 
With  invitations,  suppers,  wine  and  fruit, 
Smooth  housekeeping  within,  and  all  without 
Liberal,  and  suiting  gentleman's  array." 

When  the  first  excitement  was  over,  our  freshman 
had  time  to  take  more  careful  note  of  his  surroundings. 
It  is  hard  for  us  at  this  distance  of  time  to  picture 
them.  Those  who  would  do  so  must  turn  to  Mr  Chr. 
Wordsworth's  books  or  to  Gunning's  Reminiscences. 
For  our  purpose  a  few  words  must  suffice.  The 
whole  number  of  undergraduates  in  the  Univer- 
sity was  probably  under  seven  hundred* — if  we  put 
the  Johnians  at  a  hundred  and  twenty  we  shall  not 
be  below  the  mark.  The  latter  wpuld  of  course  all 
be  lodged  in  our  first  three  Courts,  including  some 
buildings  now  destroyed.  As  for  academical  authorities, 
the  Vice-Chancellors  during  Wordsworth's  under- 
graduate   time    seem   to    have    been    Dr    Farmer    of 

•  %t^^2Si"^History  of  Mathematics  {^1%%%)^,  137. 

In  1802  the  whole  number  of  Undergraduates  on  the  University  books 
was  632.  Of  these  117  were  Johnians.  Chr.  Wordsworth,  Social  Life, 
p.  640. 


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432        The  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth, 

Emmanuel  and  Dr  Barnes  of  Peterhouse,  both  of 
them  well  known  figures  to  all  readers  of  Gunning. 
The  Master  of  St  John's  was  in  1787  the  blind  Dr 
Chevallier.  He  died  during  Wordsworth's  course.  At 
his  funeral  the  old  custom  was  observed  of  pinning 
to  the  pall  eulogies  in  Latin,  Greek  and  English  by 
members  of  the  College.  It  is  known  that  Words- 
worth declined  to  provide  one  of  these  conventional 
tributes  on  the  ground  that  he  had  had  no  personal 
knowledge  of  the  Master. 

.  It  would  seem  that  the  University  at  this  time 
was  sadly  wanting  in  intellectual  activity  and  in 
moral  vigour.  Fellows  of  Colleges  were  too  often 
ignorant,  boorish  and  dissipated :  and  the  we2ilthier 
undergraduates  were  allowed  to  waste  their  time  and 
money  unrestrained.  In  such  an  atmosphere  the  pursuit 
of  knowledge  itself  tended  to  degradation,  being  left 
to  poor  men  who  saw  in  it  the  pathway  to  a  Fellowship 
and  the  same  idle  life  which  was  led  by  their  seniors. 
If  this  was  the  Cambridge  which  the  young 
Wordsworth  saw,  we  need  not  be  surprised  that 
his  first  delight  should  have  soon  given  way  to  a 
feeling  of  revulsion.  As  he  noticed  the  petty 
emulations  which  rankled  among  the  more  studious 
of  his  companions,  as  he  contrasted  the  dons,  *men 
unsecured,  grotesque,'  with  the  worthy  villagers  whom 
he  had  left,  in  the  consciousness  of  his  own  higher 
ideals  he  conceived  a  deep  disgust  to  the  whole 
routine  of  the  University: 

"I  was  not  for  that  hour, 
Nor  for  that  place." 

It  was  no  doubt  partly  thrpugh  this  estrange- 
ment that  Wordsworth  never  applied  himself  to  the 
strict  course  of  mathematical  reading  which  was 
then  the  only  road  to  University  honours.  Another 
cause  for  his  early  idleness — ^given  us  by  himself — 
is  to  us  somewhat  amusing — ^he  had  come  here  too 


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well  prepared!  "When  at  school,  I,  with  the  other 
boys  of  the  same  standing,  was  put  upon  reading 
the  first  six  books  of  Euclid  with  the  exception  of 
the  fifth;  and  also  in  Algebra  I  learnt  simple  and 
quadratic  equations:  and  this  was  for  me  unlucky, 
because  I  had  a  full  twelvemonth's  start  of  the 
'freshmen  of  my  year,*  and  accordingly  got  into 
rather  an  idle  way ;  reading  nothing  but  classic 
authors  according  to  my  fancy  and  Italian  poetry." 
To  this  we  may  add  that  his  schooldays,  whatever  they 
had  given  him,  had  not  formed  those  habits  of  submission 
to  discipline  and  of  application  to  an  uncongenial  task 
which  must  always  be  part  of  the  successful  student. 
His  father's  death  while  Wordsworth  was  still  at  school 
had  strengthened  the  self-reliant  independent  turn  of 
his  character — ^but  without  this,  the  open-air  life  of 
the  Hawkshead  schoolboy  was  an  unlikely  preparation 
for  an  after-career  of  assiduous  reading : 

"For  I,  bred  up  'mid  Nature's  luxuries, 

Was  a  spoiled  child,  and,  rambling  like  the  wind, 

As  I  had  done  in  daily  intercourse 

With  those  ciystalline  rivers,  solemn  heights. 

And  mountains  ranging  like  a  fowl  of  the  air, 

I  was  ill-tutored  for  captivity.'* 

And  perhaps  there  was  a  still  deeper  reason  for 
Wordsworth's  aversion  from  hard  reading.  All  through 
his  life  it  was  from  the  world  without  him — seen  by 
the  eye  and  fed  upon  in  meditation — that  he  derived 
the  most  precious  part  of  his  knowledge.  What  he 
in  turn  gave  forth  was  no  theory  built  up  upon  books,  but 

"  The  harvest  of  a  quiet  eye 

That  broods  and  sleeps  on  his  own  heart.*' 

And  at  this  moment  of  introduction  to  a  strange 
and  wonderful  world  may  not.  some  secret  voice  have 

•  When  Gunning  entered  Christ's  in  1785  he  was  Mgnorant  of  the  first 
Proposition  in  Euclid/  yet  he  came  out  among  the  first  five  of  his  year. 
Reminiscences y  I.  6,  89. 

VOL.  XVI.  L  L  L 


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pleaded  within  him  that  the  pressing  need  for  him 
was  not  to  do  as  did  others  but  to  absorb  in  thought 
the  new  elements  of  natural  beauty  and  human  passion 
by  which  he  found  himself  encompassed  ? 

However  it  was  brought  about,  Wordsworth  passed 
through  his  course  *  being  to  himself  a  guide,'  and 
submitting  as  little  as  possible  to  academical  require- 
ments. Such  a  man  had  an  easier  time  of  it  a 
hundred  years  ago  than  he  has  now.  There  was  no 
hurdle  race  of  Little-Go,  General  and  Special  taken 
in  Parts;  nothing  was  required  by  the  University 
but  to  *  satisfy*  the  examiners  in  the  Tripos  among 
the  TToXXot'— a  very  difiFerent  thing  from  obtaining 
honours.  For  this  purpose  "two  books  of  Euclid's 
Geometry^  Simple  and  Quadratic  Equations  and  the 
early  parts  of  Paley's  Moral  Philosophy  were  deemed 
amply  sufficient."*  It  is  true  that  St  John's  at  this 
time  was  honorably  distinguished  among  other  colleges 
by  requiring  all  students — Fellow-commoners  included 
— ^to  submit  to  an  annual  college  examination :  but 
we  cannot  suppose  that  the  college  standard  for  the 
less  studious  men  differed  much  from  that  of  the 
University.t  It  is  clear  therefore  that  with  the 
knowledge  Wordsworth  brought  with  him  from  school, 
by  abstaining  from  reading  for  honours,  he  was  free 
to  spend  his  time  almost  as  he   liked. 


•  G.  Pryme's  Recollections^  p.  92. 

t  Mr  Clir.  Wordsworth  quotes  the  subjects  of  the  College  examination 
in  June  1775. 

{Plain  and  Physical  Astronomy. 
Butler's  Analogy. 
The  two  first  books  of  Lucretius. 

{Mechanics. 
The  first  book  of  Locke. 
The  Phoenissae  of  Euripides. 

{Algebra. 
Logic. 
Mounteney's  Demosthenes. 

For  all  the  Years  :        St  Luke's  Gospel. 

Chr.  Wordsworth,  Scholae  Accidemicae^  p.  356. 


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Dangers  there  were  no  doubt  in  the  path  he  followed. 
The  high  visions  of  the  born  poet  might  fade  away 
amid  the  absorbing  trivialities  of  common  men,  the 
resolute  singleness  of  the  boy  might  be  replaced  by 

"a  treasonable  growth 
Of  indecisive  judgments  that  impaired 
And  shook  the  mind's  simplicity." 

There  might  be  spiritual  ruin  of  a  deeper  kind.  But 
from  such  possibilities,  especially  of  the  worser  sort, 
Wordsworth  was  saved  by  a  nature  which  was  as  rootedly 
simple  and  pure  as  it  was  vehement.  One  still  smiles 
at  his  crowning  confession  of  the  *  one  glass  too  much  * 
in  Milton's  rooms  in  Christ's.* 

As  for  the  intellectual  side  of  the  man^ 

"Imagination  slept. 
But  yet  not  utterly." 

Amid  all  the  careless  happiness  of  the  new  life 
there  was  jstill  in  the  freshman  Wordsworth  the 
all-receptive  faculty  of  the  Hawkshead  schoolboy. 
It  was  no  ordinary  youth  who  gazed  from  his  bed 
on  the  moonlit  window  and  pictured  Newton  beneath  it 

"with  his  prism  and  silent  face," 

who  dreamed  with  Chaucer  by  Trumpington  mill,  who 
saw  Spenser  at  Pembroke  and  Milton  an  angel-boy 
at  Christ's.     It  was  no  ordinary  youth  who  could  say 

"  Whatever  of  Terror  or  of  Love 
Or  Beauty,  Nature's  daily  face  put  on 
From  transitory  passion,  unto  this 
I  was  as  sensitive  as  waters  are 
To  the  sky's  influence  in  a  kindred  mood 
Of  passion ;  was  obedient  as  a  lute 
That  waits  upon  the  touches  of  the  wind." 

This  sensibility  to  things  without  was  sometimes 
obvious  to  Wordsworth's  companions  and  brought  on 

*  Gunning  tells  us  that  at  this  time  drunkenness  was  *  almost  universal.' 
RetninUcences^  I.  24. 


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him,  as  he  tells  us,  the  charge  of  madness.  If  madness, 
it  was  the  madness  only  of  intense  feeling,  feeling 
which  rested  on  the  most  exact  ocular  observation 
and  became  the  starting-point  of  a  searching  analysis. 
But  while  we  ever  bear  in  mind  these  hidden  depths 
of  his  mind  we  may  still  accept  what  he  tells  us  of 
the  outward  current  of  his  early  college  life,  a 
description  which  has  been  true  in  its  main  lines  of 
many  undergraduates,  before  and  since — 

''  Companionships, 
Friendships,  acqaaintances,  were  welcome  alL 
We  sauntered,  played,  or  rioted ;  we  talked 
Unprofitable  talk  at  morning  hours; 
Drifted  about  along  the  streets  and  walks, 
Read  lazily  in  trivial  books,  went  forth 
To  gallop  through  the  country  in  blind  zeal 
Of  senseless  horsemanship,  or  on  the  breast 
Of  Cam  sailed  boisterously,  and  let  the  stars 
Come  forth,  perhaps  without  one  quiet  thought." 

A  hundred  years  ago  it  was  not  customary  for 
undergraduates,  or  at  any  rate  for  the  less  wealthy 
of  them,  to  leave  Cambridge  during  the  Christmas 
and  Easter  vacations.  Wordsworth  accordingly 
remained  in  St  John's  in  all  probability  without 
interruption  from  his  coming  up  in  October  1787  till 
the  following  Long  Vacation.  He  spent  the  summer  at 
Hawkshead,  and  in  the  solemn  presence  of  the  lakes  and 
mountains  felt  an  influence  more  powerful  over  him 
than  ever  for  the  long  months  which  had  been 
passed  away  from  them. 

"  Strength  came  where  weakness  was  not  known  to  be. 
At  least  not  felt;  and  restoration  came 
Like  an  intruder  knocking  at  the  door 
Of  unacknowledged  weariness." 

He  was  still  a  young  man  with  a  young  man's 
love  of  human  society  and  a  young  man's  zest  in 
life,    and    many    were    the    rural    merry-makings    in 


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which  he  took  his  share.  These  were  vanities,  or 
so  they  seemed  later  to  his  graver  age:  but  even 
among  them  there  were  calls  and  visions.  A  village 
dance  had  lasted  till  the  early  hours  of  the  morning,  and 
as  Wordsworth  returned  home  by  sea  and  mountain 
the  sun  rose  with  rare  splendour  and  filled  his  heart 
with  a  new  sense  of  ecstasy  and  consecration. 

"  Magnificent 
The  morning  rose,  in  memorable  pomp, 
Glorious  as  e'er  I  had  beheld — in  front. 
The  sea  lay  laughing  at  a  distance ;  near, 
The  solid  mountains  shone,  bright  as  the  clouds, 
Grain-tinctured,  drenched  in  empyrean  light; 
And  in  the  meadows  and  the  lower  grounds 
Was  all  the  sweetness  of  a  common  dawn — 
Dews,  vapours,  and  the  melody  of  birds. 
And  labourers  going  forth  to  till  the  fields. 
Ah!  need  I  say,  dear  Friend  I  that  to  the  brim 
My  heart  was  full;  I  made  no  vows,  but  vows 
Were  then  made  for  me;  bond  unknown  to  me 
Was  given,  that  I  should  be,  else  sinning  greally, 
A  dedicated  Spirit." 

With  the  return  of  October  Wordsworth  was  once 
more  back  at  Cambridge,  and,  as  he  tells  us, 

**The  bonds  of  indolent  society 
Relaxing  in  their  hold,  henceforth  I  lived 
More  to  myself." 

He  gives  us  few  details  of  his  second  and  third 
years:  but,  as  we  have  already  learnt,  what  reading 
he  did  was  done  at  his  own  fancy  and  with  no 
thought  for  academical  success.  And  who  knows, 
as  he  says,  what  gain  this  course  may  not  have 
brought  him? 

"What  love  of  nature,  what  original  strength 
Of  contemplation,  what  intuitive  truths 
The  deepest  and  the  best,   what  keen  research. 
Unbiassed,  unbewildered,  and  unawed?" 


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It  was  ciertainly  at  this  time  that  he  first  felt  a 
confidence  in  his  own  powers  of  leaving  some  worthy 
poetical  memorial  behind  him.  Not  that  he  felt,  whilst 
he  was  here,  any  immediate  call  to  produce  poetry. 
The  only  poem  which  is  a  genuine  offspring  of 
Cambridge  is  the  Lines  written  while  sailing  in  a 
boat  at  eveningy  which  was  suggested  by  a  sunset 
on  the  Cam.*  But  though  Wordsworth  as  yet  wrote 
little,  he  was  quietly  adding  to  his  intellectual 
equipment.  He  still  read  the  classical  poets^-he 
took  lessons,  as  we  know,  in  Italian — ^he  filled  his 
mind  with  Shakspere,  Spenser  and>  Milton.  Even 
the  abstractions  of  Geometry  fascinated  him,  although 
his  acquaintance  with  the  science  was  extremely 
small.  And  there  was  doubtless  much  training  ia 
observation,  much  cultivation  of  the  sensibility,  much 
deepening  of  thought,  in  those  long-protracted  walks 
in  our  grounds  in  which  he  so  often 

"saw  the  light  of  evening  fade 
From  smooth  Cam's  silent  waters." 

Since  those  days  the  building  of  our  New  Court 
has  partly  changed  the  scene,  and  the  famous 
ash-tree  is  gone  which  the  fervent  solitary  loved 
above  all  else.  Yet  on  any  clear  evening  still, 
wandering  under  the  elms  by  our  river,  we  too  may 
find  that  beauty  which  Wordsworth  went  out  to  seek, 
and  find  in  it  perhaps  a  kindlier  influence  for  being 
haunted  by  his  spirit. 

We  have  now  reached  the  year  1789,  the  era  of 
generous  hopes  and  noble  achievements  which  seemed 
to  promise  for  France  the  blessings  England  had 
won  a  century  before.  The  circumstances  of  Words- 
worth's boyhood  had  implanted  in  him  a  deep  love 
of  equality  and  simplicity  of  life.  And  he  now  watched 
with  hearty  approval  the  abolition  of  one  after  another 
of  the  monstrous  abuses  of  the  old  regime. 

♦  The  Evening  Walk  was  written  during  the  Cambridge  years,  but 
it  owes  its  inspiration  to  other  scenes. 


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In  the  summer  of  this  year,  his  second  Long  Vacation, 
he  visited  Dovedale,  Yorkshire  and .  Penrith,  where 
he  enjoyed  the  society  of  his  beloved  sister  Dorothy 
and  of  his  future  wife,  Mary  Hutchinson.  With 
them  he  made  an  excursion  to  a  ruin  which  became 
the  subject  of  one  of  his  most  imaginative  poems. 
Brougham  Castle. 

Wordsworth's  last  Long  Vacation,  that  of  1790, 
was  spent  further  afield.  In  company  with  his  friend 
Robert  Jones,  afterwards  Fellow  of  St  John's  and 
Rector  of  Soulderne,  he  made  what  was  perhaps  the  first 
undergraduate  walking-tour  abroad.  His  college  friends 
represented  to  him  the  dangers  of  the  undertaking :  but 
for  Wordsworth  a  spice  of  danger  was  an  attraction. 
His  relatives  were  displeased  that  he  should  throw 
away  the  last  opportunity  of  taking  a  good  degree. 
He  faced  their  displeasure.  The  desire  to  see  the 
beauties  of  Switzerland,  the  Italian  lakes  and  the 
Rhine,  was  too  strong  to  be  put  aside.  And  in 
addition  there  was  the  engrossing  interest  of  the 
march  of  events  in  France — for 

"Europe  at  that  time  was  thrilled  with  joy, 
France  standing  on  the  top  of  golden  hours. 
And  human  nature  seeming  born  again." 

The  two  friends  landed  at  Calais  on  a  day  of  wild 
rejoicing,  that  14th  of  July  when  on  the  anniversary 
of  the  taking  of  the  Bastille  Louis  XVI  and  his  people 
mutually  took  oath  to  the  new  Constitution.  As  the 
travellers  proceeded  further,  they  fell  in  with  parties 
of  delegates  returning  from  the  great  ceremony  of 
the  Champ  de  Mars.  In  the  intoxication  of  their  new- 
found liberty,  French  patriots  were  ready  to  do  all  honour 
to  Englishmen  *as  their  forerunners  in  a  glorious 
course,'  and  Wordsworth  and  Jones  were  thus  allowed 
to  share  in  the  delirious  rejoicings  of  the  hour. 

Having  made  their  way  on  foot  by  Bar-le-Duc  to 
Chalons   and  thence  down  the   Saone  to  Lyons,    on 


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August  4th  they  reached  the  Chartreuse,  just  at  the 
time  when  the  inmates  of  the  monastery  were  ruthlessly 
ejected  by  the  revolutionary  forces.    The  sight  appealed 
strongly  to  that  conservative  and  religious    element 
in  Wordsworth's  character,  which  was  no  less  marked 
than  his  love  of  liberty,  equality,  and  a  simple  life. 
The  historical  spirit,  as  it  is  now  called,  or  if  you 
like  the  English  habit  of  mind  which  loves  to  preserve 
the  good  while  it  removes  the  evil,  is  clearly  expressed 
in  the  poet's  lines  on  this  act  of  thoughtless  excess. 
"  But  oh  I  if  Past  and  Future  be  the  wings 
On  whose  support  harmoniouslj  conjoined 
Moves  the  great  spirit  of  human  knowledge,  spare 
These  courts  of  mystery,  where  a  step  advanced 
Between  the  portals  of  the  shadowy  rocks 
Leaves  far  behind  life's  treacherous  vanities. 
For  penitential  tears  and  trembling  hopes." 
It  is  in  such  sympathy  with  the  past,  especially  with 
the  religious  past,  that  Wordsworth  breaks  away  from 
the  mental  habits  of  the  eighteenth  century  and  comes 
in  contact  with  the  Romanticism  of  Walter  Scott  and 
the  Anglican  revival  of  Newman  and  Keble. 

The  tour  lasted  till  the  middle  of  October,  fourteen 
weeks  in  all.  From  the  Chartreuse  the  route  included 
Aix,  Lausanne,  Chamounix,  the  lakes  Maggiore  and 
Como,  Splugen,  Lucerne,  the  lakes  of  Zurich  and 
Constance,  Lauterbrunnen,  Basle,  Mayence,  Coblentz 
and  Cologne.  The  journey  from  Basle  to  Cologne 
was  on  a  boat  bought  for  the  trip:  otherwise  the 
travellers  went  on  foot  and  with  a  healthy  insular 
disregard  of  foreign  conventionalities.  Wordsworth 
writes  home  to  his  sister: 

"  Our  appearance  is  singular,  and  we  have  often  observed 
that  in  passing  through  a  village  we  have  excited  a  general 
smile.  Our  coats  which  we  had  made  light  on  purpose  for  the 
journey  are  of  the  same  piece ;  and  our  manner  of  carrying  our 
bundles,  which  is  upon  our  heads,  with  each  an  oak  stick  in  our 
hands,  contributes  not  a  little  to  that  general  curiosity  which  we 
seem  to  excite." 


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The  tour  had  its  comic  side,  but  to  Wordsworth 
it  was  rich  in  good.  In  the  vastness  of  Alpine  scenery 
his  mind  saw  the  manifestation  of  an  unending  life  : 

"The  immeasurable  height 
Of  woods  decaying,  never  to  be  decayed. 
The  stationary  blasts  of  waterfalls, 
And  in  the  narrow  rent  at  every  turn 

Winds  thwarting  winds,  bewildered  and  forlorn,  { 

The  torrents  shooting  from  the  clear  blue  sky...* 

The  unfettered  clouds  and  region  of  the  Heavens,  1 

Tumult  and  peace,  the  darkness  and  the  light..* 

The  types  and  symbols  of  Eternity,  j 

Of  first,  and  last,  and  midst,  and  without  end. 

in  the  political  enthusiasm  of  the  time  he  drank  ia 

"Lessons  of  genuine  brotherhood,  the  plain 
And  universal  reason  of  mankind. 
The  truths  of  young  and  old." 

A  year  or  two  later  and  those  political  and  humani- 
tarian interests  absolutely  possessed  him :  at  present  they 
had  a  but  divided  sway.  He  was  a  young  man  with 
eyes  n^wly  opened  to  the  wonders  of  the  world,  and 
even  the  great  drama  of  Revolution  could  only 
secure  half  his  interest. 

"A  stripling,  scarcely  of  the  household  then 

Of  social  life,  I  looked  upon  these  things 

As  from  a  distance;  heard,  and  saw,  and  felt. 

Was  touched,  but  with  no  intimate  concern ; 

I  seemed  to  move  along  them,  as  a  bird 

Moves  through  the  air,  or  as  a  fish  pursues 

Its  sport,  or  feeds  in  its  proper  element; 

I  wanted  not  that  joy,  I  did  not  need 

Such  help;  the  ever-living  universe. 

Turn  where  I  might,  was  opening  out  its  glories, 

And  the  independent  spirit  of  pure  youth 

Called  forth,  at  every  season,  new  delights. 

Spread  round  my  steps  like  sunshine  o'er  green  fields." 

The  travellers  returned  to  England  by  Calais  in 
October,  and  in  November  Wordsworth  came  up  to 

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44*        2T5tf  College  Days  of  William  Wordsworth. 

Cambridge  for  his  last  term.  In  those  days  (as  we  are 
informed  by  the  courteous  Registrary  Dr  Luard),  twelve 
terms  were  nominally  required  for  the  B.A.  degfree. 
One  however  was  considered  to  have  been  kept  before 
a  man  came  up.  It  was  then  necessary  to  reside 
for  ten  terms,  after  which  in  January  of  the  fourth  year, 
in  the  nominal  twelfth  term,  the  Tripos  took  place  and 
the  degree  was  conferred.  The  supplicai  for  Words- 
worth's degree,  preserved  with  those  of  the  rest  of 
his  year  in  the  Registry,  gives  the  date  Jan.  21,  1791. 

Hiving  taken  his  degree  Wordsworth  left  Cambridge 
at  once.  After  a  visit  to  Fomcett  he  lingered  for 
some  months  in  London  in  great  doubt  'as  to  his 
ftiture,  and  then  spent  the  summer  with  his  friend 
Jones  in  Wales.  In  the  October  term  of  this  year 
1 79 1  he  seems  again  to  have  resided  for  a  few  weeks 
in  Cambridge,  but  the  attraction  of  events  in  France 
becoming  irresistible,  in  November  he  once  more 
left  England  and  became  a  most  ardent  spectator 
of  the  next  phases  of  the  Revolution. 

The  task  of  an  academic  biographer  naturally  closes 
when  his  hero  has  duly  received  the  B.A.  degree  and 
dropped  into  the  vast  ocean  of  *men  gone  down/ 
But  even  the  academic  biographer  feels  in  Wordsworth's 
case  that  his  leaving  Cambridge  is  not  the  end,  but 
the  beginning  of  a  career.  It  is  true  that  he  had 
still  to  encounter  some  rude  shocks  with  the  world 
before  his^  spiritual  training  was  complete  and  his 
message  of  joy  and  consolation  ready  to  be  delivered. 
But  when  that  message  came,  it  included  all  the 
deepest  experiences  of  the  poet's  inward  life  till  then. 
What,  we  may  ask,  did  Cambridge  contribute?  If 
by  Cambridge  we  mean  the  official  body  and  its 
effiete  system,  we  may  answer  at  once — Nothing.  But 
can  we  say  the  same  of  the  varied  influences  which 
surrounded  Wordsworth  during  his  residence  amongst 
us?  Surely  not.  We  cannot  doubt  that  in  our 
little  world  he  learnt  some  lessons  of  life-long  value 


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on  the  play  of  human  passions.  We  know  how 
much  our  quiet  landscape  trained  his  eye  and  deepened 
his  love  of  natiure — how  greatly  his  sympathy  with  the 
past  was  strengthened  among  our  ancient  buildings — 
how  the  traditions  of  Cambridge  gave  him  a  sense  of 
noble  kinship  with  the  great  poets  and  thinkers  of  old — 

•'Even  the  great  Newton's  own  ethereal  self 
Seemed  humbled  in  those  precincts,  thence  to  be 
The  more  endeared/' 

The  Wordsworth  who  left  St  John's  a  century  ago 
was  a  far  graver,  nobler,  stronger  man  than  the  Hawksr 
head  schoolboy  who  had  walked  our  streets  three  years 
before  in  the  double  importance  of  freshmanship  and 
new  clothes.  Time  would  have  done  its  work 
anywhere:  but  to  us  who  love  Cambridge  it  may  be 
permitted  to  believe  that  nowhere  would  it  have  done 
more  for  Wordsworth  than  it  did  here.  And  if  we 
hear  those  Cambridge  days  made  the  text  for 
lamentation,  as  we  sometimes  may,  let  us  picture  the 
old  poet  as  he  revisited  the  college-rooms  of  his  youth. 
"  Here,"  he  said,  "  I  was  as  joyous  as  a  lark." 

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JOHNIAN  WORTHIES  AT  THE  GUELPH 
EXHIBITION. 


|HE  "Exhibition  of  the  Royal  House  of  Ghielph" 
ll  now  occupying  the  New  Gallery,  Regent  Street, 
in  succession  to  the  "Tudor"  and  "Stuart" 
Exhibitions  of  previous  years,  is  intended  to  include 
portraits  and  memorials  of  the  chief  personages  who 
flourished  under  the  Hanoveriatf  Sovereigns  up  to  the 
accession  of  her  present  Majesty.  In  addition  to  the 
portrait  of  Wordsworth  by  Pickersgill,  the  familiar 
ornament  of  our  College  Hall  and  the  subject  of  the 
poet's  well-known  sonnet  Go^  faithful  Portraity  which 
hangs  in  a  conspicuous  position  in  the  South  Gallery, 
there  are  many  others  that  have  a  special  interest  to 
Johnians.  The  following  is  a  list  of  these,  with  the 
numbers  assigned  to  them  in  the  catalogue. 

91.    William  Wilberforce  (^759 — 1833). 

Painted  by  f.  Rising  for  Lord  Muncaster :  lent  by  the  Earl 
of  Crawford.  This  is  the  original  of  the  engraving  presented 
to  the  Small  Combination-Room  by  Mr  Scott  {Eagle  xvi.  79). 

597.    The  same. 

A  miniature:  lent  by  Mrs  Le  Fanu. 

1 16.  Charles  Watson  Wentworth,  second  Marquess 
of  Rockingham,  K.G.  (1730— 1 782), 

Lord  Hockingham  was  Prime  Minister  in  1765,  and  again 
on  the  fall  of  Lord  North's  administration  in  1782;  he  died 
in  office  in  the  same  year.  Painted  by  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds : 
lent  by  G.  G,  C.  Wentworth-Fitzwilliam,  Esq. 

1017.    The  same. 

An  enamel  miniature,  signed  "  W.  B.  1786 : "  lent  by  Jeffrey 
Whitehead,  Esq. 


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190.    William  Wordsworth  (1770— 1850). 
Painted  for  the  College  about  1831 :   lent  by  the  Master 
and  Fellows.  ^ 

197.    Matthew  Prior  (1664 — 172 1). 

This  picture  of  the  "poet,  statesman,  and  diplomatist" 
was  painted  by  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller^  and  was  formerly  in  the 
collection  of  Edward  Harley,  Earl  of  Oxford:  lent  by  the 
Stationers'  Company. 

249.    The  same. 

Painted  by  M.  Dahl^  and  presented  jby  the  poet  to  Lord 
Chancellor  Harcourt;   lent  by  E.  W.  Harcourt,  Esq. 

216.    The  Rev  William  Muir  Mason  (1725 — 1797). 

This  portrait  of  the  author  of  the  tragedies  Caraciacus  and 
Elfrida^  who  became  a  Fellow  of  Pembroke,  Chaplain  to 
George  II,  and  Canon  of  York,  was  painted  by  Sir  Joshua 
Reynolds  \   lent  by  Pembroke  College. 

224.    Richard  Bentley  D.D.  (1662 — 1742.) 

This  is  apparently  the  original  of  the  engraving  of  the  great 

scholar  presented  to  the  Small  Combination-Room  by  Dr  D. 

MacAlister  {Eagle  xv.  272).     It  bears  the  same  inscription 

*'Aet.  48,  1710."     Lent  by  Trinity  College. 

301.     Henry  Kirke  White  (1785 — 1806). 
A  half-length  portrait  of  the  poet  painted  by  /.  Hoppner, 
R,A, :  lent  by  the  Corporation  of  Nottingham. 

321.  John  Home  Tooke  (1736— 1812),  with  John 
Wilkes  and  John  Glynn. 

Three  small  figures  seated  at  a  table,  Wilkes  in  his  alder- 
man's gown  in  the  centre.  They  represent  the  principal 
characters  connected  with  the  famous  North  Briton  riots. 
Painted  hy  Houston:   lent  by  the  Baroness  Burdett-Coutts. 

.    1037.    John  Home  Tooke. 

A  miniature,  signed  "S.  Collins  1786:"  lent  by  Jeflfrey 
Whitehead,  Esq. 


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446      Joknian  Worthies  at  the  Guelph  Exhibition* 

1555.    Dr  Erasmus  Darwin  (1731 — 1802). 

1569.  Charles  Comwallis,  first  Marquess  Com- 
wallis,  K.G.  (i738-r"i8o5),  Govemor-Generid  of  India, 
Lord-Lieutenant  of  Ireland. 

Porcelain  medallions  made  by  Josiah  Wedgwood. 

171 2.  A  holograph  letter  from  the  Marquess  of 
Rockingham  to  Lord  Lyttelton:  lent  by  Viscount 
Cobham. 

1725.  A  holograph  letter  from  the  Marquess  Com* 
wallis  to  B.  Roebuck,  dated  Calcutta,  10  Nov.  1790: 
lent  by  Alfred  Morrison,  Esq. 

1739.  A  holograph  letter  from  Joseph  Addison 
to  Ambrose  Phillips  [C1671 — 1749)  formerly  Fellow], 
praising  a  pastoral  and  an  essay  on  pastoral  by  the 
latter,  though  rather  faintly.  He  goes  on  to  give 
items  of  literary  news: — "Mr  Row  has  promised  y« 
Town  a  farce  this  winter,  but  it  does  not  yet  appear.** 
"Mr  Dennis  has  a  Tragedy  that  is  now  in  its  first 
run  of  Acting.  It  is  called  Liberty  Asserted,  and 
has  ye  Whiggs  for  its  patrons  and  supporters." 

Dated  "London  10  March  1703  [4]:"  lent  by  Alfred 
Morrison,  Esq. 

1794.  A  holograph  letter  from  Matthew  Prior  to 
Lord  Grodolphin  (?),  thanking  him  for  the  continuance 
of  his  pension,  complaining  of  his  circumstances,  and 
asking  for  employment. 

Dated  "West'  July  28th  1709 :"  lent  by  H.  Saxe  Wyndham, 
Esq. 

1 8 18.  A  holograph  letter  from  William  Words- 
worth to  the  Rev  R.  Bamford,  congratulating  him 
on  the  testimony  he  had  received  of  Dr  Bell's  esteem. 

Dated  "Rydal  Mount,  May  28,  1825:"  lent  by  Alfred 
Morrison,  Esq. 

176  (Coins    and    Medals).      William    Wilberiforce. 
Slave  trade  abolished  1807. 
A  copper  medal. 


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THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  LADY  MARGARET 
BOAT  CLUB. 


MUST  begin  this  article  by  explaining  how 
it  is  that  ly  an  oarsman  of  small  repute,  am 
writing  a  notice  of  this  History  of  our  Boat 
eiub.  And  first  I  must  confess  that  I  never  was  a 
"  Light  Blue,"  nor  even  a  "  Trial  Eight "  man,  though 
my  experiences  of  the  Eight  Oar  have  often  been 
a  sore  trial  to  me. 

Certain  young  friends  of  mine  sometimes  ask  me 
(let  us  hope  seriously)  if  I  was  not  a  "  Double  Blue," 
and  I  have  so  often  been  a  looker-on  at  Putney  and 
at  Lord's  that  I  sometimes  yield  for  a  moment  to 
the  delusion  that  I  did  achieve  those  Double  Honours : 
but  the  sober  and  sad  fact  is  that  I  never  rose  beyond 
the  College  First  Eleven,  and  that  my  aquatic  honours 
are  still  less  distinguished.  During  my  third  year 
owing  to  the  wrath  of  Achilles,  alias  H.  Williams, 
No  Five  in  many  a  Putney  race,  I  for  about  a  week 
had  the  proud  and  painful  honour  of  rowing  as 
No  Four  in  the  First  Boat,  a  place  too  big  for  my 
moderate  dimensions,  George  Paley,  as  good  an  oar 
and  as  true  a  man  as  I  have  ever  met,  taking  No 
Five's  oar.  At  length  Achilles  came  out  of  his  tent ; 
Paley  went  back  to  No  Four;  and  I — well  I  was 
politely  told  that  I  left  the  crew  without  a  stain  on 
my  character,  but  that  my  services  were  no  longer 
required. 

I  have  often  tried  to  persuade  myself  that  the 
First  Boat  would  have  rowed  Head  instead  of  Third 
on  the  river  if  it  had  retained  my  services;    but  I 


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448     The  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club. 

must  confess  that  at  the  time  I  felt  that  the  oiium 
cum  dig.  of  the  Second  Boat  was  more  in  my  line 
than  the  place  of  Four  in  the  First  Boat,  which  was 
to  me  a  combination  of  labor  improbus  and  infandus 
dolor^  felt  by  me  even  now  as  I  write  the  words 
^*  Quicker  forward  Four  1" 

How  comes  it  then  that  I  am  now  writing  this 
notice  of  a  distinctly  aquatic  work  ?  I  can  say  with 
Cicero,  Recepi  causam^  nan  suscepi. 

Not  long  ago  there  came  to  me  a  handsome  volume. 
The  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club  by 
R.  H.  Forster  and  W.  Harris,  two  gentlemen  dis- 
tinguished, I  believe,  both  in  the  aquatic  and  in  the 
academic  world. 

The  book  came  to  me  as  a  present  from  Mr  Scott,  the 
Senior  Bursar  of  our  College.  I  was  delighted  with 
the  gift.  But,  alas,  •*  Something  bitter  ever  rises  from 
the  fountain  of  our  joys."  There  also  came  a  handsome 
note  from  the  Bursar  and  another  from  Dr  Mac  Alister, 
asking  me  to  write  for  "  the  Eagle  "  a  notice  of  the  book 
which  was  to  be  "as  chatty  as  you  like  to  make  it." 
The  perfervidum  ingenium  Scotorum  is  known  to  be 
irresistible.  Moreover,  all  rebellious  intentions  were 
disarmed  by  the  graciousness  of  the  gift,  the  beauty 
of  the  book,  and  the  permission  to  write  a  "  chatty " 
article.  I  felt  that  I  could  not  accept  the  book  and 
reftise  the  article,  and  as  to  returning  the  book 
which  had  charmed  my  eyes  and  won  its  way  to 
my  heart  at  first  sight,  I  was  placed  in  the  position 
of  a  fair  Irish  maiden,  who  having  accepted  "gems 
rich  and  rare*'  from  an  admirer,  and  then  reftised  his 
hand,  was  told  that  she  ought  to  return  his  presents. 
"No,"  cried  she,  "that  I'll  never  do,  TU  marry  him 
first,"  and  she  did  so. 

"Send  back  the  book!"  said  I  to  myself,  "Never! 
I'll  write  the  article  first." 

Moreover,  I  found  the  word  "chatty"  very  per- 
suasive.   A  chatty  article  I  take  to  be  one  that  may 


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or  may  not  take  notice  of  facts,  figures,  and  statistics, 
and  may  wander  here  and  there  at  its  own  sweet 
will.  On  reading  the  book,  for,  unlike  most  reviewers, 
I  have  read  a  considerable  portion  of  it,  I  find  its 
contents  as  charming  as  its  exterior.  But  it  must 
be  admitted  that  to  enjoy  a  book  like  this  one  must 
have  been  a  rowing  man,  or  be  more  or  less  familiar 
with  the  names  of  those  whose  deeds  are  recorded. 

Thus  I  find  that  the  history  of  my  own  times—- 
quorum  pars  minima  /«j'— interests  me  far  more  thaa 
that  of  the  later  years  during  which  I  have  beeu 
unable,  owing  to  my  rustication,  to  see  the  races, 
and  to  know  the  oarsmen  personally. 

It  seems  to  me  therefore  that  the  History  of  Boating 
which  shall  interest  even  the  "dry  bob"  has  yet 
to  be  written;  something  however  in  this  direction 
might,  I  think,  be  done  if  to  the  list  of  crews  foot- 
notes, as  in  the  University  Calendar^  were  added, 
describing  briefly  the  after-life  of  the  more  renowned 
oarsmen;  the  mere  names  are  ^oovai^Ta  auveTolaiv  i^ 
Bi  TO  Trav  ipfAtfvimv  xaril^ei. 

Another  defect  in  the  book,  for  which  Messrs 
Forster  and  Harris  are  in  no  way  responsible,  is 
caused  by  the  great  inaccuracy  of  many  of  the  records 
kept  by  the  former  officers  of  the  Club.  This  point  is 
I  think  referred  to  by  Dr  Morgan  in  his  admirable 
work  University  Oars.  My  own  memory,  the  worst 
in  the  world  for  facts  and  figures,  enables  me  to  point 
out  several  inaccuracies  as  regards  the  weights  and 
initials  of  well-known  oarsmen  between  pages  68 
and  91. 

A  statement  on  page  73  can  scarcely  be.  read  without 
an  incredulous  smile  by  those  who  remember  the  facts 
of  the  case.  We  lost  the  Fours  in  1857,  and  could 
hardly  have  failed  to  win  them  if  H.  Williams  had 
rowed.  "Williams,"  we  are  told,  "would  have  rowed, 
had  he  not  been  too  heavy  for  the  ship."  Credat 
Judaeus\    Williams'  weight  at  Henley  a  few  months 

VOL.  XVI.  NNN 


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450     The  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club. 

before  (see  p.  71)  was  i2St,  41b. !  Again  some  Captains 
record  the  weights  of  their  crews,  others  omit  them. 
It  would  add  to  the  interest  of  these  Chronicles  if 
the  weights  were  in  all  cases  given,  and  correctly  gfiven. 
Some  Judges,  who  are  now  weighty  authorities  on 
the  judicial  bench,  would  read  with  pleasure  the 
record  of  their  former  weights  on  the  aquatic  bench. 
Many  a  worthy  Alderman  would  be  comforted  by  the 
thought  that  he  had  once  been  a  feather-weight.  The 
fat  Rector  would  be  able  to  prove  to  his  unbelieving 
flock  that  he  was  not  always  heavy.  The  weights  of 
the  crews  are  given  consistently,  and  let  us  hope 
accurately,  during  the  last  decade. 

It  seems  to  rae  however  that  whereas  the  earlier 
chroniclers  did  attempt  to  clothe  the  dry  bones  of 
their  records  with  some  life,  the  more  modem  records 
are  rather  "  cut  and  dried."  Events  intensely  thrillingf 
are  mentioned  in  a  very  meagre  manner.  Who  -that 
saw  it  can  ever  forget  the  race  recorded  on  p.  69  ? 
What  a  wonderful  victory  was  that  of  the  stalwart 
Paley  over  the  astute  cox  of  First  Trinity,  p.  79  ?  Yet 
a  few  words  are  deemed  sufficient  notice  of  these 
events,  and  Paley  has  not  the  right  initials  assigfned 
to  him.  And  ought  not  the  tragical  death  of  Campbell 
of  Clare  (p.  160)  to  have  been  thought  worthy  of 
something  more  than  the  most  casual  allusion  ?  A 
few  foot-notes,  or  additional  descriptions,  would  tend 
to  make  the  book  more  interesting.  It  would  also 
interest  the  non-resident  members  of  the  L.M.B.C. 
if  the  present  Rules  of  the  Club  were  printed  after 
the  original  Rules.  When  I  state  my  opinion  that 
an  Index  would  add  to  the  merits  of  the  book,  my 
work  in  the  way  of  criticism  is  at  an  end. 

Most  sincerely  can  I  recommend  the  volume  to 
all  lovers  of  rowing  in  general,  and  of  the  L.M.B.C.  in 
particular.  I  will,  however,  try  to  avoid  the  bad  example 
of  many  modern  Reviewers  who  give  such  copious 
extracts  of  the  work   they   are   reviewing  that   their 


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readers  are  content  with  the  review,  and  never  buy 
or  read  the  book  itself.  Extract  of  beef  is  a  poor 
substitute  for  the  beef  itself;  and  extracts  from  books 
but  feebly  represent  the  books  themselves;  therefore, 
if  any  one  has  read  me  thus  far,  I  would  say  to  him 
**Pont  ask  me  for  extracts,  but  buy  the  book  and 
read  it," 

I  have  been  invited  to  be  "chatty,"  and  avail 
myself  of  the  invitation  to  pass  on  to  one  or  two 
points. 

The  L.M.B.C.  was  originally  an  exclusive  body^ 
as  it  partially  lost  this  character  it  became  somewhat 
anomalous.  Practically  it  was  the  College  Club,  for 
no  rival  Club  could  compete  with  it;  yet  the  odious 
"black  ball"  might  exclude  a  meritorious  candidate 
who  might  have  made  an  enemy  of  a  Captain  or  one 
of  the  mighty  ones.  During  my  Presidency  of  thirteen 
years  I  formed  a  deep  dislike  of  the  black  ball,  partly 
because  of  the  arithmetical  problems  connected  with 
it,  and  still  more  because  of  the  reckless  use  often 
made  of  it.  But  the  Club  has  not  escaped  the  de- 
mocratising spirit  of  the  day,  and  finally  in  1886  it  was 
amalgamated  with  the  other  Clubs  of  the  College. 
But  the  President  who  carried  out  this  amalga^ 
gamation  shall  tell  his  own  tale. 

"In  1885,"  writes  Mr  Heitland,  "the  finances  of 
the  L.M.B.C.  had  come  to  a  sad  pass.  With  strictest 
economy  we  just  held  our  ground,  if  we  ever  did 
that:  and  the  old  standing  debt  of  about  ;^300  or 
^320  was  a  hopeless  burden.  An  attempt  had  been 
made  to  reduce  it  a  few  years  before  by  means  of  an 
appeal  to  non-resident  members;  but  the  result  was 
failure.  So  a  few  men  talked  matters  over  with  me^ 
and  we  sounded  others  to  see  whether  a  scheme  of 
*  amalgamation '  stood  a  chance  of  being  accepted. 
We  found  that  it  did  not;  and  the  project  was 
dropped.  In  1886  the  leading  men  in  the  various 
sports— particularly  Toppio,  Symonds,  and  RoUeston — 


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452      The  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Cluh. 

seeing  no  other  way  of  checking  the  financial  decay 
and  the  general  depression  that  prevailed,  came  and 
requested  me  to  head  a  movement  for  *  amalgamation/ 
I  will  not  detail  our  early  difficulties.  It  was  the 
middle  of  May,  and  the  work  to  be  done  was  far  too 
great  for  the  time,  T.  A.  Herbert  worked  hard,  and 
so  did  others.  We  started  the  new  scheme  in  October, 
and  organized  temporarily  as  well  as  we  could.  The 
various  clubs  had  all  joined  at  the  end  of  the  May 
Term.  We  started  in  a  financially  sound  condition. 
The  debts — some  £z^o  in  all — ^were  cleared  oflf  by 
subscriptions.  Graduates  gave  about  ;^i90,  under- 
graduates about  ;^ioo,  and  the  financial  skill  of  J.  F. 
Tarleton  secured  some  reductions.  All  came  firom 
resident  members,  save  that  one  of  the  Forsters  sent 
help  which  he  insisted  on  our  accepting. 

If  the  scheme  has  not  done  all  that  the  most  sanguine 
hoped,  at  least  we  are  firee  fi-om  debt,  and  the  L.M.B.C. 
proved  itself  alive  by  bringing  the  Ladies  and  Thames 
Plates  from  Henley  in  1888." 

Such  is  the  account  with  which  Mr  HeitlanA  has 
kindly  supplied  me.  The  word  "  amalgam,"  Dr  Skeat 
tells  us,  means  ^^an  emollient";  that  the  amalgam 
applied  to  our  Clubs  has  had  no  mollifying  influence 
on  the  muscles  and  the  pluck  of  the  L.M.B.C.  has 
been  proved,  as  Mr  Heitland  points  out,  by  the 
successes  of  the  Club  at  Henley.  If  however,  as 
an  old  President,  I  may  venture  to  give  advice 
founded  on  my  own  experience,  I  would  borrow  advice 
given  to  me  when  I  began  Greek.  "Take  care  of 
the  little  words  and  the  big  words  will  take  care  of 
thejnselves  " ;  and  I  would  say  **  O  ye  L.M.B.C.  officers 
and  Captains !  take  care  of  the  lower  boats,  and  the 
First  boat  will  give  a  good  account  of  itself." 

But  I  have  been  putting  the  cart  before  the  horse ; 
for  omitting  the  early  and  middle  part  of  the  history 
I  have  been  describing  the  great  event  of  1886. 

Much  could  I  write  of  the  ancient  histoiy  of  our 


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Club,  of  such  names  as  Selw)m,  Snow,  Beebee,  Tyrrell, 
Colquhoun,    Merivale,   Paley,   names  which   in    many 
cases  prove  how  true  are  the  words  of  Horace 
Est  in  juvencis,  est  in  equis  patrum 
Virtus. 

Much  could  I  write  of  the  ancient  Coxen's  Bugle, 
of  the  Panthermanticon,  the  Cheimonobaptists,  the 
Trinity  Tobacco  Pipes  and  Punch  Bowls  (tremble  ye 
trainers!),  of  the  Trinity  Privateer  and  the  Johnian 
Corsair^  the  Ancient  Mariners,  and  the  V.C.  who 
sixty  years  ago  requested  the  Boat  Clubs  to  refrain 
from  racing  because  the  cholera  was  raging  at  Sunder- 
land, For  these  points  of  interest  I  must  again  refer 
my  patient  reader  to  the  History  of  the  L.M,B.C. 
Much  profit  and  pleasure  may  also  be  derived  from 
my  friend  Mr  Bateman's  elegant  Aquatic  NoteSy  and 
Dr  Morgan's  University  Oars. 

The  last-named  work  is  well  worth  serious  study. 
It  has  been  lent  to  me  by  the  author's  brother,  the 
well-known  Master  of  Jesus  College,  the  hero  of  a 
hundred  boat  races,  and  a  living  specimen  of  the 
benefits  conferred  by  the  manly  exercises  of  rowing 
and  walking,  and  the  free  use  of  tjie  Welsh  language. 
In  that  book  Dr  Morgan,  a  physician  of  large 
experience,  has  shown  by  careful  statistics  that  boat- 
racing  is  so  far  from  having  an  injurious  effect  on  a 
sound  man's  health  that  it  tends  to  strengthen  the 
constitution  and  to  preserve  life.  This  is  a  point 
which  rowing  men  must  not  allow  to  be  forgotten, 
for  if  the  charges  brought  against  boat-racing  by 
Mr  Skey  in  1867  were  well  founded,  it  would  be  our 
painful  duty  to  follow  the  example  of  many  modern 
politicians  and  to  re-consider  our  position,  and  possibly 
to  substitute  some  less  fatal  exercise  for  rowing. 

As  it  is,  Dr  Morgan  has  shown  by  the  testimony 
of  old  University  Oars  from  the  first  race  in  1829  to 
that  in  1869  that  on  the  whole  longevity  and  health  are 
aided  rather  than  impaired  by  boat-racing. 


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This  point  is  so  important,  and  the  general  public 
(as  by  and  bye  I  hope  to  show  by  some  illustrations) 
is  so  ignorant  on  the  subject,  that  I  wish  in  some  way 
to  supplement  Dr  Morgan's  verdict. 

In  1867  Mr  Wright,  First  Trinity,  a  nephew  of 
the  Hon  Mr  Justice  Denman,  won  the  Colquhoun 
Sculls  in  his  first  year.  Mr  Denman,  having  obtained 
the  same  honour  in  1842,  celebrated  the  double  event 
by  a  dinner  in  London  to  all  winners  of  the  Sculls 
whom  he  could  gather  together.  He  kindly  invited 
me,  as  President  of  the  L.M.B.C.,  to  the  dinner,  at 
which  I  was  a  minnow  among  Tritons,  as  I  was  almost 
the  only  guest  who  had  not  won  the  Sculls.  I  must 
say  that  a  better  preserved  set  of  Tritons  it  would 
be  hard  to  imagine. 

With  a  view  to  meeting  Mr  Skey's  charges  Mr 
Denman  had  collected  a  mass  of  evidence  which  his 
judicial  mind  had  carefully  sifted.  He  has  been  so 
good  as  to  refresh  my  memory  quite  recently.  "  When 
we  met  (1867),**  he  writes,  "there  had  been  31  winners 
of  the  Colquhouns,  of  whom  25  were  still  alive,  and 
6  accounted  for  by  murder,  accidents,  and  fevers." 
(It  is  a  singular  fact,  and  one  noticed  by  Dr  Morgan, 
that  great  oarsmen  are  more  liable  to  fevers  than  to 
other  attacks  of  illness.)  Mr  Denman  goes  on  to  say 
that  he  believes  in  1867  ^^  stated  that  every  one  of 
his  crew  (Head  of  the  river  in  1842)  was  still  alive 
25  years  after;  that  every  member  of  Charles  Selwyn's 
crew  (Head  of  the  river  in  1835)  was  alive  31  years 
after ;  and  that  only  two  out  of  six.  of  the  Guards' 
crew  (a  six-oar  which  rowed  from  Oxford  to  London 
in  a  day,  and  according  to  common  rumour  all  died 
soon  after)  were  dead  40  years  after,  and  they  were 
killed  in  battle.  I  may  add  that  my  friend  Mr  Goldie, 
a  hero  of  later  date,  has  assured  me  not  many  days 
ago,  with  the  most  cheerful  of  smiles  on  a  countenance 
radiant  with  health,  that  rowing  has  certainly  done 
him  no  harm. 


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Why  do  I  record  these  statements  ?  Partly  to 
re-assure  the  oarsmen  of  the  day  whose  fond  relatives 
tell  them  that  rowing  is  shortening  their  lives, 
and  partly  to  open  the  eyes  of  the  said  relatives, 
and  to  save  them  from  feeling  and  spreading  false 
alarms.  I  have  been  assured  by  a  distinguished 
physician  who  knows  Cambridge  men  well  that  if  a 
man  is  sound  and  well-built,  discreet  and  careful  in 
his  training,  and  still  more  careful  as  to  how  he 
goes  out  of  training,  there  are  few  better  prescriptions 
for  a  long  life  and  short  doctor's  bills  than  the  use 
of  the  oar. 

But  the  general  public  on  this,  as  on  some  other 
points,  need  instruction. 

I  once  happened  to  remark  that  No  2  in  a  Uni- 
versity Crew  rowed  "  out  of  the  boat."  "  Impossible, 
my  dear  Sir ! "  cried  a  high  Wrangler  with  warmth, 
*'that  a  man  should  row  a  boat  while  he  is  outside 
it  is  a  sheer  impossibility." 

On  another  occasion,  I  was  describing  a  boat-race 
to  a  medical  man,  and  I  stated  "  that  one  of  the  Oxford 
men  caught  a  crab,  and  the  result  was  a  dead-heat." 
**  Caught  a  crab  ! "  cried  my  friend,  "  that  was  clever ! 
But  how  could  he  manage  it  while  he  was  rowing?" 
I  once  asked  a  friend,  a  fellow-Fellow,  who  had 
Resided  in  Cambridge  more  than  fifteen  years,  to  walk  • 
with  me  to  see  the  May  Races,  and  his  reply  was 
"  Well,  I  think  I  will,  for  I've  never  seen  a  boat-race 
yet."  And  my  friend  rose  to  be  a  distinguished 
ecclesiastic !  Such  ignorance  is  lamentable,  but  we 
may  hope  that  in  these  days  of  School  Boards  the 
public  will  soon  be  better  taught,  and  that  the  notion 
that  rowing  is  injurious  to  health  may  soon  be  out  of 
date.  That  rowing  is  good  moral  and  mental  training 
is  proved  by  the  mere  names  of  Chitty,  Denman, 
Selwyn,  Merivale,  and  others  quos  enumerare  longtim 
est.  We  may  go  further,  and  maintain  that  the  man 
who  rows  in  the .  right   spirit  derives  spiritual  good 


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also ;  for  it  is  well  known  that  not  a  few  of  our  best 
Missionaries  and  Divines  have  been  great  at  the 
oar,  and  have  owned  the  debt  that  they  owe  to  the 
river.  That  the  present  race  of  rowers  is  not  degenerate 
in  bodily  strength  may  be  inferred  from  their  increased 
weight  and  height*;  that  they  will  also  distinguish 
themselves  afterwards  and  lead  long  and  usefiil 
lives  there  is  good  reason  to  hope. 

Labitur  et  labetur  in  omne  volubilis  csvum  is  true 
not  only  of  our  river,  sluggish  though  it  be,  but  also, 
we  may  hope,  of  the  race  of  rowers.  Long  may  they 
glide  on  their  sliding  seats  and  plough,  but  never 
dig,  its — I  was  going  to  say  "  waters "  ;  but  I  leave 
it  to  our  Natural  Science  men  to  give  a  proper  name 
to  the  latest  combination  of  Cloaca  and  Cam. 

And  now  I  must  say  vos  valete  to  the  patient  readers, 
if  any,  who  have  followed  me  "from  start  to  finish.'* 
I  am  afraid  I  cannot  add  et  platidite.  None  the  less 
I  hope  that  my  rambling  remarks  may  stir  up  the 
aquatic  spirit  of  past  and  present  oarsmen,  and  that 
this  excellent  History  of  the  L.M.B.C.  may  lead  to 
the  publication  of  further  records,  which,  if  less 
statistical,  may  be  equally  interesting.  Rowing  is  some- 
thing more  and  better  than  mere  sport.  There  are 
many  heart-stirring  sounds  connected  with  our  English 
sports:  the  Tally-ho  of  the  huntsman,  the  whirring 
of  skates  in  a  clear  frosty  air,  the  Jodel  of  the  Swiss 
g^ide,  and  even  the  rattling  cannonade  of  the 
Racquet  Court,  are  as  sweet  music  in  my  ear;  but 
the  most  heart-stirring  sound  of  all  is  the  measured 
beat  of  eight  oars  striking  the  water  in  unison. 
As  one  grows  older  the  music  sometimes  sounds 
sadly,  as  it  reminds  one  of  friends,  once  stalwart  and 
true,  whose  days  on  land   and   water  are   over;   sad 

♦  I  am  informed  by  the  President  (1891)  of  the  O.U.B.C.  that  the 
average  height  of  the  Oxford  Crew  in  1889  was  6  ft  2  in.,  and  in  1890  well 
over  6  ft.  Would  it  not  be  well  to  give  in  future  the  height  as  well  as  the  weight 
of  each  member  of  a  University  or  First  Boat  Crew  ? 


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too  is  it  to  have  brought  home  to  one  the  painful 
reality  that  one's  own  arms  and  legs  and  lungs 
would  tell  a  sad  but  true  tale  if  one  tried  again  to 
row  Four  in  the  L.M.B.C.  First  Boat.  But,  whatever 
may  be  the  state  of  arms  and  legs  and  lungs,  the 
heart  that  has  once  loved  rowing  loves  it  always. 
To  all  who  ^re  young  and  sound  I  would  in  con- 
clusion say — 

Row  in  an  eight-oar,  while  you  may: 
No  exercise  beats  rowing; 

And  you,  fond  freshman  of  to-day, 
Will  in  three  years  be  going. 

Postscript, — In  order  to  obtain  the  latest  information 
I  wrote  to  Lord  Ampthill,  the  vigorous  President  of 
the  O.U.B.C.  His  answer  reached  me  too  late  for 
incorporation  with  this  article,  but  I  gladly  avail 
myself  of  the  privilege  of  a  Postscript  that  my  readers 
may  benefit  by  the  opinions  of  one  whose  Eton  and 
Oxford  experiences  so  well  qualify  him  to  be  a  judge. 
Our  Dark  Blue  opponent  fully  believes  that  rowing  is 
distinctly  beneficial  to  health,  unless  a  man  has  some 
organic  defect  in  his  heart  or  lungs.  He,  however, 
describes  as  "little  short  of  lunacy"  the  conduct  of 
some  men,  however  sound  and  strong  they  may  be, 
who  row  in  races  without  training.  He  states  that  no 
man  is  now-a-days  asked  to  row  in  any  good  crew  who 
has  not  previously  been  subjected  to  a  medical  exami- 
nation. This  should  re-assure  the  nervous  parent. 
Lord  Ampthill  concludes  with  some  excellent  remarks 
on  the  advantages  of  rowing  as  *a  discipline'  likely 
to  counteract  the  discontent  and  many  other  evils  of 
the  age.  While  thanking  him  for  his  letter,  I  am 
tempted,  as  I  think  of  Putney  and  Mortlake,  to  cry — 
Quum  talis  et  tanius  sis^  utinam  noster  esses ! 

E.  W.  Bowling. 


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ON  NATURAL  HISTORY  AND  OTHER  PURIS 
NATURALIBUS. 

^H^HIS  little  lecture  was  delivered  in  the  Com- 
ijifgll  bination-room  at  the  commencement  of  the 
new  year.  I  have  been  asked  to  publish  it 
in  view  of  the  foundation  of  an  Agricultural  Department 
in  this  University,  which  is  to  teach  us  everything 
from  the  price  of  cereals  to  the  geology  of  the  Cretaceous 
Period.  The  wonders  of  the  Animal  Kingdom  there- 
fore attain  a  new  interest  for  us,  and  it  is  hoped  that 
these  chapters  may  serve  as  short  monographs  of 
what  we  at  present  know  on  the  subject  of  the 
animals  that  may  be  found  on  the  Home-Farm,  whether 
in  their  wild  state  or  domesticated. 

Chapter  I.    Of  the  Fluke^  the  Boiy  and  the  Trichina. 

The  Fluke  is  nothing  if  not  domesticated.  It  begins 
life  as  a  parasite  of  a  freshwater  shell-fish,  which  is 
perhaps  as  lowly  an  origin  as  the  humblest  of  us 
could  desire.  We  next  find  it  in  the  interior  of  the 
Sheep,  because  it  likes  to  have  spme  place  it  can 
call  a  Home ;  at  this  stage  of  its  career  it  is  known 
as  the  Staggers,  and  causes  its  host  to  appear  ring- 
straked.  It  eventually,  I  believe,  developes  into  some 
common  object  of  the  microscope. 

Contrariwise  the  Bot  is  the  young  of  the  Gad-fly. 
In  its  history  we  find  one  of  the  most  remarkable 
adaptations  in  Nature  of  the  means  to  the  end  and 
of  both  to  the  ridiculous.  The  mother-fly  lays  her 
eg^  on  the  tongue  of  the  Horse,  so  that,  when  that 
noble  animal  opens  its  mouth  to  laugh,  the  embryo 


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Gad-fly  falls  out  and  perishes  miserably.  Thus,  by 
a  simple  mechanical  contrivance  the  balance  of 
Nature  is  maintained.  If  it  were  not  for  this,  statis- 
ticians inform  us,  there  would  be  in  sixteen  generations 
three  Gad-flies  to  every  square  inch  of  the  habitable 
globe,  for  this  insect  knows  nothing  of  the  Prudential 
Check. 

The  Trichina  is  the  cause  of  measles  in  pork,  which 
may  be  called  a  corruptio  optimi.  I  do  not  know 
much  about  this  creature,  but  I  have  been  told  that, 
if  you  cut  out  the  Trichinae  from  a  square  inch  of 
the  muscle  of  a  diseased  pig  and  set  them  end  to  end, 
they  would  reach  as  far  as  an  express  train  from 
here  to  St  Paul's,  travelling  at  a  uniform  speed.  The 
moral  is  that  we  should  cook  our  pork,  which  at  the 
same  time  cooks  the  goose  of  the  Trichina  by  the 
Law  which  Naturalists  call  Correlation.  I  do  not 
think  the  Trichina  developes  into  anything  else,  but 
it  reproduces  itself  in  interminable  lengths  like  a 
popular  Novelist. 

Chapter  II.     Of  the  common  Eagle. 

This  usually  featherless  biped  is  the  King  of  Birds. 
He  can  gaze  with  unblenched  eyes  at  the  Sun.  He 
also  feeds  on  cox-combs  and  other  internal  mechanisms. 
If  you  try  to  stare  him  out  of  countenance,  he  yawns, 
says  "Yap"  (which  is  as  near  as  he  can  get  to  an 
expletive),  and  works  his  wings  as  if  they  were  dumb- 
bells till  he  tumbles  off  his  perch.  Then  with  a  quiet 
dignity  he  puts  his  head  in  his  waistcoat  pocket  and 
winds  up  his  Waterbury. 

Chapter  III.    Of  the  Sole. 

This  succulent  fish  has  one  eye  permanently  round 
the  corner,  like  the  honorable  member  for  Emmanuel. 
He  is  white  on  one  side  and  dark  on  the  other,  like 
many  another  honest  Englishman.  I  used  to  think  that 
the  white   side  was  the  underside  and  the  egg-and- 


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breadcrumb  the  upper;  but  it  is  not  so.  They  are 
rights  and  lefts.  The  reason  for  this  arrangement, 
I  am  told,  is  as  follows.  When  an  enemy  looks  down 
upon  the  fish  from  above  it  sees  only  the  dark  part,  and 
says  to  itself  "  This  can't  be  a  sole,"  and  the  same 
thing  occurs  mutatis  mutandis  with  the  enemy  from 
below,  and  before  they  have  time  to  compare  notes 
the  Sole  is  escaped  out  of  the  net  of  the  Fowler. 
This  doesn't  sound  to  me  very  plausible,  but  of  course 
in  Science  we  do  not  expect  to  arrive  at  the  exact 
truth ;  what  we  hope  for  is  a  good  working  hypothesis, 
which  will  enable  us  to  bring  out  our  book  before 
the  other  man's.  To  returA,  the  method  of  progression 
of  the  Sole  is  wobbly,  but  not  unstatesmanlike. 

Chapter  IV.     0/  the  Hippopotamus. 

Much  has  been  written  of  this  interesting  animal, 
but  there  is  still  something  left  for  the  gleaner.  He 
combines  the  bland  expression  of  a  certain  eminent 
Cabinet  Minister  with  the  pachydermatous  hide  of 
our  political  opponents — whichever  side  they  are.  He 
was  apparently  fashioned  by  Nature  before  she  made 
the  lasses  o!  and  his  delicate  curves  were  put  in 
with  a  pickaxe. 

Chapter  V.    Of  the  Stork. 

The  Stork  is  chiefly  remarkable  for  having  what 
I  believe  Mathematicians  call  a  re-entrant  angle  in  its 
knee,  so  that  it  works  its  legs  on  the  mious  side  of 
the  directrix,  like  the  less  reputable  branch  of  the 
hyperbola.  It  has  to  take  a  back  seat  in  the  pew  to 
leave  room  for  its  devotions.  The  female  Stork  in 
the  Zoological  Gardens  builds  in  washing-baskets  for 
preference.  It  can  stand  on  one  leg  with  its  head 
between  its  shoulder-blades  as  long  as  it  can  get 
anyone  to  look  at  it.  It  then  puts  the  other  foot 
down  gingerly  as  if  the  earth  was  red-hot  and  chuckles. 


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Chapter  VI.    Of  the  Pelican. 

The  Pelican  is  a  fertile  cross  between  a  flamingo, 
a  goose,  and  a  magazine-rifle.  He  is  fed  at  3  p.m. 
After  dinner  he  shakes  himself,  wags  his  tail,  hops 
solemnly  three  times  on  both  feet,  and  thinks  about 
to-morrow's  breakfast.  He  then  reproduces  a  damaged 
fish  from  his  dewlap,  which  he  looks  at  for  some  time 
with  unutterable  contempt,  .but  eventually  bolts  when 
he  sees  his  missus  coming. 

This  is  the  Pelican  of  the  Wilderness,  the  Pelican 
of  Gerrard  Street  is  a  different  bird  and  feeds  later. 

Chapter  VII.  Of  the  Love-bird.  • 
This  bird  is  created  in  pairs,  and  for  the  purposes 
of  commerce  is  painted  green.  It  is  the  husband  of 
one  wife,  and  when  she  departs  this  life  it  mopes 
and  never  smiles  again.  It  dies  in  the  odour  of  sanctity 
with  cotton-wool  in  its  ears.  We  know  what  this 
kind  of  bird  thinks  of  us,  but  it  never  knows  what 
we  think  of  it.     It  is  a  humbug  to  the  last. 

Chapter  VIII.  Of  the  Bacillus. 
As  this  creature  is  still  subjudice  and  the  microscope, 
it  would  be  indelicate  to  say  more  than  this,  that  mixed 
with  glycerine  and  rats'  spleens  it  forms  a  nutritious 
diet  for  invalids  and  children.  It  is  supplied  in  phials 
(flavoured  to  suit  the  disease)  at  a  moderate  profit  to 
Crowned  Heads  and  other  Personages. 

Chapter  IX.  Of  the  Glow-worm. 
Shakespeare  and  others,  who  should  have  known 
better,  tell  us  that  the  Glow-worm  lights  her  lamp 
as  a  kind  of  Matrimonial  News  Agency  and  Scottish 
Widows.  But  we  are  not  to  be  taken  in.  If  an 
emancipated  lady  Glow-worm  wanted  to  marry  she 
would  say  so,  and  on  a  rebuff  go  about  saying  that 
the  retiring  modesty  of  British  Maidenhood  was  not 
appreciated,  and  then  start  a  new  religion  or  at  least 
a  lay  mission. 


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Chapter  X.     0/  the  Beetle  in  General. 

This  is  an  excellent  fowl,  though  it  has  six  legs. 
Plato  tells  us  in  the  Symposium  that  Man  originally 
had  four  legs,  and  had  a  much  better  time  of  it  than 
we  have  at  present,  because  he  could  do  "three  cart- 
wheels a  penny "  with  ease.  This  made  him  haughty. 
A  fortiori  six  legs  is  too  many  and  has  a  suggestion 
of  a  luggage-train  about  it.  Even  an  omnibus  has 
only  four.-  However,  the  Beetle  is  good  to  collect, 
and,  as  he  does  not  use  the  Monkey  Brand,  his  clothes 
will  wash. 

Chapter  XI.     Of  the  Lap-wing  or  Peewit. 

The  Lap-wing  is  a  striking  example  of  the  develop- 
ment of  the  maternal  instinct.  When  a  sportsman 
approaches  too  near  her  nest,  she  decoys  him  from 
her  callow  brood  by  flying  as  if  with  broken  wing. 
The  result  is  that  the  mother  Lap-wing  is  shot,  and 
the  young  Lap-wings  eventually  appear  at  table  as 
golden  plover. 

Chapter  XII.    Of  the  Bower-bird. 

The  bower-bird  of  Australia  is  chiefly  remarkable 
for  running  away  with  its  neighbour's  land-mark, 
contrary  to  the  provisions  of  the  Commination  Service. 
It  then  gives  a  small  and  early  to  celebrate  the  event, 
whereat  the  best  dancers  secure  their  partners  for 
life.  The  rest  go  back  to  their  interrupted  occupation 
of  hunting  for  sardine-tins-  and  other  treasure-trove 
to  adorn  their  bowers. 

Chapter  XIII.     Of  the  Rhinoceros. 

This  is  one  of  the  most  comic  of  animals.  It  has 
the  air  of  an  old-clothes-man,  who  has  put  all  his 
stock-in-trade  on  his  back  regardless  of  fit — omnia 
viea  mecum  portOy  as  Caesar  said  to  the  recalcitrant 
boatman.     I  watched  him    in  the  Zoo   last  autumn ; 


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he  was  running  round  his  enclosure,  and  whenever 
he  came  to  a  particular  place  he  stopped  and  snorted, 
and  then  trundled  on  again  with  all  the  grace  of  the 
Salvation  Army.  Perhaps  he  was  beginning  to  realise 
that  after  all  he  is  only  a  grand  old  Pig  with  a  wart 
on  his  nose. 

Chapter  XIV.     Of  the  Ormfhorhynchus  paradoxus. 

The  Omithorhynchus  paradoxus  or  Duck-billed 
Platypus  is  a  little  mixed.  He  is  the  Tory  Democrat 
or  Protestant  Home-Ruler  of  the  animal  world — I 
mean  it  is  a  little  difficult  to  trace  his  affinities  and 
discover  his  purpose  in  the  Scheme  of  Creation.  For 
a  long  time  we  did  not  know  whether  he  was  viviparous 
or  oviparous,  but  Cambridge  may  be  proud  that 
that  question  was  set  at  rest  by  one  of  her  sons,  who 
dissected  as  many  as  he  could  lay  his  hands  on,  and 
telegraphed  the  thrilling  message  to  Montreal :  "  Mother 
and  e^g  both  doing  as  well  as  can  be  expected." 
I  believe  by  the  way  the  beast  was  getting  rare  and 
has  doubtless  now  been  finished  off,  which  shows 
the  superiority  of  the  Scientific  Researcher  over  the 
Mere  Collector. 

Chapter  XV.    0/  the  Human. 

Man  is  the  roof  and  crown  of  things.  Cambridge, 
it  is  generally  allowed,  is  the  roof  and  crown  of 
man ;  and  the  roof  and  crown  of  Cambridge  for  some 
time  to  come  will  be  the  Agricultural  Syndicate.  I 
.have  now  worked  up  from  the  lowest  of  created  beings 
to  the  highest,  and  will  therefore  conclude. 

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NOTES  FROM  THE  COLLEGE  RECORDS. 

(Continued  from  /.  257.^ 

^S  the  Colleges  g^ew  in  size  and  importance  many 
of  them  obtained  the  consent  of  the  Town  to 
enclose  common  or  waste  grounds  lying  about 
their  precincts.  A  list  of  such  enclosures  is  given  by 
Baker  in  his  MSS  (^BriL  Mus.  HarL  MSS  7041  fol. 
119).  In  the  year  1599  Trinity  College  wished  to 
enclose  the  N.W.  portion  of  *  Garret  Hostel  Green/ 
a  piece  of  common  ground  bounded  by  the  River  and 
King's  Ditch.  This  enclosure  was  hotly  opposed  by 
.  St  John's  College.  Mention  is  made  of  this  by  Baker 
{BrtL  Mils.  HarL  MSS  7038  fol.  298)  where  he  says 
that  it  appears  from  letters  inter  archiva  that  Arch- 
bishop Whitgift  "was  vehement  in  the  thing." 

In  Cole's  MS  XLi  {Brit.  Mm.  Add.  MSS  5842 
p  320)  there  is  a  document  setting  forth  the  demands  of 
St  John's,  the  College  claiming  through  its  tenants  to 
have  exercised  rights  of  common  over  the  land.  In 
Willis  and  Clark's  Architectural  History  of  the  Univer- 
sity (II  p  407 — 412)  will  be  found  many  details  with 
respect  to  this  controversy.  And  the  case  for  Trinity 
College,  taken  from  the  State  Papers^  will  be  found  at 
p  41 1.  When  Mr  J.  W.  Clark  was  preparing  this  work 
for  the  press  Whitgift's  letters  to  St  John's  could  not  be 
found.  Now,  however,  the  proverbial  needle  has  been, 
found  in  the  stack  of  our  muniments,  and  I  am  able 
not  only  to  give  these,  but  other  letters  relating  to 
the  same  matter.  It  should  be  remembered  that  our 
Second  Court  was  being  built  at  this  time  by  the 
Countess  of  Shrewsbury. 


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'  Whitgift,  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  had  been 
Master  of  Trinity  from  1567  to  1577.  He  was  one 
of  the  Commissioners  appointed  by  Queen  Elizabeth 
to  provide  new  Statutes  for  the  College;  there  being, 
according  to  Archbishop  Grindal,  no  authentic  copy 
of  the  older  Statutes  in  the  College,  and  the  Fellows 
being  accused  of  paying  but  little  attention  to  such 
books  of  Statutes  as  they  possessed.  This  no  doubt 
accounts  for  the  pertinacity  with  which  the  College 
urged  that  they  were  prevented  by  their  Statutes 
and  in  particular  by  the  42nd  (De  bonis  et  posses- 
sionibtis  Collegii  non  altenandis)  from  consenting  to 
the  enclosure. 

The  Dean  of  St  Paul's  was  at  this  time  Alexander 
Nowell  of  Brasenose  College,  Oxford.  He  became 
Dean  of  St  Paul's  in  1560.  In  addition  he  was  Rector 
of  Much  Hadham  in  Hertfordshire  from  1562  to  1592, 
when  he  was  succeeded  by  Theophilus  Ailmer  of  whom 
mention  has  been  made  in  these  notes  ( CltUterbttcK s 
History  of  Hertfordshire).  According  to  Fuller  he  was 
uncle  of  Dr  Whitaker,  Master  of  St  John's  1586-95 
{Holy  State^  Life  of  Dr  Whitaker)  and  he  was  one  of 
the  advisers  of  Lady  Mildred  Cecil  our  benefactress 
(^Mayor-Baker  594,  5), 

Thomas  Nevile  was  Master  of  Trinity  from  1594  till 
1 615.  Originally  of  Pembroke  Hall  he  became  Master 
of  Magdalene  1582-93,  Dean  of  Peterborough  1590-91, 
and  Dean  of  Canterbury  1597.  He  is  buried  in  Canter- 
bury Cathedral.  He  was  a  great  benefactor  to  Trinity 
College. 

Robert  Bouth  or  Booth  was  of  Cheshire,  B.A.  157 J, 
Fellow  of  St  John's  157 J  and  at  one  time  Bursar. 
Some  notes  concerning  him  will  be  found  in  Mr 
Tony's  Founders  and  Benefactors  of  the  College  p  17. 
(See  also  Camb,  Antiq.  Soc,  Com.  I  p  348>  He  seems 
to  have  been  of  the  household  of  the  Countess  of 
Shrewsbury,  who  lived  in  Broad  Street ;  perhaps  he  was 
Chaplain.    It  was  through  his  unwearied  agency  that 

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our  Second  Court  was  built.  He  seems  to  have  been 
very  anxious  to  adorn  it  with  a  fountain  and  left  a 
legacy  of  ;^300  to  build  one.  This  money  was, 
however,  applied  to  other  purposes. 

Henry  Alvey  was  a  Nottinghamshire  man,  son  of 
Robert  Alvey  and  Catherine  daughter  and  co-heiress 
of  William  Boun  de  Hulme.  {Thoroton's  Antiquities  of 
Nottingham  p  335).  He  was  a  noted  Puritan  and  a 
benefactor  to  the  College.  B.A.  157^,  Fellow  1577. 
He  was  third  Provost  of  Trinity  College  Dublin  1601-9, 
and  died  in  Cambridge  25  January  1626  (Usher's  Letters 
No  117).  Curiously  enough  there  is  no  life  of  him  in 
the  Dictionary  of  National  Biography. 

William  Pratt  was  elected  Fellow  of  the  College  in 
1587.  The  College  presented  him  to  the  Vicarage  of 
Higham  in  Kent  in  1591,  but  this  he  resigned  in  1592 
{Mayor-Baker  435,  6).  He  became  Rector  of  Stevenage 
5  December  1598  and  died  there  1629,  aged  67.  There 
is,  or  was,  a  monument  to  his  memory  in  the  Chancel 
of  Stevenage  Church  {Clutterbuck's  Herts^  II  443,  4). 

Addressed:  To  my  verie  louing  ffrendes  the  Maister  and  Seniors 
of  St  Johns  College  in  Cambridge,    dd. 

After  my  right  hartie  Commendations.  I  doc  vnderstand  that 
Trinitie  College  hath  obteyned  the  good  will  of  the  Towne 
of  Cambridge,  that  for  the  better  ease  and  conveniencie  of 
that  Societee  they  may  enclose  that  portion  of  grounde,  w*^^ 
lyeth  beyond  the  River,  and  behinde  the  College:  Wherein 
it  may  bee,  that  some  fFarmers  of  landes  belonging  to  yC 
College  thereaboutes,  may  challenge  Common  of  Pasture  for 
their  Cattell.  And  forasmuche  as  I  am  enformed,  that  the 
rest  of  the  Lordes  in  ffee,  who  haue  Maners  there  also,  are 
for  all  their  partes  right  well  contented,  that  Trinitie  College 
shall  haue  the  vse  and  benefite  thereof,  w<^^  may  be  a  greate 
pleasure  vnto  them:  I  am  in  all  earnest  maner  to  desier 
yo**,  that  yo"  will  likewise  geue  yo'  consent  therevntoo,  so 
that  the  work  there  nowe  in  hand  may  quietly  goe  forward, 
without  exception  theretoo  by  you  to  bee  taken,  or  any  their 
molestation.     Yo°  cannot  but  knowe  howe  well  I  wish  to 


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Trinitie  College :  and  therefore  I  hope  yo**  will  haue  a  special! 
regard  of  this  my  Motion  vnto  yo"  in  the  behalf  thereof:  and 
assuredly  I  will  not  forgett  yo"^  readinesse  in  performing 
this  my  request,  but  remayne  thankfull  vnto  yo*»  for  it,  in 
any  occasion  that  shall  be  offred  concerning  yo«>.  And  so 
not  doubting  of  your  forwardnesse  in  so  reasonable  a  cause, 
I  committ  yo<*  to  the  tuition  of  allmightie  god.  fifrom 
Lambehith,  the  vii*^  of  Marche 

yo'  assured  loving  firende 
Jo:  Cantuar. 


Addressed:  To  the  right  wo'  my  verie  loving  frind  M'  D'  Clay- 
ton Maister  of  St  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambridge  dd. 

S^  so  it  is  that  we  haue  of  late  compounded  with  the  towne  of 
Cambridge  for  the  inclosinge  of  that  whole  plott  of  grounde 
wci»  lyeth  beyond  the  river  ouer  against  our  Colledge.  And 
vpon  request  made  have  more  obteyned  of  our  verie  good 
frinds  (such  as  are  the  Lords  of  Manners  there  about  the 
towne)  that  they  also  (tenderinge  o'  greate  ease  and  con- 
veniencie)  are  for  their  parts  right  willinge  therew^*»all.  Nowe 
whereas  the  flfarmers  of  Landes  belonginge  to  yo'  Colledge  may 
challenge  libertie  of  feedinge  therein,  I  was  verie  forgetfull 
if  at  our  last  being  togither  I  did  not  make  the  like  request 
vnto  you,  w«*»  I  had  made  vnto  them,  I  do  assure  you  it  was 
my  full  purpose  so  to  do.  But  if  that  were  not  then  done,  to 
recompence  the  omission,  I  haue  nowe  procured  his  Gr: 
earnestlie  to  recomend  this  o'  Colledge  cause  vnto  you.  And 
for  my  owne  parte  so  desirous  am  I  to  maintaine  peace  and  all 
good  offices  of  frindship  between  the  Colledge,  That  if  yo'self 
shall  advise  anie  other  course  yet  more  to  be  taken  for  the 
better  satisfaction  of  yo'  Societie,  I  will  endevo'  the  same  by 
all  I  am  able.  Thus  remembring  my  hartiest  comendacons 
I  betake  you  vnto  Gods  blessed  keeping,  ffrom  Puddlewharf 

in  London.  8  Mar:  1599. 

yo'  very  assured  loving  frind 
Thomas  Nevilb 

Addressed:  To  y«  right  wor":  my  assured  frend  M'  D'  Claiton 

M'  of  St  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambr.  d'. 
S'  this  bear'  togeth'  w*  my  Ire  now  to  yo'  self  &  y«  seniors 
will  fully  acquaint  yo«  w*  y®  effect  w^  yo'  ioynt  Ire  to  me 


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concerning  yo'  building  hath  wrought  I  doubt  JC  crosy 
neighbo"  will  much  ov'rule  yo"  for  y*  w*  is  now  in  questio. 
I  desyre  greatly  jr*  yo**  might  by  composicon  gett  a  brawnch 
fro  their  conduit  pipe  for  yo'  CoUedg,  bycause  I  suppose  one 
would  gladly  (vppo  y*  help)  make  yo"  a  fayre  conduitt  in 
yo*^  new  Court,  ^^i  yo°  cannot  have  reason  at  theyr  hands, 
then  I  hope  yo°  shall  fynde  frends  able  to  cross  theyr  desyre, 
at  the  least  when  it  shall  come  to  be  confirmed  by  act  of 
pliam^  Theyr  ho"  love  yo'*  well  and  salute  yo«  kyndelye: 
&  so  w*  harty  comendacons  fro  myself  &  yo'  oth*^  frendes  here, 
I  coniitt  yo^  to  god.  in  hast,  in  brodestreat.  28  March.  1600 

yo^*  to  comaund  assuredly 
Rob;  Bouth. 


Addressed:  To  the  right  wor'^  his  approved  good  frend  M'  I> 
Clayton  master  of  St:  Johns  CoUedge  in  Cambridg 
these. 

Sir  we  came  to  Londo  in  reasoable  tyme  on  tweusday  to  haue 
entred  vppo  o'  busines,  but  I  had  so  foule  a  fall  by  a  stubling 
iade  by  y«  way  y*  I  escaped  well  y*  I  was  not  spoyled  havinge 
y«  hackney  horse  fallinge  vppo  me:  w<^  gave  y«  occasio  to 
the  of  y«  start  of  vs.  Early  vppo  wedensday  (after  sume 
litle  speeche  w**»  Mr  Boothe)  we  addressed  vs  to  y«  deane, 
who  we  founde  much  moved,  &  answeringe  peremptorily,  in 
most  earnest  speaches,  not  muche  wanting  to  y«  highest 
resolutio:  after  suine  large  coference,  he  would  needes  w*^ 
vs  in  all  hast  to  Lambethe,  his  grace  we  found  wholly 
possessed  of  y«  cause  &  p^^occupated  by  p^vention  but  not 
for  vs:  Mr  Morrell  had  bene  w'^*  him  but  as  his  grace  said 
spoke  not  a  word  of  y*  matter.  It  fell  owt  well  y*  ther  Ires  to 
yo^^self  &  vs  were  answered  in  writtinge  for  it  was  expected ; 
&  y«  former  retume  of  answer  to  the  deane  by  Mr  Morrell,  by 
who  it  was  done  by  worde  of  mouthe  by  him  (as  he  signifyed) 
muche  mislyked.  It  appeared  by  my  lords  boathe  persuading© 
in  y«  cause,  &  his  threateninge  the  eflfectinge  of  the  enclosure, 
by  sume  superiour  meanes  (if  we  would  not  willingely  accorde) 
y*  his  grace  is  wholly  theires;  y®  matter  we  debated  a  good 
longe  tyme,  &  discussed  matters  togeath',  his  gr.,  y«  deane, 
myself  &  Mr.  Brig  in  y«  gallery;  o'  allegations  were  our 
Statute,  2^  their  opposinge  by  this  cause  themselves  &  y^  towne 


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(agreeing  vppo  private  respectes  of  petty  comodities  other  tq 
other)  not  only  to  vs,  but  to  y«,  rest  of  y«  vniversity,  who 
had  in  former  tyme  had  great  differences  w*^  ye  towne  who 
should  have  the  p'eminece  in  beinge  lords  of  y«  soyle,  w<=^  by 
this  their  copositid  &  maiier  of  procedinge  they  had  yelded  to  y« 
towne,  to  the  vniversityes  p^^iudice  &  y«  townes  encoragement, 
the  first  y'  we  opposed  caused  sume  stay,  the  seconde  stuge  not 
a  litle :  a  thirde  we  had  of  y«  manifolde  annoyances,  &  their 
slender  regard  y*  y«*  made  of  o'  coset  not  before  to  seek  it 
that  we  had  give  them  occasio  by  manifestinge  o'  grievance, 
&  signified  a  purpose  to  crosse  their  course,  if  we  were 
vnreasoably  dielt  w**»all.  His  grace,  for  y«  time  seemed  to 
make  light  of  all  we  could  say,  &  said  o'  colledges  oppositio 
in  this  case  came  rather  of  stomacke  tha  any  good  grownde : 
yet  we  escaped  w*^  owt  any  great  chyding,  thoughe  we  did  not 
much  forbeare  o'  spare  Mr  deane,  so  farr  as  o'  cause  ministred 
vs  matter  in  so  muche  as  it  seemed  his  coller  was  not  more 
kinled  this  good  whyle:  tyme  will  not  give  leave  to  touch 
y«  particulars  thoughe  in  deede  o'  coinge  vp  in  this  sort  & 
^Uegatios  w^^  he  never  dreamed  of,  especially  y«  two  first, 
the  one  staying  vs  fo'  yelding  &  making  against  the  (if 
y^  haue  y«  lyke  statute  as  in  course  of  speeche  was  by 
vnadvysednes  cast  owt)  in  exchanging  land  w*^  y«  towne,  & 
alienating  that  w^^  is  y®  colledges,  thother  touched  him  nerely, 
&  affected  my  lordes  gr.,  who  seemed  much  to  mislyke  yt  any 
way  y®  towne  should  be  any  waies  intytuled  by  this  actio 
to  be  lordes  of  y«  soile  &  wished  Mr  deane  to  provyde 
against  it.  For  o'  statute  whylst  we  vrged  it  in  wordes 
exeplyinge  y«  interp»"tatio  of  it  to  make  for  o'  plea,  by 
former  practise  in  Cottnams  matter,  and  other  particulars, 
nothinge  swayed  w^  his  gr :  alwaies  he  alledged  dissimilitudes 
in  y^  cases,  where  indeede  we  could  see  none,  &  so  replyed ; 
&  further  desyred  for  future  o^  discharge  of  oath  &  to  answer 
all  chalenges  in  tyme  to  come,  we  might  haue  it  vnder  his 
graces  hand  for  o'  better  satisfactio  y^  in  suche  cases  of 
comos  we  were  loosed  fro  all  bound  of  oath  taken  to  y* 
statute  w^^  her  maiesty  by  his  grace  and  others  had 
lately  give  vnto  vs;  where  was  said  by  vs  y^  by  y«  helpe 
of  y^  his  graces  interpretatio,  by  Cotna,  &  sume  thinges  els, 
we  should  herafter  recopence  o'  losse  received  by  Trinityes 
inclosure  by  such  liberty  as  should  be  lost  vs  in  this  point 


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of  o^  statute.  Here  his  gr  paused  &  made  a  stay  answeringe 
yt  he  vsed  not  to  determyne  hasteley  but  after  muche  speeche 
too  &  froo  &  in  end  after  we  had  brought  forth  y«  statute 
booke  it  self  (w<^^  his  grace  looked  not  for,  &  y«  deane  did 
not  ounce  imagin  we  would  have  stoode  vppo,  or  had  any 
suche  defence  for  o*^  denyall)  we  pressing  y«  wordes  for 
o*^  selves  namely  these  generalls,  terras^  solu,  pascua,  pasiuras^ 
frata,  bona  immobilia^  thoughe  the  deane  had  in  former  talke 
termed  it  pasture  yet  it  would  not  be  yelded  y'  their  case 
fell  into,  or  w*^  in  y«  compasse  of  this  statute.  My  lords 
opinio  was  y«  mynd  of  y®  law  was  not  as  he  thought  to  be 
extended  to  commons,  but  would  not  averr  it  of  himself  or 
defyne  till  he  had  the  advyse  of  lawers  for  y*  clause,  &  there 
vppo  wished  o'  stay  in  towne  till  y*  might  be  done,  but  first 
lesse  we  should  haue  produced  a  counterfeit  copy,  he  fetched 
o'  statutes  owt  of  his  studdy,  &  conferred  o'  and  y*  togeather 
w<^^  agreed  in  every  tytle.  We  lett  his  gr  see  in  his  gallery 
mapp  for  Cabridge  the  current  of  y®  river  course,  as  y«*  of 
Trinity  purposed  to  draw  it,  &  manifestly  shewed  (to  o'  sense) 
y®  incovenience  to  vs,  but  his  answer  was  y  deane  would  see 
y*  nether  in  y',  nor  other  respectes  we  should  be  encobred, 
&  y®  deane  spoke  well  and  said  all  should  be  to  his  gr.  lykinge : 
after  diner  we  were  thus  dismissed  (w<^^  seemed  sumew*  strange 
to  vs)  my  lords  gr.  ryse  as  we  had  thought  to  haue  gone  into 
sume  place  for  repose,  &  after  to  haue  harde  vs  further,  at  his 
•  pleasure,  spake  a  word  to  Mr  Deane  &  he  took  me  by  y«  hand 
straight  to  his  barge,  &  intended  to  transport  me  back  againe 
w'^  him  to  Londo;  (as  we  geathered  less  we  shoulde  haue 
serounded  o*^  Sute  to  his  gr)  but  a  shower  overtakinge  vs 
we  stayed  at  y®  gates  in  all  earnest  parley  more  the  half  an 
hower,  y®  deane,  doctour  Barlo  &  we,  of  o*"  matter  &  so  were 
brought  to  his  house,  &  their  spent  in  speech  nere  two 
bowers:  he  had  said  before  y*  if  y*  should  be  any  part  of 
coditio  to  haue  other  draine  the  o^  river  y*  runeth  aboute 
o'  colledge  close,  thereto  by  no  meanes  he  would  ever  agree, 
but  in  his  house  he  came  after  to  conferr  &  cosider  how  by 
drawing  a  plott  we  could  shew  w*  we  required,  vppo  occasio 
of  wordes  from  him  y'  he  would  not  haue  stoode  w*  o^  col- 
ledge for  a  farr  greater  matter  before  D*^  Barlo  (as  by  y«  way 
I  cast  owt)  ca  you  the  be  cotent  we  should  haue  a  pype  fro 
yo'  coduitt,  he  seemed  not  vppo  y*  suden  speache  by  reaso 


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of  his  larg  offer  of  curtesy  to  o'  colledge  before  in  words  to 
mislyke,  &  there  also  (as  talke  was  ofFred),  a  worde  fell  fro  me 
y'  we  would  look  for  sume  acknowledgm*  of  our  former  interest 
in  that  place  to  haue  for  perpetuity  if  it  were  but  vjd  yearely 
he  answered  if  it  were  vijd  they  would  not  shirke,  and  saide 
if  Y^  had  thought  vs  to  be  venall  as  y«  tooke  y®  towne  to  be, 
y«»  would  as  w^  the  haue  delt  by  money  &  given  vs  cosideratio, 
as  he  cofessed  they  should  do  to  y®  towne  more  the  you  heard 
of  before,  for  in  money  y«»  are  "to  give  Camb :  towne  as  him 
self  cofessed  before  his  gr:  fyfty  poundes;  at  his  house  at 
o'  drawinge  of  y«  forme  of  y«  ditch  in  his  window,  how  we  would 
haue  it  cotrived,  I  metioned  a  severall  one  w*^^  we  would  haue 
the  to  make,  &  leave  vs  a  balk  betwixt  their  ditch  and  o"  of 
xij  foote  broade,  &  a  little  he  seemed  to  relet  of  his  former 
resolutio,  &  cast  in  his  mynde  how  y^  might  be,  &  said  it 
should  be  indifferent  for  both  to  cast  o'  ditches  vppo,  whe 
there  was  clensinge  of  the  &  a  comon  walke,  but  fully  yelded 
not  to  the  motio,  againe  we  said  we  would  certainly  haue 
fro  the  &  y®  towne  that  it  should  put  in  o'  choise  so  muche 
as  lay  in  the,  y*  w*^  owt  gainsay  we  might  vse  in  severall 
y*  litle  plott  before  o'  gates,  &  we  would  haue  y*  laid  by 
y®  towne  for  vs  though  y«*»  rebated  so  muche  in  quatity  of 
that  ground  w<^^  y«»  should  allow  the  of  thother  side  of  Cab 
towards  Barnwell  because  y*  litle  would  be  more  worth  to  vs 
&  o'  tenats  the  all  y«  whole  of  the  other  in  y«  place  by  the 
assygned:  he  lyked  mervelouse  well  of  y*  thing  but  denyed 
to  solicit  y®  towne  for  vs,  but  offred  frankly  their  colledge 
consent  &  we  said  we  would  ether  make  y®  towne  yelde  if 
yo*  made  any  accout  of  y*  gaine  y®«  should  haue  fro  Trinity 
by  this  exchange  or  all  should  remaine  in  statu  g^.  But  for 
any  of  these  demaundes  or  others  whatsoever  whe  as  first 
we  had  seene  o'  maine  exceptios  take  away  &  all  principall 
points  of  dowts  cleared  w*^*^  yet  stand  in  o'  way,  we  would 
haue  the  made  but  yet  as  motions,  &  by  speaches  in.  way  of 
talk,  vppo  suppositio,  &  no  other  way;  but  y®  graund  letts 
removed  they  should  fynd  o'  colledge  reasonable,  &  to  be 
ruled  by  his  grace,  who  as  I  should  haue  said  before  redd 
yo'  Ire  &  kept  it  to  himself,  but  y®  seniours  he  redd  opely 
to  y®  Deane.  Mr.  Deane  said  before  his  gr.  y*  all  had  cosented 
but  we  &  named  Dr  Legg,  Trinity  Hall,  Merton  Colledge  &c. 
I  expected  I  had  heard  to  y®  cotrary  but  named  none,    yet 


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he  cofessed  y*  Doct.  Duport  had  not  behe  moved,  (but  thW 
was  after  we  had  been  at  Lamb.)  And  of  all  in  Cab.  Jesus 
Colledge  is  as  lykely  to  haue  a  lordship  by  Radigmid  as  any 
other.  y«  Deane  said  if  any  lord  o'  Colledge  proved  back- 
ward in  this  busines  it  was  by  o«^  procuremet,  or  by  meanes  of 
o*^  standing  in  y*,  for  y«  former  1  answered  no.  And  to  an 
allegatio  of  Dr  Nevyles  y*  he  took  it  more  y«  townes  right 
the  the  vniversities  for  y«  principall  lordship  of  y«  soile,  I 
reicmed  y^  other  heades,  &  diverse  of  th*  I  had  heard  of 
cotrary  iudgmet  in  a  case  of  settinge  of  willowes,  he  said  they 
should  give  him  leave  to  dissent,  I  replyed  as  not  thinkinge 
y*  mynde  so  much  to  favour  y«  vniversityes  priveledges  but 
y*  worde  was  not  well  take  of  y*  deane,  so  as  thereby,  & 
for  dealinge  in  this  cause  I  haue  lost  j^  deanes  love,  &  was 
charged  to  be  y®  man  most  to  make  this  sturr,  and  who  might 
quyet  it  all  if  I  would ;  he  said  it  was  tolde  him  y*  we  had 
immediatly  (vppo  y«  receipt)  answered  his  gr:  Ifs  negative, 
&  f-  we  had  brought  this  matter  to  the  cosistory  in  Cab: 
We  tould  him  bothe  were  vntruethes;  he  said  he  heard  you 
should  come  vppo  in  Easter  week  &  y^  Mr  Morrell  should 
tell  him  (as  he  taketh  it)  but  we  had  not  spoke  w^  Mr 
Morrell  whe  I  writt  these  thinges,  we  sought  him  all  abroad. 
After  vppo  thursday  vnderstandinge  y*  Mr  Morrell  was  owt  of 
y«  city  I  sent  one  vnto  him  &  he  marveled  muche  at  o'  cominge 
to  Londo  &  said  he  had  dispatched  y*  matter  before,  but  I  pray* 
god  both  you  &  we  all  can  come  to  any  reasoable  accorde: 
you  must  be  intreated  to  come  vpp,  if  by  any  meanes  it  may 
be,  for  we  perceave  my  lord  look^th  w**»  both  ^y^%  of  his  favour 
towards  the.  I  tould  y®  deane,  if  we  had  but  a  glympse  of 
his  countenance  in  this  case  we  were  so  cofident  in  o'  cause, 
yt  we  hoped  to  make  it  seeme  lawfuU  in  y^  hearinge  of  all 
y«  body  of  y*  counsell  If  yo'  self  can  not  possibly  come, 
send  vs  y«  burser  Mr  Bilingsley  w*^  instructios  (if  his  gr:  will 
needes  haue  it)  w^  we  shall  demaunde  &  stand  vppo  for 
cosideratio,  for  as  we  found  him  at  ye  first  he  is  that  way 
mynded:  I  pray  you  y®  burser  may  inquire  what  cosideratio 
Kinges  Colledge  giveth  y«  towne  for  their  inclosure  &  in  what 
tyme  y^  inclosure  was  made,  as  also  of  Mr  Balls  inclosure  if 
it  can  be  learned  how  y^  did  and  doth  stand  p^'sently  w**»  owt 
impeaching  of  y«  vniversityes  priviledge:  Thus  haue  you  a 
small  discourse  of  sume  part  of  o'  proceedinges  as  I  could 


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scrible  In  sume  hast  havinge  my  heade  trobled  w*'*  these 
bnsines,  beinge  so  hard  layed  too  y*  we  stand  in  neede  of 
yo*^  goode  helpe  &  so  we  are  not  w*^  owt  helpe  of  a  covenient 
issue,  if  god  will :  for  y««  are  I  take  it,  &  I  see  it  are  more 
troubled,  &  disquieted  at  j^  matt'  the  we.  The  lord  keep© 
yoD,  &  bless  vs  all:  And  so  I  take  my  leave. 

yo»  wor»p«:  to  vse  in  y«  lord 
Hbnry  Alvey* 


Addressed:  To  iny  verie  loving  frends  the  Mastet  atod  Seniors 
of  St  Johns  College  in  Cambridge. 

Saltm  in  Chro,  I  have  heard  of  Mr  Alvey  and  scnne  others 
of  your  Colledge^  what  the  poyntes  are,  where  vpon  yo"  seeme 
to  stand  as  yet  against  Trinitie  Colledge  in  their  moste  reason- 
able (in  myne  opinion)  and  necessarie  enterprize.  Wherevnto 
I  thought  good  to  write  vnto  yo'>  myne  aunswere  in  fewe  wordes. 
And  first  touching  yo'  statut  De  non  alienandis  Collegij  ierris  6*r. 
I  am  resolved  in  myne  owne  iudgment,  that  it  nothing  con- 
cemith  this  matter  in  question.  And  for  my  furder  confirmation 
therein,  I  haue  conferred  both  w^  Civilians  and  Common 
Lawyers  therein,  who  all  concurre  in  iudgment  w^  mee,  and 
are  whollie  of  this  mynd,  that  this  intended  inclosure  is 
no  way  w'^in  the  compasse  of  that  statute.  And  in  truthe, 
it  cannot  colourablie  or  otherwise  be  comprehended  in  anye 
one  worde,  nor  in  all  the  wordes  there  set  downe. 
Secondlie  touching  the  obiection  of  annoyance  that  may 
thereby  happen  to  yo'  Colledge.  I  doe  assure  yo^  that 
there  is  no  suche  meaning.  And  M'  Deane  hath  promised 
mee  to  take  care  that  yo^  shall  haue  no  iust  cause  to  com- 
playne  thereof.  Thirdlie  for  yo^  Tenaunts;  they  are  all  of 
that  nature;  that  I  am  sorie  to  think,  much  more  to  haue 
it  knowne,  there  should  bee  so  slender  frendlie  consideration 
and  litle  love  betweene  Colledges,  as  once  to  make  mention 
of  anye  of  them. 

Lastlie  concerning  the  preiudice  that  by  this  action  may  arise 
to  anye  title  or  clayme  the  Vniversitie  hath  or  may  haue 
to  the  Commons ;  I  haue  seene  so  manye  precedents  of  former 
grawntes  in  lyke  sorte  made  to  diverse  Colledges  in  Cambridge 
from  the  towne,  and  some  to  yo'  owne  Colledge;  that  I  am 
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out  of  doute»  there  can  be  no  preiudnce  therein.  And  therefore 
I  doe  once  agayne  hartilie  pray  yo",  and  as  a  frend  advise 
yo^  not  to  stand  any  longer  with  them  in  this  present  case; 
protesting  vnto  yo",  that  if  the  case  were  yo«^  owne,  I  wonld 
deale  as  eamestlie  and  effectuallye  w^  Trinitie  Colledge  for 
yo»*,  as  I  doe  now  w*^  yo'*  for  them. 

And  so  w*^  my  verie  hartie  commendacons  I  comitte  yo"  to 
the  tuicon  of  Almightie  God.  From  Lambeth  the  xzxj^  of 
March  1600 

yo'  verie  loving  frend 
Jo:  Cantuar: 

Addressed:  To  ye  right  wor" :  my  assured  frend  Mr  Dr  Claiton 
Mr  of  St  Johns  CoUedg  in  Cambridge  d*". 

S'  concerning  y«  matt'  now  in  questio  betweene  yo'  ov  thwart 
neighb"  &  yo**,  yo"  may  be  assured  of  very  good  frendes,  yf 
yo'*  be  fyrme  to  yo'  selves.  They  of  who  Mr  Alvey  was  by 
a  grave  father  willed  to  tell  yo",  y*  if  they  should  heare 
yt  yo"  stood  against  tl;iis  matter,  would  conceyve  oth'^ise  of 
yo'self,  then  would  stand  w*  yo'  good,  they  (I  say)  will  do 
yo**  right,  yf  they  shalbe  made  privy  to  y®  particulars  of 
y*  case  &  of  yo'  desyre.  Synce  the  CoUedg  hath  shewed 
itself  in  the  matt',  vnless  yo'*  may  have  our  courtesye  for 
anoth'  yo**  wilbe  much  condemned  of  yo'  best  frendes,  yf 
yo»  do  not  stand  out  to  y«  vttermost:  &  they  may  do  litle 
for  yo"  y*  cannot  fynde  in  y®""  hartes  to  allowe  yo«  thejrr  wast 
wat':  make  oth'  demaundes  besides  y*  of  a  pype  fro  theyrs, 
but  nev  yeHd  to  the  vnless  they  grawnt  yo'*  this  pype  simply 
to  ronne  at  all  tymes  w^out  limitacon  of  tyme  vnless  they  shall 
want  wat'.  let  me  have  knowledg  y^  I  may  informe  yo«"  frendes 
when  &  how  yo'*  answ'  his  Graces  Ire  now  sent  or  to  be  sent 
by  Mr  Morrell  about  this  matt'.  Whatsoev  shew  is  made  I 
doubt  not  but  yo"  will  perceyve  the  shortlye  to  quaile,  vnless 
yo«  begynne  to  quaile  afore  the.  yf  yo«  fynde  cause  by  theyr 
holding  out  against  yo"  an  epistle  fro  yo'  Coll :  to  Mr  Secretary 
will  do  well  who  yo**  may. account  of  yo'  Coll:  for  so  he 
accowntes  himself,  making  therein  yo'  case  &  desyre  playne,  & 
desyre  him  to  succeede  his  ho^o  father  in  protecting  yo".  in 
standing  out  yo«  may  procure  good  to  yo'  Coll :  abate  yo' 
adv'saries  braves:  &  satisfye  good  frendes.  in  relenting  yo«  shall 
p'iudice  yo'  Coll :  drawe  on  new  wronges  &  discredit  yo'sdves 


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specially  w*  the  y*  love  yo"  best :  I  pray  yo"  lett  me  be  fro  tyme 
to  tyme  acquainted  w*  all  thinges  as  they  pass:  &  w*stand  the  by 
advyse  of  lawe  in  peaceable  &  lawfull  mann"^  only  &  not  too 
hastely.  Keep  this  Ire  to  yo^'self  &  be  assured  y*  I  write  vpp5 
bett'  groundes  then  it  is  fitt  now  to  signifye.  w*  most  harty 
coiiiendacons  I  rest 

tuus  totaliir 
Rob:  Bouth 

Yo«  may  take  occasion  to  seeke  vnto  Mr  Secretary  as  to  your 
Steward  of  y«  whole  body  of  the  vniv^sity  or  rather  as  to  one  on 
who  yo'  Colledg  dependes  wholly.  Let  none  see  this  Ire  but 
burne  it:  &  send  me  a  note  of  yo'  particular  grievances  & 
disyres  &  the  reasons  of  bothe  so  as  I  may  shew  it  to  yo'  best 
frendes  who  wilbe  constant,  but  yo'>  must  not  boste  of  it 

Rob:  Bouth 
Addressed:  To  Dr  Clayton. 

S'  as  I  veryly  think,  yo'  adv^saries  have  now  done  theyr  vtter- 
most,  &  now  yo'  fVendes  begin ne  to  worke,  &  whatsoev  shew 
is  now'  made  I  hope  yo^  shall  see  a  chawnge  shortlie.  yf 
yo'  Colledg  relent  before  yo'  frendes  know  it  &  approve  it,  it 
wilbe  a  great  wrong  to  the  &  cannot  but  be  so  taken:  for 
they  are  resolved  to  stand  most  firmely  to  yo«.  We  send 
this  footma  to  yo"  w^  these  Irs  least  his  Graces  Ire  (wh  as 
I  heare  Mr  Morrell  hath)  should  too  much  aniate  yo°.  We 
expect  to  heare  oft  fro  yo'^  whiles  this  matt^  is  in  questio 
betweene  yo'  neighb"  &  yo**. 

This  bear'  is  sent  to  yo'^  &  willed  to  go  forward  to  such  place 
as  yo**  shall  appoint  him:  least  having  div  errantes  he 
should  omitt  to  deliv  to  yo«  w'  y*  speed  we  desyre.  I  pray 
yo"  therefore  appoint  him  to  go  forward  into  Norfolke  to  my 
sist'  Chippesby,  &  give  him  the  inclosed  Ire  herein,  w*  is 
directed  to  her  to  carry  her  &  to  bring  awnsw'  back  to  my 
Ladie  fro  her  &  the  rest  there.  And  so  in  hast  I  comitt 
yo*'  to  the  highest,    in  Londo  3°  Apr.  1600. 

Tuus  totaliir. 
Rob:  Bouth. 
my  Lo :  &  La :  salute  yo'*  very  kyndlye. 

Will  this  bearer  to  call  on  yo«  in  his  way  out  of  Norfolk  y*  we 
may  heare  fro  yo**  at  his  retorne  to  vs.  R :  Bo  : 


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Samubl  John  Nathanisi,  Grebntogb  B.A. 

Samuel  J.  N.  Greenidge,  son  of  the  Rev  N.  H.  Greenidge, 

was  bom  in  Barbados    on    September    27,    1862.     He  was 

educated  privately  bj  his  father  until  the  age  of  14,  when  he 

entered  Harrison  College,  where  he  gained  a  junior  scholar- 

ship  and  afterwards  a  sei^ior  scholarship.    In  September  1881 

he  competed  for  and  won  the  Barbados  Scholarship,  on  the 

Mathematical    branch,     and,     choosing    Cambridge    as   his 

University,  entered  St  John's  in  January   1885,   having  Dr 

Routh  as  his  private  tutor.    He  went  in  for  the  Mathematical 

Tripos  in    1886,    and  came    out  as    Twenty-fifth    Wrangler, 

Having  determined  on   becoming  a  practising  barrister,  he 

then  applied  himself   to  law,  ^nd  after   ten  months'  study 

obtained  a  second  class  in  the  Law  Tripos  of  1887.    At  the 

close  of  the  same  year  he  was  elected  to  the  MacMahon  Law 

Scholarship  which  he  continued  to  hold  up  to  the  time  of 

his  death.      During  the    last  three  years  of   his   coturse  at 

Cambridge  he  was    keeping  his  terms    at  Gray's  Inn,  and 

after  six  months'  reading  in  Chambers  with  Dr  Blake  Odgers, 

he  was  called  to  the  Bar  early  in  1889.    He  arrived  in  Barbados 

on  March   i   of  the  same  year,  and   was   admitted    to  the 

Barbados  Bar  a  few  weeks  afterwards.    He  died  on  Wednesday, 

September  3,    1890,  having  nearly  completed  his  28th  year. 

•'In  Mr  Greenidge,"  says  the  Barbados  Agricultural  Reporter^ 

'*  Barbados  has  lost  one  of  the  most  brilliant  of  the  many 

sons  who  have  done  her  hot^our  by  ability  and  perseverance 

either  at  home  or  abroad.    At  the  very  outset  of  his  career, 

when  his  influence  was  about  to  be  felt,  he  died,  and  the 

loss  is  a  most  deplorable  one  to  the  country.    Highly  educated 

and  deeply  read,  he  was  one  who  as  years  passed  on  would 

have  done  much  to    improve  and  raise  the  tone  of  those 

about   him,   and  to  set  men  of  this  country  thinking   and 

doing.    Apart  from   academical  distinction   and   scholarship, 


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Mr  Greenidge  possessed  what  is  so  seldom  found  in  the 
present  day — a  quiet  and  modest  manner  together  with  the 
charm  of  frankness.  A  brilliant  talker  and  full  of  anecdote, 
he  was  everywhere  liked  and  sought  after;  yet  he  was 
always  the  same  amiable  and  delightful  companion.  Amongst 
his  own  immediate  friends  the  shock  of  his  death,  after 
only  a  few  days'  illness,  was  deeply  felt.'' 


Sir  James  Meek. 


Sir  James  Meek  died  on  January  lo,  at  Cheltenham,  aged 
75.  He  was  the  son  of  James  Meek,  of  Middlethorpe-lodge, 
York,  who  was  three  times  Lord  Mayor  of  that  city.  Sir 
James  also  thrice  held  this  office.  He  was  bom  at  York 
in  1815,  and  married,  first,  in  1839,  Hannah  Kettlewell,  of 
Marlborough,  and  a  second  time,  in  1845,  Eleanor  Smith, 
of  Scarborough.  He  was  entered  at  St  John's  College,  but 
left  the  University  without  a  degree,  to  become  a  partner 
in  his  father's  commercial  firms.  He  was  chairman  of  many 
north-country  companies,  and  a  magistrate  for  the  North 
and  West  Ridings,  as  well  as  Deputy-Lieutenant  for  the 
North  Riding. 


The  Rev  Canon  Molesworth  M.A. 

The  Rev  William  Nassau  Molesworth,  formerly  Vicar  of 
Rochdale,  an  Honorary  Canon  of  Manchester  Cathedral, 
who  died  at  Shawclough  in  December  1890,  seventy-four  years 
of  age,  was  known  as  author  of  several  good  books  on  English 
political  history,  as  a  consistent  Liberal,  and  as  a  promoter 
of  social  reforms  and  of  popular  education.  He  was  bom 
near  Southampton,  in  18 16,  son  of  a  clerg}'man,  and  was 
educated  at  the  King's  School,  Canterbury,  and  at  St  John's 
and  Pembroke  Colleges,  Cambridge,  taking  his  B.A.  degree 
in  1839,  and  that  of  M.A.  in  1842.  From  1841  to  1844  he 
was  incumbent  of  St  Andrew's,  Manchester,  and  held  the 
vicarage  of  St  Clement's,  Rochdale,  from  1844,  during  many 
years.  In  1857  ^®  wrote  an  essay  on  the  Religious  Importance 
of  Secular  Imiruction^  advocating   views  in  agreement    with 


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the  "Lancashire  Public  School  Association/'  which  was  the 
precursor  of  the  movement  finally  successful  in  the  Education 
Act  of  1870  for  ail  England.  He  also  published  a  series  of 
Plain  Lectures  on  Astronomy,  which  he  had  delivered  to  his 
own  people  at  Rochdale.  The  prize  for  the  best  essay  on 
the  importance  of  a  friendly  alliance  between  England  and 
France  was  awarded,  in  i860,  by  the  referees,  Lord  Brougham, 
Lord  Clarendon,  and  Lord  Shaftesbury,  to  this  Liberal 
clergyman,  who  thereupon  undertook  a  work  of  standard 
value,  A  History  of  the  Reform  Bill  of  1832,  published  in  1864. ; 
and  this  was  followed,  or  rather  extended  and  continued,  by 
the  History  of  England  from  the  Year  1830,  in  three  volumes, 
which  appeared  from  1871  to  1873,  and  which  still  remains 
the  best  work  on  its  subject.  An  abridged  edition,  in  one 
volume,  was  published  in  1877.  Canon  Molesworth  also  wrote 
a  treatise  on  A  New  System  of  Moral  Philosophy,  and  a  History 
4>f  the  Church  of  England  from  the  year  1 660. 


The  Rev  John  Howard  Marsden  B.D. 

Mr  Marsden,  a  former  Fellow  of  the  College,  who  died  at 
his  residence.  Grey  Friars,  Colchester,  on  January  24,  in  his 
88th  year,  was  the  son  of  the  Rev  William  Marsden  B.D. 
Vicar  of  Eccles,  Lancashire.  He  took  his  B.A.  degree  in 
1826  as  Senior  Optime  and  ninth  Classic,  and  gained  the 
first  Bell  Scholarship  in  1823  and  the  Seatonian  Prize  in  1829. 
He  was  Select  Preacher  in  1834,  1837,  ^^^  '^47  J  Hulsean 
Lecturer  in  1843-44;  and  Disney  Professor  of  Archaeology 
from  1851  to  1865.  He  was  presented  by  the  College  to 
the  Rectory  of  Oakley  Magna  in  Essex  in  the  year  1840,  and 
held  it  till  1889  when  he  resigned.  From  1858  to  1874  he 
was  Canon  of  Manchester.  He  was  devoted  to  literary  and 
archaeological  research,  and  published  two  volumes  of  Hulsean 
Lectures;  Life  of  Sir  Simon  d^  Ewes,  or  College  Life  in  the 
time  of  fames  I;  Introductory  Lectures  to  the  study  of  Archaeology  ; 
and  Philomorus,  a  brief  Examination  of  the  Latin  Poems  of 
Sir  Thomas  More, 


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The  following  members  of  the  College  have  died  during 

the  year  1890 ;   the  year  in  brackets  is  that  of  the  B.A.  degree. 

Rey  Edmund  Albert  Alderson  (1863),  Chaplain  of  the  Forces :  died  January 
28,  in  Malta. 

George  Marmaduke  Alington  (1820),  Deputy-Iientenant  for  Lincolnshire: 
died  February  18,  at  Swinhope  House,  Lincolnshire. 

Rev  William  Allen  (1871) :  died  May  2,  at  Roffeyhurst,  Horsham,  aged  45. 

Rev  Thomas  Alston  (1873),  Vicar  of  East  Crompton,  Oldham :  died  July  28. 

Rev  George  Babb  {1843),  J.P.  for  Lindsey,  formerly  Scholar,  Rector  of 
Asterby,  Homcastle:   died  March  15,  at  the  Rectory,  aged  69. 

Rev  Richard  a'  Court  Beadon  (1832),  formerly  Vicar  of  Cheddar,  and  of 
Wiveliscombe,  Prebendary  of  WeUs :  died  November  30,  at  Heronslade, 
Warminster,  aged  81. 

Rev  Arthur  Beard  (1855),  Rector  of  Great  Grecnford,  Southall :  died  August 
3,  at  the  Rectory,  aged  66  (see  Eagle  xvi,  381). 

Rev  George  Bright  Bennett  (1853),  Rector  of  St  Peter  and  St  Owen, 
Herefoid :   cUed  February  25,  at  the  Vicarage,  aged  59. 

Rev  Philip  Utton  Brown  (1836),  formerly  Vicar  of  Ulingham :  died  January 
I,  at  Downlands,  Lymington,  aged  77. 

Rev  William  BuckeU  (1863],  Curate  of  St  Paul's,  Brighton  :  died  August  2, 

at  Brighton. 
Wathen  Mark  Wilks  Call  (1843) :  died  August  20  (see  EagU  xvi,  383). 

t^illlam  Calvert  (1881),  of  Walton  le  Dale,  Governor  of  Rivington  School: 
died  September  7. 

Rev  James  Henchman  Clubbe  (1842),  Rector  of  BexweU,  Norfolk :  died 
April  18,  at  the  Rectory,  aged  71. 

Rev  Thomas  CoUyer  (1823),  Rector  of  Gislingham,  Suffolk:  died  May  2, 
at  the  Rectory,  aged  91. 

Theodore  Coppock  (1881),  Barrister-at-Law :  drowned  in  Norway,  Augnst 
26  (see  Eagle  XVI,  383). 

Rev  John  Creeser  (1864),  Head-Master  of  Bootle  College,  Liverpool:  died 
December  27,  at  Oundle,  aged  48. 

Rev  William  Cufaude  Davie  (1844),  formerly  Assistant-Master  at  Eton,  and 
Head  Master  of  Yarmouth  Grammar  School,  Rector  of  Oby,  Great 
Yarmouth:   died  March  12,  at  the  Rectory,  aged  67. 

Rev  John  Davies  (1842) :  died  September  18  (see  Eagle  xvi,  382). 

Rev  Charles  Christopher  Thomas  Fagan  (1870),  Chaplain  at  Tangier :  died 
January  20,  at  Tangier. 

Rev  John  Frederick  Falwasser  (1854),  Vicar  of  Privett,  Hants,  Diocesan 
Inspector  of  Schools,  Winchester :  died  March  6. 

Rev  Edward  Fearon  BurreU  Bonrke  Fellowes  (1831),  for  45  years  Vicar  of 
Kilham,  Hull :  died  January  16,  at  Kelvedon,  Essex,  aged  85. 

Rev  Dudley  Thomas  Bousquet  Field  (1887),  Curate  of  Haslingden,  Lancashire : 
died  September  30,  aged  25. 

Rev  Richard  Davies  Glasspoole  (1855),  formerly  Vicar  of  Holmer,  Hereford  : 
died  May  7,  at  Leamington. 

Rev  Thomas  Grabham  (1854) :  died  February  10. 

Samuel  John  Nathaniel  Wilberforce  Greenidge  (1886),  Barrister-at-I^w, 
MacMahon  Law  Student :  died  September  3,  at  Strathclyde,  Barbados, 
aged  28  (see  Eagle  XVI,  476). 


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48o  Obituary. 

Rev  Frederic  Edward  Gretton  {1826),  formerly  FeUow,  Rector  df  Oddington, 
Gloucester  :  died  March  27,  aged  86  (see  Eagle  xvi,  277). 

Rev  Edward  Moule  Griffith  (1879)  o^  the  Church  Missionaiy  Society  :  died 
March  26,  at  Nellore,  Jaffna,  Ceylon. 

George  Heniy  (1872) :  died  January  28,  aged  47. 

Re?  Thomas  Heycock  (1854),  Rector  of  Seatota,  Rutland :  died  December 
21,  at  Seaton,  aged  59. 

Robert  Heniy  John  Heygate  (1852),  J.F.  for  Hereford  and  Essex:  died 
January  7,  at  Oakland,  Leominster. 

Re?  George  Alexander  Holdsworth  {1851),  late  Curate  of  Stonehoose^ 
Gloucester:  died  September  z»  at  Perth,  aged  65. 

Francis  Herbert  Holmes  (entered  1889):  died  January  26,  at  Cambridge^ 
aged  19  (see  Eagle  xvi,  176). 

Rev  Richard  Hull  (1842),  Rector  of  Upper  Stondon,  Sheffbrd:  died  May 
12,  aged  71. 

Rev  William  Wheeler  Hume  (1828),  Perpetual  Curate  of  St  Mary  Mag- 
dalene, St  Leonard's :  died  Mardi  25,  aged  88. 

Rev  Benjamin  Corke  Huntly  (1865),  Head-Master  of  Hutton  Grammar 
School,  Preston,  formerly  Assistant-Master  at  Didwich  College :  died 
May  9. 

Rev  John  Jarratt  (1822),  formerly  Scholar,  ^car  of  North  Cave,  and  Canon 
of  York :  died  November  30,  aged  91. 

Rev  Sampson  Kingsford  (1848),  Vicar  of  Hilary,  Cornwall,  fonaerly  Fellow: 
died  July  26,  at  Okehampton,  aged  65. 

Rev  William  Lees  (1831),  formerly  Vicar  of  Norley,  and  Incumbent  of  St 
Peter's,  Oldham :  died  January  i,  at  Frodsham,  aged  83. 

James  Lozdale  (1820),  J.P.  and  Deputy- Lieutenant  for  the  counties  of  Salop, 
Stafford,  and  Cardigan,  and  High  Sheriff*  1867,  Barrister-at-Law :  died 
December  28,  at  Llanila,  aged  94. 

Rev  William  Nassau  Molesworth  (1839),  Hon  Canon  of  Manchester :  died 
"7  //  December  19,  aged  7^  (see  Eagle  xvi,  477). 

Rev  Henry  Niven  ( 1 83 7)^ Vicar  of  Bishampton,  Peishore:  died  May  16, 
aged  76. 

Rev  William  Leeman  Pendered  (1846),  formerlv  Vicar  of  Ennerdale,  Cum- 
berland, and  Head- Master  of  Haydon  Bridge  Grtammar  School:  died 
December  i,  at  Grasse,  France,  aged  67. 

Rev  Richard  William  Pierpoint  (1837),  formerly  Perpetual  Curate  of  Holy 
Trinity,  Eastbourne,  1847  to  1878:  died  April  22,  at  St  Leonard's, 
aged  79. 

Rev  Alfred  Staff  Prior  (B.D.  1867),  Vicar  of  North  Frodingham,  Hull :  died 
May  3,  at  the  Vicarage,  aged  63. 

Henry  Ripley  (1833) :  died  Februaiy  9,  at  Hilcote  Hall. 

Rev  William  Pender  Roberts  (1846),  formerly  Rector  of  Trevalga,  Cornwall: 
died  December  7,  at  Caermarthen. 

Rev.  William  Lancelot  Rolleston  (1840),  Vicar  of  Scraptoft,  Leicester :  died 
in  June. 

Charles  Henry  Martyn  Sanders  (1884) :  died  April  24. 

The  Rt  Hon  Sir  John  Robert  Townsend,  third  Viscount  and  first  Earl  of 
Sydney,  (M.A.  1824),  G.C.B.,  Lord  Steward  of  the  Queen's  Household, 
Lord-Lieutenant  of  Kent,  Captain  of  Deal  Castle :  died  February  14,  at 
Frognal  {.Eagle  xvi,  174). 


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Alfred  Walker  Simpson  (1846),  Fellow  of  Jesus,  Barrister-at-Law  of  the 
Inner  Temple,  and  Recorder  of  Scarborough.  His  name  appears  on 
our  lists  in  the  University  Calendars  of  1842,  1843,  but  he  took  his  degree 
from  Jesus.    Died  at  Scarborough,  April  5,  aged  66. 

Robert  West  Taylor  (i860),  formerly  Fellow,  and  Head-Master  of  Kelly 
College,  Tavistock:   died  August  16. 

Rev  Gervase  Thorp  (1874),  formerly  Curate  of  St  Margaret's,  Ipswich:  died 
April  2o,  at  Ipswich. 

Rev  Charles  Tower  (1837),  Canon  and  Prebendary  of  Salisbury:  died  June 
li,  at  Bathford,  Bath,  aged  75  (see  Eagle  xvi,  381). 

Rev  Charles  Turner  (1833),  1^*^  Rector  of  Framlingham-Earl,  Norfolk :  died 
November  9,  at  Kensington,  aged  79. 

Rev  Charles  James  Waterhouse  (1851),  late  Senior  Chaplain  Calcutta 
Ecclesiastical  Establishment :  died  January  19,  at  Edinburgh,  aged  63. 

Allan  Grranger  Wills  (1884)  :  died  January  17,  at  Sydney,  aged  26. 

William  Wynne  (1829) :  died  August  20,  at  Margate,  aged  85. 

Rev  Charles  Allix  Yate  (1845),  Rector  of  Uppingham,  Rutland:  died 
March  31,  at  the  Rectory,  aged  67. 

Rev  George  Robert  Youngman  (1881),  Rector  of  St  John's,  Manchester: 
died  May  26,  at  Bury  St  Edmund's,  aged  31. 


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CHANSONNETTE. 

When  Love  was  all  we  cared  to  kno^ 
Little  we  reck'd  of  wind  or  weather 
Hand  in  hand  we  roved  together 
Wherever  we  heard  the  voices  ca 
Fortune  the  fickle  might  prove  our  fo< 
Clouding  the  sky,  or  blighting  the 
Changing  gay  bowers  to  famine-tow 
Yet  Love  was  all — 
And  Love  was  ours. 

When  Love,  estranged,  no  more  we  I 
Folly  it  were  for  me  to  linger; 
Welcome  be  sign  from  Death's  forel 
Pointing  the  way  where  icicles  fa] 
Mutely  guiding,  and  bidding  me  go. 
Since  Fortune  lours,  and  sweetness 
No  spring-time  showers  revive  dead 
Still  we  recall — 
*Love  once  was  ours!' 

J.  W.  Ee 


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THE  INNER  LIFE. 

When  the  quiet  hush  of  night  has  fallen  found  us, 

And  we  lose  the  false  excitement  of  the  day, 
With  the  idle  occupations  that  had  bound  us, 

All  the  worthless  cares  that  mildew  Life's  decay—- 
Without  efiFort,  without  sigh,  or  thrill  of  anguish, 

Though  a  ghostly  chill  may  hint  the  blood  turns  cold. 
We  go  wandering  into  Dreamland,  not  to  languish. 

Hearing  music  from  the  lovelier  days  of  old. 

Fade  awhile  the  silly  triumphs  and  successes, 

Stript  of  splendour,  void  of  comfort,  shorn  of  joy ; 
Then  we  feel  once  more  the  long-forgone  caresses. 

That  were  better  far  than  wealth  to  girl  and  boy. 
Tread  we  silently,  half-dazed  amid  our  fancies. 

Dusky  labyrinths,  or  harvest  fields  of  gold ; 
Live  anew  the  truer  life  of  youth's  romances ; 

See  the  unblighted  possibilities  of  old. 

They  who  choose  may  feebly  mock  our  fond  persistence, 

Slipping  back  to  trodden  pathways,  year  by  year; 
Weaving  doubly  two  distinct  webs  of  existence. 

Shunning  madness  or  the  Cynic's  withering  sneer: 
Tribute  paid,  while  social  tyranny  can  bind  us — 

False  conventions  claiming  victims,  bought  or  sold : 
But  at  close  of  eve  one  hour  is  sure  to  find  us. 

Freely  roving  through  the  undying  Days  of  Old. 

J.  W.  Ebsworth. 

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SONNETS. 

Come,  tell  me  why  thy  voice  is  heard  no  more, 
Thou,  once  more  blithesome  than  the  lark  of  Spring ; 
Not  long  it  is,  since  thou  wouldst  ever  sing 

Amid  the  woods,  or  on  the  pebbly  shore. 

Why  lies  thy  lute  neglected  on  the  floor. 
When  once,  beneath  thy  finger's  touch  its  string 
Would,  with  the  thrilling  notes,  our  neighbours  bring 

In  rapturous  listening,  to  their  opened  door? 

Why  are  thy  eyes  so  often  dimmed  with  tears. 
Why  dost  thou  sigh,  and  look  so  sad  withal. 
As  if  for  thee.  Life's  cup  were  bitterest  gall ; 

Or  that  the  burden  of  an  old  man's  years. 
Each  one  regretted,  as  a  sad  ioo-late^ 
Had  crushed  the  spirit  with  its  cruel  weight? 

O.  M.  W. 


How  strange,  the  yearning  that  oft  fills  the  breast. 
When,  from  the  sky  the  day's  light  slowly  fades. 
And  weirdly  clustering,  the  evening  shades 

A  heavy  sadness  on  the  heart  have  pressed. 

Is  it  a  longing  for  that  peaceful  rest 

Not  known  to  Earth,  where  feverish  strife  pervades  ? 
Is  it  the  voice  of  Conscience,  which  upbraids. 

And  seeks  to  urge  us  on  the  path  that's  blessed? 

'Tis  not  for  me,  that  only  know  I  feel 
The  inward  working  of  some  subtle  spell. 
So  that  at  times  'twould  seem  a  warning  knell 

Sounds  through  my  soul,  as  from  no  earthly  peal; 

'Tis  not  for  me,  such  mystery  to  reveal — 
Perchance,  the  knowledge  might  the  charm  dispel. 

O.  M.  W. 


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JAFFAR. 
From  the  Russian  of  Turgenteff. 

An  hour  in  Bagdad,  and  not  know  of  JafiFar, 

The  Star,  the  Sun,  of  all  the  Universe ! 

Well,  you  shall  hear  the  tale.     Long  years  ago, 

A  stripling,  he  was  strolling  'yond  the  walls 

When  suddenly  a  hoarse  despairing  cry 

For  succour  I  rescue  I  smote  upon  his  ear. 

Now  JafiFar  was  a  cautious  youth  and  heedful, 

But  yet  his  heart  was  feeling,  and  he  knew 

His  arm  was  trusty.     Speeding  to  the  cry. 

He  saw  a  frail  old  man  thrust  by  a  pair 

Of  sturdy  rufi&ans  hard  against  the  wall. 

Who  rifled  at  his  girdle.    JafiFar  drew 

And  fell  upon  the  robbers ;   one  he  killed. 

The  other  fled.     The  greybeard  straightway  fell 

At  Jaffiar's  feet,  and  kissed  his  caftan's  hem ; 

And  said :  Brave  youthy  thy  courage  shall  have  meed. 

A  beggar  I  to  outward  seeming^  yet 

Thus  onlyy  being  other  than  I  seem. 

Come  to  the  market-place  at  earliest  dawn. 

I  will  await  thee  at  the  fountain :  there 

Thou  soon  shall  prove  the  truth  of  what  I  say. 

Then  Jaffiar  thought:   A  beggar  sure  he  seems^ 

Yet  nothing  is  impossible :  Til  venture; 

And,  Good  my  father ^  I  will  conie^  he  said. 

The  old  man  gazed  at  him  awhile,  and  parted. 

Next  morning  JafiFar,  ere  it  yet  had  dawned. 

Betook  him  to  the  market-place,  and  lo ! 

The  greybeard  leaning  on  the  fountain's  brim. 

Without  a  word  he  took  the  stripling's  hand. 

And  led  him  to  a  little  garden  plot 

High-walled  on  every  side :  and  in  the  midst. 

From  out  a  grassy  bed,  grew  up  a  tree 

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486  Jaffar. 

But  then  its  leaves  were  blue:   and  on  the  slim 

Upbending  branches  hung  three  apples.    One 

Of  middle  size,  but  long,  with  milk-white  rind; 

The  second,  large  and  round,  and  rosy  red ; 

The  third  was  small  and  yellow,  and  its  skin 

Was  shrunken.    Through  the  tree  a  rustling  sound 

Passed  gently,  though  no  breeze  was  felt  astir — 

A  wistful  sound,  as  when  a  slender  glass 

Is  softly  breathed  on — thus  as  Jaffar  deemed 

The  tree  was  witting  of  his  presence.     Youths 

The  old  man  said,  Of  these  three  apples  one 

Pluck  at  thy  choice;  but  know  that  if  the  white 

Thou  eatest^  thou  shall  be  as  Solomony 

Wisest  of  all  men.    If  the  red  thou  pluck* st^ 

When  thou  hast  eaten  it  thou  shall  be  rich 

As  the  Jew  Rothschild  is.    But  if  the  yellow^ 

2  hen  shall  thou  please  old  women.    Dally  noty 

But  choosey  for  in  an  hour  the  fruits  will  fade^ 

And  the  tree  sink  into  the  earth  again. 

JaflFar,  with  downcast  head,  mused  thus  awhile. 

And  counselled  with  himself:    What  shall  I  choose? 

If  I  should  grow  too  wise^  I  might  lose  zest 

For  life  itself ;  if  richer  than  my  fellows^ 

I  should  but  feel  their  envy ;   it  were  best 

To  pluck  and  eat  the  withered  fruit.    He  plucked 

And  ate.    The  old  man  laughed  with  toothless  jaws : 

O  wisest  of  young  men  I  thy  choice  is  best. 

Thou  need^st  no  milk-white  apphy  for  ^en  rum 

Thy  wisdom  passes  Solomon's ;  the  red 

Thou  need'st  noty  for  thou  wilt  be  rich  without  it^ 

And  in  thy  riches  thou  wilt  not  be  envied. 

Tell  mCy  old  many  the  joyful  JafiFar  cried. 

Where  dwells  our  Caliph's  venerable  mother? 

The  wizard  bowed  in  deepest  reverence, 

And  signed  the  youth  the  way  unto  the  palace. 

Who  now  in  Bagdad  knows  not  mighty  Jaffar, 
The  Star,  the  Sun,  of  all  the  Universe? 


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CORRESPONDENCE. 

To  the  Editors  of  the    'Eagle.' 

S.J.C.  Musical  Society. 
Gentlemen, 

May  I  suggest  that  a  history  of  the  College  Musical 
Society  would  be  of  great  interest  to  many  of  your  readers  ? 

If  the  Secretary  of  the  Society  would  contribute  an  article 
or  a  series  of  articles  in  the  Eagle^  giving  such  a  history  from 
its  formation  to  the  present  time,  he  would  be  following  in  a 
measure  the  good  lead  of  the  boating  men  in  publishing  a 
record  of  the  L.M.B.C. 

I  apprehend  that  the  written  sources  of  information  are 
scanty,  but  doubtless  Dr  Garrett  would  be  as  willing  as  he 
is  able  to  supply  matter  of  great  interest  which  would  render 
such  a  history  tolerably  complete. 

I  am,  Gentlemen, 

Yours  truly,    ' 

One  interested. 


The  Portraits  of  Bishop  Fisher. 

[We  are  requested  to  publish  the  following  Addenda  &c. 
with  reference  to  the  article  in  the  last  number  of  the  Eagle"], 

n.  4.  (p.  326)  In  the  Faubourg  S.  Jacques.  At  the  French  Revolution  the 
community  of  St  Edmund  in  Paris  was  dispersed,  and  was  unable  to  remove 
anything  beyond  what  could  be  carried  about  the  person.  By  the  intervention 
of  the  English  Government,  after  the  restoration  of  the  Bourbons,  some  of 
the  property  was  recovered.  The  house  in  Paris  was  taken  over  and  let, 
and  still  belongs  to  the  Benedictines.  No  trace  of  the  picture  can  be 
discovered.  (Information  supplied  by  the  Rt  Rev  Abbot  Snow  O.S.B., 
of  Liverpool.) 

Is  it  at  the  Louvre  ?    There  is  one  of  Sir  Thomas  More. 

m.  7.    For  *•  Patrick  "  read  "  Puttick." 


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488  Correspondence. 

III.  II.  Seated  figure,  |  length,  full  face  to  left.  In  white 
rochet  reaching  below  the  knees  with  lace.  The  fur  almuce 
reaching  to  the  feet.  Doctor's  cap.  Hands  clasped  in  prayer- 
Chair  to  right,  straight-backed  with  arms,  red  velvet,  brass 
nails  and  gold  fringe ;  on  left,  table  with  red  cloth  fringed,  on 
which  is  a  crucifix,  with  bone  and  skull  at  foot,  and  in  front 
of  it  an  open  book  with  the  inscription:  ^' Joan,  Cap,  15  (red). 
Haec  est  auiem  uita  aiema  ut  cognoscant  te  solum  Deum  uerum  et 
quern  misisti  lesum  ChristumP  Over  Bp  Fisher's  head,  to 
right,  a  green  canopy  with  gold  fringe.  In  the  left  top  comer 
of  the  picture  a  Bishop's  hat  with  three  rows  of  tassels,  printed 
in  red. 

III.  I  la.  Copy  in  oil,  on  canvass  56  in  x  58  in.  In  the 
possession  of  His  Eminence  Cardinal  Manning,  at  Westminster 
(Large  Reception  Room). 

Made  circa  1875. 

III.  12^.    For  "  1577  "  read  "  1572." 
„  "to  left"  „  "to  right." 

III.  12A.       „     "6i'»       „      "7" 
Add,  "to  left." 

ni.  15.      For  "  MDXXXVI "  read  "  MDXXXV." 

Thomas   Greenwood  {Eagle  xvi,  p.  340). 

The  second  * Johnian  Martyr'  was  Dr  Thomas  Greenwood, 
elected  Fellow  on  29  July  1516  {Baker-Mayor,  i.  281,  1.  11), 
commonly  called  Dom  Thomas  Green,  now  Blessed  Thomas 
Green,  who  died  in  Newgate,  10  June  1537. 

"See  77ie  London  Charterhouse,  its  monks  and  marytrs,  by  Dom 
Lawrence  Hendriks  (Lond.,  Kegan  Paul,  1889,  pp.  223,  227,  228) ;  and  Rev 
T.  E.  Bridgett's  Appendix  to  the  second  edition  of  his  Life  o/B.  John  Fisher^ 
who  quotes  (Arundel  152,  fol.  286)  a  letter  from  one  who  knew  the  martyr 
and  says  he  was  D.D.  in  1832.  Cooper  in  Athence  Cantab,  (vol.  i.,  p.  64) 
was  not  aware  that  this  Martyr  was  a  Carthusian."  (Letter  frpm  Rev 
J.  Morris  S.J.) 


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Lent  Term,  1891. 

The  Queen  has  been  pleased  to  appoint  Lord  Windsor 
(B.A.  1878)  a  member  of  Her  Most  Honourable  Privy  Council, 
and  Pa3anaster  General. 

Mr  W.  F.  R,  Weldon  F.R.S.,  Fellow  of  the  College,  has 
been  appointed  to  the  Jodrell  Professorship  of  Comparative 
Anatomy  and  Zoology,  vacated  by  the  election  of  Professor 
Ray  Lankester  as  Deputy  Linacre  Professor  in  the  University 
of  Oxford.  Mr  Weldon  resigns  his  University  Lectureship 
in  Invertebrate  Morphology. 

We  are  glad  to  welcome  back  to  the  College  Mr.  J.  J.  Lister 
(B.A.  1880),  who  has  been  appointed  Assistant  to  the  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Museum  of  Zoology  and  Comparative  Anatomy. 
We  trust  Mr  Lister  will  be  able  to  renew  his  valued  and  valuable 
services  to  the  L.M.B.C. 

Mr  Ernest  Lawrence  Levett  (Third  Wrangler  1870),  formerly 
Fellow,  has  been  appointed  Queen's  Counsel.  Mr  R.  D. 
Cumberland-Jones  has  been  called  to  the  Bar.  Mr  A.  H. 
Bagley  (B.A.  1888),  formerly  Editor  of  the  Eagle,  has  been 
appointed  Deputy-Judge  of  the  Small  Cause  Court,  Rangoon. 

The  Bishop  of  Durham  has  appointed  Mr  Lewis  T.  Dibdin, 
of  Lincoln's  Inn,  to  succeed  Mr  Justice  Jeune  as  Chancellor 
of  the  Diocese  of  Durham.  Mr  Dibdin  practises  at  the 
Chancery  Bar,  and  already  holds  the  Chancellorships  of  Exeter 
and  Rochester. 

The  Council  have  extended  for  two  years  the  tenure  of  the 
Fellowships  held  by  Mr  A.  Harker,  University  Demonstrator 
in  Geology,  and  Mr  W.  Bateson,  late  Baliour  Student  in 
Biology. 

Professor  W.  H.  Bennett  M.A.,  of  Hackney  College,  late 
Fellow  of  the  College,  has  been  temporarily  appointed  to  the 
Chair  of  Hebrew  at  New  College,  London,  in  succession  to 
the  late  Dr  Evans. 

The  Yorke  Prize  for  1890  has  been  adjudged  to  Ds  T.  A. 
Herbert  LL.B.,  MacMahon  Law  Student  of  the  College,  for 
an  Essay  on  The  Hutory  of  the  Law  of  Prescription  in  England^ 
Ds  Herbert  was  bracketed  Senior  in  the  Law  Tripos  of  1887.     , 

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Ds  A.  W.  Greenup  (First  Class  Theological  Tripos  Part  II 
1890),  Foundation  Scholar,  has  gained  the  first  Jeremie  Prize 
for  knowledge  of  the  Septuagint. 

T.  R.  Glover,  Scholar  of  the  College,  is  honourably 
mentioned  for  the  Waddington  University  Scholarship. 

The  Thirlwall  Prize  has  been  awarded  to  Ds  Francis  Aiden 
Hibbert  (Historical  Tripos  1 889)  for  a  dissertation  on  The  Hisioty 
and  Developmeni  of  the  English  Gilds  as  illustraUd  by  the  history  of 
the  Gilds  of  Shrewsbury: 

Ds  R.  H.  Forster  LLB.  ^Senior  in  Law  Tripos  1890),  has 
^been  'elected  to  a  MacMahon  Law  Studentship ;  and  Ds  W. 
Easterby  LL.B.  (Law  Tripos  1885),  Yorke  Prizeman  1887,  to 
.the  remainder  of  the  Studentship  vacant  by  the  death  of  Ds 
'Greenidge. 

The  Hulsean  Prize  for  1890  has  been  gained  by  Ds  H.  H. 
Scullard,  Naden  Divinity  Student  of  the  College,  for  an  essay 
on  Martin  of  Tours, 

Mr  J.  Bass  Mullinger,  our  Librarian,  has  this  term  been 
delivering  the  Birkbeck  lectures  at  Trinity  College,  on  The 
Temporal  Power  of  the  Papacy :  its  Origin  and  Results. 

Dr  William  Hunter,  Fellow-Commoner  of  the  College,  has 
been  appointed  Assistant-Physician  to  the  London  Fever 
Hospital. 

Ds  J.  T.  Hewitt,  Scholar  of  the  College,  gained  the  Scholar- 
ship in  Chemistry  awarded  at  the  recent  B.Sc.  Examination 
of  the  University  of  London.  He  has  been  elected  (for  research 
in  Chemistry)  to  the  Hutchinson  Studentship  of  the  College, 
vacated  by  Mr  E.  H.  Hankin,  now  a  Fellow. 

Ds  J.  J.  Alexander  (Eighth  Wrangler  1890)  has  been 
appointed  a  Lecturer  in  Mathematics  at  the  University  College 
of  North  Wales,  Bangor. 

We  have  received  a  number  of  The  Eagle :  an  intercollegiate 
Magazine^  published  at  Stonyhurst  College,  as  the  journal  of 
the  several  Roman  Catholic  schools  or  colleges  in  England. 
It  is  well  edited,  and  adorned  with  a  veritable  bird  on  the  cover. 
The  managers,  strange  to  say,  were  unaware  of  the  existence  of 
.The  Only  and  Genuine  Eagle  when  they  chose  the  title;  but 
we  accept  without  demur  the  sincere  flattery  they  unconsciously 
bestowed  on  us. 

Mr  R.  T.  Wright,  our  Law  Lecturer,  has  been  appointed 
Editor  of  the  Cambridge  University  Reporter^  in  succession  to 
Canon  G.  F.  Browne,  Disney  Professor  of  Archaeology. 


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'  An  illuminated  testimonial  with  a  purse  of  three  hundred 
guineas  has  been  presented  to  Mr  E.  J.  C.  Morton  (B.A.  i88o)» 
formerly  Scholar  of  the  College,  in  acknowledgment  of  his 
political  services  as  Secretary  to  the  Home  Rule  Union. 

On  his  retirement  at  Christmas  from  the  Head- Mastership  of 
the  Monmouth  Grammar  School,  the  Rev  C.  M.  Roberts,  now 
Rector  of  Brinkley,  was  entertained  at  dinner  by  his  friends 
and  former  pupils,  who  presented  him  with  an  illuminated 
address.    The  text  was  as  follows : 

TO  THE  RKV  CHARLES  MANLY  ROBERTS,  B.D*,  ST  JOHN'S 
COLLEGE,   CAMBRIDGE. 

The  undermentioned,  on  behalf  of  the  old  scholars,  avail 
themselves  of  the  occasion  offered  by  the  severance  of  your 
connection  with  the  school,  which  has  extended  over  twenty-one 
years,  to  ofifer  you  a  small  token  of  the  appreciation  and  respect 
in  which  you  are  unanimou^y  held  by  them.  During  the  period 
of  your  head-mastership  the  school  has  enjoyed  unprecedented 
prosperity,  as  testified  by  our  numerous  successes  at  the  univer^ 
sities  and  hospitals,  a  prosperity  in  no  small  part  due  to  the^ 
able  manner  in  which  you  have  conducted  the  affairs  of  the 
school.  Those  of  us  who  have  had  the  privilege  of  boarding  in 
your  house  would  express  their  gratitude  to  Mrs  Roberts  and 
yourself  for  the  unremitting  care  and  attention  always  extended 
to  us.  In  conclusion,  we  beg  to  express  our  heartfelt  wishes 
that  yourself  and  your  family  may  long  be  spared  to  continue 
your  useful  lives  to  the  benefit  of  your  parishioners. 

Dr  Sandys,  Tutor  of  the  College,  has  been  re-elected  President 
of  the  Cambridge  Philological  Society  for  the  current  year. 

Among  recent  gifts  to  the  smaller  Combination- Room  are — a 
platinotype  portrait  of  the  late  Dr  Churchill  Babington,  formerly 
Disney  Professor,  presented  by  Mrs  Babington;  a  handsome 
brass  candle-sconce  bearing  the  arms  of  Dr  James  Wood, 
formerly  Master,  and  one  of  our  great  benefactors,  presented  by 
Mr  Newbold,  Head- Master  of  St  Bees'  School ;  and  a  hand- 
some wrought-iron  firescreen,  presented  by  Mr  Pendlebury.  Mr 
W.  F.  Smith  has  also  given  an  old  engraving  of  Dr  Samuel 
Parr,  which  illustrates  and  confirms  the  tradition  that  the 
oil-portrait  in  the  Combination- Room  was  once  adorned  with 
the  efiigy  of  a  long  clay  pipe;  and  Professor  Mayor  ha^ 
presented  a  collection  of  impressions  of  ancient  seals,  including 
one  of  Bishop  Fisher  and  one  of  Lady  Margaret,  from 
documents  in  the  College  Muniment-room. 

Professor  Marshall,  Fellow  of  the  College,  has  founded  a 
triennial  University  prize  of /'ao,  to  be  called  the  Adam  Smith 
Prize,  for  an  essay  on  some  unsettled  question  in  Economio 
Science,  or  on  some  branch  of  Nineteenth  Century  Economic 
History  ox  Statistics.  Candidates  are  to  be  graduates  of  not 
more  than  four  years'  standing  from  their  first  degree. 


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Mr  Pendlebury  has  been  appointed  an  Elector  to  the 
Professorship  of  Music;  Professor  Liveing  an  Elector  to  the 
Professorships  of  Anatomy  and  Experimental  Physics;  Dr 
Bonney  an  Elector  to  the  Professorships  of  Geology  and 
Mineralogy;  Mr  Roby  an  Elector  to  the  Professorship  of 
Political  Economy ;  Dr  Sandys  an  Elector  to  the  Professorship 
of  Sanskrit;  Dr  Besant  an  Elector  to  the  Professorship  of 
Mechanism  and  Applied  Mathematics;  Mr  H.  M.  Gwatkin 
an  Elector  to  the  Dixie  Professorship  of  Ecclesiastical  History ; 
Professor  J.  B.  Mayor  an  ^Elector  to  the  Professorship  of 
Mental  Philosophy  and  Logic.  Mr  H.  M.  Gwatkin  has  been 
appointed  an  Examiber  for  the  Lightfoot  Scholarships  of  1892; 
iVofessor  A.  G.  Greenhill  an  Adjudicator  of  the  Adams  Prize  of 
1893;  ^^  ^*  F*  Smith  and  Mr  Cox,  Examiners  for  the 
Previous  Examination;  Mr  Haskins  an  Examiner  for  the 
General;  Mr  Caldecott  an  Examiner  for  the  Moral  Science 
Special,  and  Mr  Tanner  for  the  History  Special;  Mr  G.  F. 
Stout  a  member  of  the  Moral  Science  Board ;  Mr  T.  Roberts 
and  Mr  E.  H.  Acton  Examiners  of  Students  at  Local  Lecture 
Centres. 

The  Editorial  Committee  haire  to  acknowledge  with  thanks 
the  portraits  of  the  following  former  Editors,  which  have  been 
sent  them  for  the  Eagle  Album :  W.  E.  Mullins  (Marlborough), 
F.  C.  Wace  (Mayor  of  Cambridge),  C.  C.  Cotterill  (Fettes), 
W.  Lee  Warner  (Bombay),  C.  H.  Heath  (Highgate  School), 
Rev  A.  Caldecott  (Junior  Dean).    The  Album  is  not  yet  full. 

In  connexion  with  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the 
Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  there  was  a  celebration  of  Holy 
Communion  in  the  College  Chapel,  at  8  a.m.  on  Monday, 

January  26.  The  Master  of  the  College  celebrated,  assisted 
y  the  Rev  P.  H.  Mason,  President.  Afterwards,  by  kind 
permission  of  the  Master  and  Fellows,  the  members  and 
supporters  of  the  Society,  with  the  preachers  and  other 
friends,  numbering  over  100,  including  about  70  under- 
graduates, sat  down  to  breakfast  in  the  College  hall.  The 
Master  of  Selwyn,  chairman  of  the  Local  Committee,  presided, 
and  a  short  address  was  given  by  the  Earl  of  Stamford,  a 
member  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Society.  Ptof 
Sir  G.  G,  Stokes,  M.P.,  proposed  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the 
College  authorities  for  the  use  of  the  hall,  which  was  briefly 
acknowledged  by  the  President*  in  the  absence  of  the 
Master. 

The  Rev  R.  B.  Davies  B.A.  (1882),  and  formerly  of  the 
Cambridge  Clergy  School,  for  two  years  curate  in  St  Matthew's 
parish,  Cambridge,  and  more  recently  at  Nottingham,  has 
joined  the  Universities  Mission  to  Central  Africa.  G.  W. 
Atlay  (B.A.  1889)  has  also  decided  to  join  this  Mission. 


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The  Rev  F.  F.  Adeney  (B.A.  1887),  formerly  curate  at 
Christ  Church,  Cambridge,  has  been  appointed  by  the  Church 
Missionary  Society  to  be  Principal  of  the  Bishop  Gobat 
School  at  Jerusalem.  This  School  is  intended  partly  for 
the  education  of  Mohammedan  children,  and  partly  for  the 
education  of  candidates  for  ordination  from  among  all  the 
Arabic-speaking  peoples  of  Syria,  Egypt,  and  Arabia. 

Mr  Caldecott,  our  Junior  Dean,  has  been  invited  to  rejoin 
the  Committee  of  the  Cambridge  Clergy  Training  School, 
and  also  to  join  the  Committee  of  the  Cambridge  Training 
College  for  Women  Teachers. 

A  portrait  and  biographical  account  of  the  Rev  T.  A.  L. 
Greaves  (B.A.  1850),  Vicar  of  Clifton,  Bristol,  is  given  in 
The  English  Churchman  of  December  11,   1890. 

The  Rev  A.  R.  A.  Nicol  (B.A.  1887)  has  been  elected  a 
Chaplain  at  King's  College,  Cambridge. 

The  preachers  in  the  College  Chapel  this  term  have  been 
Mr  Bowling,  Mr  Ward,  Mr  Graves,  and  Mr  Denton,  Hon. 
Canon  of  Peterborough. 


The  following  members  of  the  College  were  ordained  in 
December, 

Parish. 
Chels6eld 

AU  Saints,  Child's-Hill 
St  Luke's,  Kilbum 
St  Peter's,  Bishop  Auck. 

land 
Romsey 
Chaplain  to  King's  CoU., 

Taunton 
St  John  the  Evangelist  s, 

Everton 
Middleton 
Todmorden 
St  Luke's,  Preston 
Thame,  Oiford 
Bloxham,  Oxford 
Market  Harborough 
St  James*,  Hatcham 
St  Paol's,  Deptford 

Barking 


H.  Trinity,  Barking  Road 
Dudley 


NafM. 

Diocese, 

Scutt,  A.  0. 

Canterbury 

Coombes,  H.  E.  H. 

London 

Neal.  T. 

London 

Fedden,  W.  C.  D. 

Durham 

Allen,  J.  B. 
Box,  W.  H. 

Winchester 

Bath  and  Wells 

PhiUips,  R.  N.  F. 

Liverpool 

Bamber,  J. 

Manchester 

Roberts,  A.  S. 

Manchester 

Walker,  D.  E. 

Manchester 

Belshaw,  T. 

Oxford 

Manley,  E.  (M.A.) 

Oxford 

Robertson,  A.  J. 

Peterborough 

Askwiih,  C. 

Rochester 

Richards,  P.  J. 

Rochester 

Cleave,  P.  R. 

St  Albans 

Gowie,  A.  D.  M. 

St  Albans 

Ordained  in  February. 

Norton,  R.  G. 

St  Albans 

Finnstone,  H.  L. 

Worcester 

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The  following  Ecclesiastical  Appointments  of  members  of 
the  College  are  announced. 

Name.  B,A.  from  to 

Madge,  F.  T.,  M.A.       (I872)  Chap.  Bp.    Morley's    R.  of  Littleton,  Hi&te 

Coll.,  Manchester 
Whitby,  Canon  T.,  MA.  (1859)  V.  of  Dewsbury  V.  of  St  John's,  San- 

down,  I.  of  Wight 
Poole,  A.,  M.A.,  (1855)  V.  of  Ryde  Hon.     Canon    Win* 

Chester  Cathedral 
Thoip,  W.,  B.D.  (1866)  C.  of  Tarrant,  GunviUe    R-ofRymelntrinsica, 

Dorset 
Jagger,  J.  E.,  M.A.  •    (1885)  C.of  Beverley  Minster    V.     of     Stanton-in- 

Peach,  Dcrb3rshire 
Madden,  W.  M.,  M.A.  (1845)  P.    C.    of  H.  Trin.,    Hon  Canon  Wakefield 

Wakefield  Cathedral 

Koott,.W.  L.O.,M.  A.  (1880)  C.  of  Leamington  Lecturer    of    Parish 

Church,  Bolton 
(1855)  V.  Arken-Garth-Dale    V.ofCauDton,Newark 
R.  of  Combe  Florey, 
Somertshire 


Tinkler,  J.,  M.A. 
Powell- Jones,  H.  0.» 

M.A. 
Rudd,  E.  J.  S.,  M.A. 


(1867)  C.  ofCranmore 
(1863)  R.  of  Freshwater 


Oliver,  J.,  M.A. 

Brown,  A.,  M.A. 
Bellman,  A.  F.,  M.A. 


(1872)  C.  of  Croston,  Manch. 

(1849)  R.  ofCatfield 
(1875)  V.  of  Suplefield 


Jones,  C.  A.,  M.A.         (1857)  V.  of  Dedham 
Long,  W.  S.  F.,  M.A.   (1880)  Vice-Principal 


Prebendary  of  Pionia 

Parva  in  Hereford 

Cathedral 
R.  of  Cowland,  near 

Stedmere,  Yorks. 
R.  Dean  of  Waxham 
Chaplain^     Cuckfield 

Union 
R.  Dean  of  Dedham 
Principal  of  Culham 

Train.  Coll.,  Oxon. 


Mr  Henry  Littlehales  has  edited  and  printed  the  rare  manu- 
script (G.  24)  in  our  Library,  entitled  The  Prymir,  a  Prayer 
Book  of  the  Lay  People  in  the  Middle  Ages  in  English,  dating 
about  A.D.  1400.  Longmans  are  the  publishers.  Mr  Littlehales 
promises  a  supplementary  volume  of  introduction  and  notes  in 
a  few  years. 

The  Royal  Historical  Society  has  published  a  volume 
containing  the  text  of  Walter  of  HenUys  Husbandry,  Robert 
Grosetestis  Rules,  the  Seneschaucie,  and  a  work  known  as  the 
Anonymous  Husbandry,  The  transcripts  and  translation  are 
by  Miss  E.  Lamond,  and  the  volume  has  an  introduction  by 
Dr  W.  Cunningham  of  Trinity.  The  text  of  the  anonymous 
treatise  is  taken  from  a  MS  in  the  possession  of  the  College, 
which  used  formerly  to  be  kept  in  the  Muniment  Room  but 
is  now  deposited  in  the  Library.  This  MS,  which  is  on  a 
parchment  seven  feet  four  inches  long  and  six  inches  wide, 
is  written  in  a  hand  of  the  early  fourteenth  century  and 
probably  belonged  to  the  old  Hospital  of  St  John.  Mr  Riley 
in  the  First  Report  of  the  Historical  Manuscripts  Commission  (p.  75) 
described  it  as  the  Liber  Hosebondrice  of  Robert  Groseteste,  but 
this  was  a  mistake.  The  present  volume-  gives  these  treatises 
in  a  convenient  form.  They  are  of  great  interest  as  being 
first-hand  evidence  of  the  views  of  our  forefathers,  on  farming* 


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The  anonymous  treatise  begins  as  follows: 

Ceo  est  Hosebonderib 

Cest  escrit  si  aprent  la  manere  coment  horn  deit  charger  bailifs 
&  prouoz  sur  lur  aconte  rendre  de  un  maner  e  coment  horn 
deit  maner  garder.  Al  pnmer  deit  celuy  ke  rente  aconte  iurrer 
ke  il  rendra  leal  aconte  &  leaument  se  chargera  de  quant  ke  il 
ad  receu  des  biens  le  seyngnur  ne  riens  ne  metra  en  sun  roule 
fors  ceo  ke  il  ad  leaument  despendu  &  a  prou  le  seyngnur  a  sun 
ascient,  &c. 

[This  is  Husbandry 

This  writing  teaches  the  Way  in  which  a  man  ought  to  direct 
bailiffs  and  provosts  about  rendering  the  account  of  a  manor, 
and  how  a  man  ought  to  look  after  a  manor.  In  the  first  place 
he  who  renders  account  ought  to  swear  that  he  will  render 
a  lawful  account  and  faithfully  account  for  what  he  has  received 
of  the  goods  of  his  lord,  and  that  he  will  put  nothing  in  his 
roll  save  what  he  has  to  his  knowledge  spent  lawfully  and 
to  his  lord's  profit,  &c.] 

The  latest  volume  of  the  Dictionaty  of  National  Biography 
(part  of  letter  H)  contains  very  few  names  of  general  interest. 
The  following  Johnians  find  a  place  in  it. 

Richard  Harris  D.D.  (B.A.  1579),  Fellow  and  College- 
preacher:  author  of  the  Concordia  Anglicana  de primatu  EccUsiae 
regio,  London,  161 2. 

Thomas  Harrison  D.D.  (B.A.  1576),  who  was  invited  to 
Trinity  College  as  Fellow  and  Tutor,  and,  having  held  the 
Vice-Mastership  for  twenty  years,  was  buried  in  Trinity  Chapel 
'with  some  pomp.'  He  was  a  Hebraist  and  one  of  the 
Translators  of  the  Bible. 

William  George  Harrison  (i8th  Wrangler  1850),  a  Proper  Sizar 
of  the  College,  and  a  vigorous  speaker  at  the  Union  Society 
on  the  Conservative  side.  Mr  Harrison  was  very  learned  in 
commercial  law  and  had  a  large  number  of  law-pupils. 

John  Haviland  M.D.  (12th  Wrangler  in  1807),  Fellow 
of  the  College,  Regius  Professor  of  Physic  1817-51,  of  whom 
it  is  recorded  that  he  *'kept  alive  the  Medical  School  of 
Cambridge,"  by  giving  regular  courses  of  lectures  with 
examinations  thereon.  One  of  the  windows  of  the  College 
Chapel  is  inscribed  with  his  name. 

William  Hayward  (B.A.  1620),  Fellow,  who  was  Court 
preacher  and  Chaplain  to  Archbishop  Laud,  and  afterwards 
Chaplain  to  King  Charles  L  He  was  ejected  from  his 
chaplaincy  in  1641  and  imprisoned.  His  action  in  licensing 
some  books  of  a  'papistical'  character  was  made  part  of 
the  accusation  against  the  Archbishop.  He  afterwards  kept 
a  private  School,  but  eventually  received  preferment  again  at 
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Robert  Harristm^  pensioner,  removed  to  Corpus  Christi 
College.  He  was  imprisoned  as  a  friend  of  Browne,  the 
first  Independent  Minister. 

John  Harris  D.D.  (B.A.  1687)  and  F.R.S.  was  Boyle 
Lecturer.  It  is  noteworthy  that  Dr  Harris  when  a  London 
incumbent  began  a  kind  of  University  Extension  by  giving 
public  lectures  (free)  at  a  coffee-house  in  Birchin  Lane,  and 
also  at  his  own  house  in  Amen  Comer.  He  prepared  the 
first  English  Dictionary  of  Arts  and  Sciences.  We  regret, 
however,  to  have  to  record  that  his  public  spirit  exceeded 
his  private  prudence,  for  he  was  'culpably  improvident 
and  generally  in  distress':  and  he  died  an  absolute  pauper. 
Eleven  different  works  of  his  are  enumerated  in  the  article. 

^Orator*  Henley  (B.A.  17 12),  whose  portrait  is  in  the 
smaller  Combination-room,  came  up  from  the  Grammar 
School  of  Melton  Mowbray,  where  his  father  was  Vicar,  and 
from  a  private  School  at  Oakham.  He  was  possessed  with 
the  idea  that  the  current  methods  of  study  and  of  preaching 
needed  change,  his  dissatisfaction  beginning  whilst  he  was 
in  residence  in  the  College.  He  became  a  noted  preacher  of 
Charity  Sermons,  but  was  pompous  in  elocution  almost  to 
eccentricity.  Pope  pilloried  him  in  the  Dunciad  as  '  Preacher 
at  once,  and  Zany  of  his  age.'  The  catalogue  of  his  works 
runs  to  a  list  of  23,  and  the  British  Museum  has  50  MS  volumes 
of  lectures  of  his  besides. 

We  learn  from  the  Standard  of  March  2,  that  the  Editors 
of  The  Revised  Stud-Book  were  aided  by  MSS  from  Welbeck 
and  from  Lowther  Castle.  But  the  chief  helper  was  John 
Butler  (B.A.  1851),  of  Raikes  Farm,  Abinger,  and  of  St  John's 
College,  who  was  himself  about  to  begin  a  similar  work. 

In  December  next  the  examination  in  Natural  Science  from 
Entrance  Scholarships  and  Exhibitions  will  be  distinct  for 
the  Inter-Collegiate  Examination.  Candidates  may  take  up 
Physics,  Chemistry,  Geology,  Botany,  Zoology,  Human  Anatomy, 
or  Physiology;  but  they  must  show  a  competent  knowledge 
of  two  at  least  of  the  following — (i)  Physics,  (2)  Chemistry, 
(3)  Botany  or  Zoology.  Application  for  particulars  is  to  be 
made  to  the  Tutors. 

An  examination  for  two  Choral  Studentships  (tenor  and  bass) 
will  be  held  on  June  12.  Candidates  may  be  either  present  or 
intending  undergraduates  of  the  College.  A  notice  giving 
details  may  be  obtained  from  the  Tutors. 

Entrance  Scholarships  and  Exhibitions,  December  1890. 

Foundation  Scholarships  of  £%o  : 

G.  Hibbert-Ware  (Cneltenham  College)  for  Mathematics. 
£.  A.  Werner  (Blackheath  Proprietary  School)  for  Mathematics  and 
Natural  Science. 

Foundation  Scholarship  of  £60  : 

R,  W.  Tate  (Shrewsbury  School)  for  Classics. 


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Foundation  Scholarships  of  £$o  : 

C.  G.  Leftwich  (Christ's  Hospital)  for  Mathematics. 

C.  F.  Hare  (Christ's  Hospital)  for  Mathematics. 

W.  Raw  (Newcastle  Grammar  School)  for  Mathematics. 
Minor  Scholarship  of£^o : 

C.  Edmunds  ((Jhrist  s  Hospital)  for  Mathematics. 

C.  L.  Russell  (Rugby  School)  for  Classics. 

J.  Smale  (St  John*s  College,  Hurstpierpoint)  for  Mathematics. 

A.  J.  Tait  (Merchant  Taylors*  School)  lor  Classics  and  Hebrew. 
Exhibitions : 

K.  C.  D6  (Presidency  College,  Calcutta)  for  Mathematics  and  Sanskrit, 

H.  H.  Emslie  (Felsted  School)  for  Mathematics. 

A.  D.  Jones  (Aldenham  (jrammar  School)  for  Classics. 

T.  G.  Leathem  (Queen's  College,  Belfast)  for  Mathematics. 

K.  R.  Mc  Eldeny  (Queen's  College,  Belfast)  for  Classics. 

The  following  books  by  members  of  the  College  are 
announced: — Vergili  Aeneidos  lib,  viii  (Macmillan),  by  the  Rev 
A.  Calvert ;  School  Sermons  (Blackwood),  by  the  late  Alexander 
William  Potts  LL.D.,  first  Head-Master  of  Fettes  College, 
Edinburgh;  Differential  and  Integral  Calculus^  second  edition 
(Macmillan),  by  A.  G.  Greejihill ;  Cicero  de  Oratofe  book  it, 
second  edition  (Frowde),  by  Dr  A.  S.  Wilkins;  Key  to 
Arithmetic  in  Theory  and  Practice  (Macmillan),  by  the  late 
J.  Brooksmith. 

Medical  ExAMmATioNS,  December  1890. 
First  M.B.  . 
Chemistry  etc.  Ds  Bumsted 

Edwards,  C.  D. 
Biology  Ds  Bumsted 

Burnett 

Draper 

Edwards,  C.  D. 

Second  M.B. 
Pharmacy*  Cuff 

Haigh 
Ds  HUl,  A. 

Anatomy  etc.  Cuff 

Ds  Glover,  F.  B. 
Goodman 

Third  M.B. 
Surgery  etc,  Ds  Bindloss 

Ds  Carling 
Ds  Godson 
Medicine  etc.  Dk  Grabham 

Ds  KeUett 
Mag  Samways 

Adhitted  to  the  Degrees  of  M.B.  and  B.C. 
Ds  Bindloss,  A.  H. 
Ds  Simmons,  W.  W. 
Ds  KeUett,  A.  F. 
Ds  Wright,  J.  C. 

Admitted  to  the  Degree  of  M.D. 

Mag  Shore,  L.  £.,  Fellow  of  the  College. 

VOL.  XVI.  TTT 


Mayor 
Ds  Moore 

Godson,  F.  R. 

Gruber 

NichoUs 


Kingsford,  R.  L. 
Leww,  F.  H. 
Waldon 
Ds  Lees,  B.  H. 
Lewis,  F.  H. 
Jdag  Sankey 

Ds  Lewis,  S. 
Mag  Samways 

Ds  Simmons,  W.  W« 
Ds  Wright 


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Two  important  inscribed  stones  found  here  are  designated  as  ''walfing 
stones.**  Tlie  first  known  of  these  was  in  the  year  1773  in  the  wall  of  a 
sihall  house  near  the  church.  It  is  now  preserved  at  St  John's  CoDcge, 
Cambridge.  The  dimensions  of  the  stone  are  two  feet,  four  inches  long,  ten 
inches  high.  On  the  front  are  engraved  Latin  letteis,  signifying  "The 
Twentieth  Legion,  Valeria,  the  Victorious  made  this."  On  the  right  side 
is  a  figure  of  a  wild  boar,  which  was  the  badge  of  the  Twentieth  Legion,  and 
occurs  on  many  sculptures  and  inscriptions  left  by  it. 

The  other  stone,  also  preserved  at  St  John's  College,  as  beqneathed  by 
t)r  W  hitaker  [See  Mayor-Baker^  p.  738]  is  nine  and  a  half  inches  high,  and 
eleven  and  three  quarters  inches  oroad,  composed  of  a  fine  red  sandstone. 
On  it  are  words  and  letters,  COH.  X  TITIANA  O.  P.  XXVII.,  which 
signify :  "  The  Century  (or  company  of  one  hundred  men,  called)  Titiana 
of  the  Tenth  Cohort  built  twenty-seven  feet."  Titianus  was  the  Centurion's 
^name,  and  his  company  bore  his  name,  just  as  a  company  of  one  of  our 
■  regiments  is  styled  for  example  Captain  Smith's,  from  the  name  of  its  head* 
.  officer.  Likewise  our  regiments  have  their  badges,  taken  from  animals.  For 
instance,  the  former  Fourth  Regiment  of  the  Line  had  as  such  the  Lion  of 
England,  the  former  Fifth  had  St  George  and  the  Dragon,  and  the  Sixth  an 
Antelope.  The  Wild  Boar  was  a  favourite  one,  as  it  should  appear  from  its 
being  tne  device  of  two  out  of  four  legions  that  conquered  Britain. 

T<jm  C,  Smith  and  the  Rev  y,  Shortt :  The 
V  History  of  the  Parish  of  Ribchestcr, 

(London  and  Preston  1890). 

One  of  the  best  of  the  many  Elizabethan  sonetteers  was  Henry  Constable, 
a  writer  who  has,  unfortunatdy,  become  well  nigh  forgotten  now.  Direct 
evidence  of  the  poet's  birth  is  difficult  to  find,  but  it  is  generally  accepted 
that  he  was  bom  at  Newark,  and  that  he  was  the  son  of  Sfr  Robert  ConsUble, 
Queen  Elizabeth's  Lieutenant  of  Ordnance.  He  was  bom  about  the  year  1562, 
and  was  educated  at  Cambridge,  leaving  St  John's  College  in  1580  with  the 
degree  of  B.  A.  Sir  Robert  Constable,  bong  a  Roman  Catholic,  was  deprived 
of  his  office ;  his  son,  professing  the  same  religion  as  his  father,  retired  to  the 
Continent,  where  he  travelled  over  Italy,  Poland,  and  the  Netherlands.  His 
property  at  Newark  he  sold  at  the  death  of  his  father  to  the  grandson  of  the 
great  Lord  Burghley.  This  was  in  159 1.  In  the  following  year  he  published 
his  first  volume  of  verse  in  which,  under  the  title  of  *'  Diana,"  he  expressed 
in  the  guise  of  sonnets  his  admiration  of  the  much  admired  Lady  Rich  ~  to 
whom  Sfr  Philip  Sidney  also  dedicated  his  genius.  The  full  title  of  this 
publication,  which  appeared  in  the  large  form  of  a  quarto,  was  Diana  ;  the 
praises  of  his  mistres  in  certaine  sweete  sonnets  fy  J/.C,  and  the  genius  of 
its  author  was  soon  recognised.  Encouraged  by  this  success  Henry  Constable 
wrote  and  published  more,  and  in  15931  when  Shakespeare  was  struggling 
and  almost  unknown,  he  published  the  first  edition  of  his  collected  volume 
of  verse.  The  success  of  the  book,  even  in  that  brilliant  era,  was  such  that 
further  editions,  with  various  new  pieces  added,  were  published  in  1597 
and  1604. 

Speaking  of  the  writers  of  the  period— about  1590— a  competent  critic 
(George  Saintsbury)  says  that  thefr  work  is  of  "  unchastened  vigour,  full  of 
promise,  but  decidedly  in  need  of  further  schooling  and  discipline.  But  tins 
cannot  be  said,"  he  continues,  '*  of  the  three  remarkable  collections  yet  to  be 
noticed  which  appear  in  this  year,  to  wit,  Constable's  Dianoy  Daniel's  Delioy 
and  Drayton's  Idea,  These  three  head  the  group  and  contain  the  best  work, 
after  Shakespeaie  and  Spenser  and  Sidney,  in  the  English  sonnet  of  the 
time."  Speaking  of  Constable,  he  says  further  on,  "  He  was  a  close  friend 
of  Sidney,  many  of  whose  sonnets  were  published  with  his,  and  his  work  has 
much  of  the  Sidneian  colour,  but  with  fewer  flights  of  happily  expressed 
fancy."    The  best  of  it  is  probably  the  following  sonnet,  wluch  is  not  only 


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full  of  gracefully  expressed  images,  but  keeps  up  its  flight  from  first  to  last^ 
a  thing  not  univerbal  in  these  Elizabethan  sonnets : — 

My  lady's  presence  makes  the  roses  red» 

Because  to  see  her  lips  they  blush  for  shame. 

The  lily's  leaves,  for  envy,  pale  became: 

And  her  white  bands  in  them  this  envy  bred. 

The  marieold  the  leaves  abroad  doth  spread. 

Because  the  sun's  and  her  power  is  the  same. 

The  violet  of  purple  colour  came. 

Dyed  in  the  blood  she  made  my  heart  to  shed. 

In  brief,  all  flowers  from  her  -tneir  virtue  take ; 

From  her  sweet  breath  their  sweet  smells  do  proceed ; 

The  living  heat  which  her  eyebeams  doth  make, 

Warmeth  the  ground,  and  quickeneth  the  seed. 

The  rain  wherewith  she  watereth  the  flowers, 

Falls  firom  mine  eyes,  which  she  dissolves  in  showers. 

In  1594  Constable  and  a  properly  accredited  Papal  legate  proceeded  to 
Scotland  lor  the  purpose  of  persuading  King  James  to  grant  a  toleration  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  religion  in  that  country.  The  journey  was  fruitless,  for 
James  had  his  eye  on  the  reversion  of  the  neighbouring  crown  of  <'  Cousin  '*' 
Elizabeth.  The  eloquence  and  persuasiveness  even  of  Constable  failed  to 
shake  James's  resolution,  and  the  disappointed  missionaries  returned  to  the 
Continent.  The  year  following  the  accession  of  James  to  the  English  throne 
Constable  was  imprboned  in  the  Tower,  but  after  a  short  period  of  captivity 
he  was  released  and  went  abroad.  In  1607  he  was  again  imprisoned  at 
London,  his  well-known  Catholic  tendencies  no  doubt  making  him  an  object 
of  suspicion,  whilst  the  gunpowder  plot  embittered  the  feeling  against  him. 

His  second  imprisonment  was  of  no  lengthy  duration,  and  upon  regaining 
freedom  he  proceeded  to  Paris,  where  he  took  up  his  abode.  The  remainder 
of  his  life  was  spent  on  the  Continent  in  the  service  of  his  religion.  He  died 
in  16 13 — three  years  before  the  death  of  Shakespeare  — having  passed  through 
an  honourable  though  a  chequered  career,  in  which  he  allowed  his  prospects 
and  his  liberty  to  be  taken  from  him  on  account  of  the  faith  he  loved  so 
well. 

Nottingham  Express,  September  1 5,  1890. 

Whatever  difficulties  might  have  previously  embarrassed  Mr  Fallows' 
career  were  now  dissipated.  At  St  John's,  honourably  distinguished  (perhaps 
above  all  other  colleges)  for  attention  to  the  education  and  interests  of 
unfriended  merit,  he  tound  every  assistance  which  could  be  desired— kind 
fiiends,  most  able  instructors,  and  an  unUmited  power  of  consulting  books. 

R.  Sheepshanks :  Memoirs  of  the  Royal 
Astronomical  Society,  v.  404  (1832). 

[Fallows  was  Third  Wrangler  1813,  Fellow  of  the  College,  and  Astronomer 
at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.] 

And  when  the  foote  of  the  phane  or  image  in  turning  about,  did  rub  and 
grinde  upon  the  copper  base)  uxed  upon  the  pointe  of  the  obeliske,  it  gaue 
such  a  sound,  as  if  the  tower  bell  of  Saint  Johns  Colled ge  in  the  famous 
Uniuersitie  of  Cambridge  had  beene  rung ;  or  that  in  the  pompeous  Bathes 
of  the  mightie  Hadrian :  or  that  in  the  iilt  Pyramides  standing  upon  foure. 

R,D.:  Translation  of  F.  Colonna*s  Hypnerotomachia,  Loud.  1592.  [p.  19, 
ed.  Lang,  Lond.  1890]. 

[There  is  nothing  in  the  original  corresponding  to  the  sentence  about 
the  tower  bell  of  St  John's  College,  which  is  introduced  by  the  translator. 
He  is  R.  D.,  supposed  to  be  Robert  Dallington,  afterwards  Master  of  the 
Charterhouse.  He  is  said  to  have  been  of  Pembroke  College,  but  his  name 
does  not  occur  in  the  matriculation  books,  which  Dr  Luard,  the  Registrary, 
has  looked  through  carefully;  he  certainly  took  no  degree.  He  spent  a 
good  deal  of  his  early  life  in  Italy.  J 


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July  26,  1837.  The  Election  for  the  Town  tenninated  hi  £ivor  of  Messrs 
Bice  and  Pryme.  After  the  Election  there  was  a  regnlar  row.  For  some 
cause  or  other  the  Mayor  thought  fit  to  send  Maberly  of  King's  to  the 
station-house  and  also  Earnshaw  of  St  John's  [Senior  Wrangler  1831],  who  is 
acting  for  the  Senior  Proctor.  This  so  outraged  the  populace  that  they  broke 
the  window  of  the  station-house  and  would  have  pulled  it  down  had  not  the 
\  ice-Chancellor  interfered  on  behalf  of  Earnshaw.  The  Vice-Chancellor  had 
also  to  read  the  Riot  Act,  for  neither  Mayor  nor  Corporation  Magistrate  dare 
appear  to  do  it.  Afterwards  I  saw  Maberly  inarched  by  the  police  across 
Parker's  Piece  to  be  committed  to  prison,  but  the  populace  ran  on  before  and 
formed  so  dense  a  mass  at  the  Town  Gaol  door  that  the  police  could  not  efiPect 
an  entrance.  I  could  not  see  whether  violence  was  used  but  Maberly  was 
rescued  and  taken  by  the  mob  to  the  hustings,  from  whence  he  harangued 
them.  The  crowd  afterwards  conducted  Maberly  through  the  town,  bat 
what  became  of  him  I  do  not  know.  In  fact  I  can  make  neither  head  nor 
tail  of  the  cause  of  his  and  the  Senior  Proctor's  apprehension.  One  sickens 
at  the  sight  of  so  much  disorder. 

itf«  Holrwd  :  Memorials  of  the  Life  of 
Dr  Corrie,  p.  86  (1890). 

Oct,  28,  1840.  H.  Jones  of  this  College  [St  Catharine's]  and  Kemy 
Bailey  of  St  John's  called  on  me  to  ask  what  steps  I  thought  ought  to  be 
taken  to  induce  the  Undergraduates  to  stand  up  in  St  Mary's  daring  the 
singing,  instead  of  sitting,  as  they  now  do.  I  told  them  that  it  would  be 
best  to  niake  it  known  that  to  sit  during  the  singing  was  peculiar  to  Dissenters 
and  Presbyterians,  and  to  use  other  methods  of  persuasion  among  themselves ; 
but  by  no  means  to  ask  for  the  interference  of  the  public  authorities,  which 
they  seemed  inclined  to  do. 

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Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club. 
Oar  boats  in  the  Lent  Races  were  constituted  as  follows : 


Coach. 


First  Boat. 
P.  E.  Shaw 


Second  Boat. 
Coaches :  J.  A.  Cameron  and  S.  B.  Reid. 


St. 

Bow  A.  C.  Langmore ....  10 

2  H.C.  Langley 11 

3  T.L.Jackson ii 

4  H.£.  Knight 11 

5  W.  R.  Le Sueur....  12 

6  A.  £.  Buchanan  ....11 

7  F.  D.  Hessey 1 1 

Stroke  F.  J.  Allen ii 

Civr  H.  H.  Hayes   8 


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St. 

Bow  W.  Lamb  9 

2  W.  C.  laming 10 

3  C.  D.  Edwards 10 

4  W.  Mc  Dougall    ....  10 

5  G.  Blair 12 

6  C.  Moore   ..11 

7  A.  J.  Binns   10 

Stroke  J.  A.  Telford     10 

Cox  G.H.  Kilbum 8 


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First  Boat. 

^<77v— Wants  a  neater  finish  and  more  steadiness  over  the  stretcher.    He 
swings  well  in  a  race. 

7^^— Swings  out  much  better:  with  a  greater  knowledge  of  how  to  use 
his  legs  he  should  do  well. 

Three^Yiz&  improved  fast  and  taken  great  pains.    He  works  hard  in  a  race, 
but  his  swing  is  not  systematic. 

Four—\>oe&  not  get  on  his  work  at  once,  and  does  not  keep  his  blade 
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^'v^^Has  improved  his  finish.  He  gets  on  his  work  at  once,  but  by  swinging 
out  of  the  boat  cannot  use  the  last  part  of  the  swing. 

iS«? —Needs  more  swing  and  a  quicker  finish.  When  he  can  use  his  legs 
equally  he  will  be  a  useful  oar. 

^Snf^yy— Swings  well  and  backs  up  stroke.  His  blade  is  always  good.  He 
should  make  a  good  oar. 

Sirohe^W^  faults  are  a  bad  finish  and  a  short  swing  at  the  end  of  a  course. 
His  beginning  is  good  and  his  leg  work  good.  He  rowed  with  pluck 
every  night  of  the  races. 

Ctf^— Steered  with  judgment.    Helped  on  the  boat  by  his  keenness. 

Second  Boat. 
Bow — Works  well  for  his  weight  and  has  a  quick  finish,  but  rushes  too  fast 
after  his  hands. 

Tw^— Willing  worker,  but  inclined  to  be  a  bad  time-keeper, 

7i^r<ftf— Plugs  hard,  but  rushes  forward.    He  should  polish  up  his  finish. 

i^<wr— Neat  and  promising,  but  wants  longer  swing  and  more  sustained 
leg-work. 

jRwtf— Has  come  on  very  much  during  the  Term.  If  he  can  acquire  a  longer 
swing  all  over  the  course  he  will  do  well. 

«SiJir— Rowed  consistently,  but  did  not  come  on  as  was  at  one  time  hoped. 

Seven  —Works  hard  and  gets  a  good  beginning,  but  his  shoulders  should  go 
further  back  at  the  end  of  the  stroke. 

Stroke -l^smeidi  with  determination;  a  good  stroke.  His  legs  might  be 
more  used  in  swinging  forward. 

CoX'-OvL  his  little  experience  did  well.    Should  be  of  service  in  the  future. 

Both  boats  improved  rapidly  towards  the  races,  and  turned 
out  fairly  fast  crews.  The  First  Boat  were  an  exceptionally 
heavy  crew.  R.  H.  Forster  and  L.  H.  K.  Bushe-Fox  came  up 
and  coached  the  boats  on  several  occasions,  and  on  the 
Saturday  before  the  races  N.  P.  Symonds  took  the  First  Boat. 

March  4.  The  races  commenced  in  very  windy  weather. 
In  the  Second  Division  the  Second  Boat  got  a  bad  start,  and 
Selwyn  got  within  10  ft.  Our  men,  however,  soon  settled  down, 
and,  rowing  grandly,  ran  into  Clare  just  round  Ditton. 

The  First  Boat  starting  second  on  the  river,  soon  deprived 
Trinity  Hall  of  the  "  headship."  L.M.B.C.  I  gained  from  the 
start,  and  rowing  well  together,  caught  Hall  at  the  Red  Grind. 

March  5.  The  Second  Boat  caught  Cavendish  just  round 
Ditton,  but  in  the  imenviable  position  of  "sandwich  boat" 
failed  to  make  a  bump  in  the  First  Division. 

The  First  Boat  rowed  over  **  head  of  the  river." 

March  6.  The  Second  Boat  rowed  over,  well  away  from 
Cavendish.    They  failed  to  make  a  bump  in  the  First  Division. 

The  First  Boat  started  well,  and  kept  out  of  their  distance 
until  the  Willows.  In  the  rough  water  up  the  Long  Reach, 
however,  they  failed  to  keep  swinging,  and  fell  to  Corpus  at  the 
'Pike  and  Eel.' 

March  7.  The  Second  Boat  rowed  over  head  of  the  Second 
and  bottom  of  the  First  Division. 


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The  First  Boat  gained  on  Corpus,  but  fell  to  First  Trinity  just 
before  the  Railway  Bridge,  after  a  good  race. 

The  nett  result  of  the  Races  was  a  loss  of  one  place  by  the 
First  Boat  and  a  gain  of  two  places  by  the  Second. 

Besides  the  Lent  boats  several  Eights  were  out  on  the 
river  daily,  and  on  Saturday  February  21  these  Eights  raced 
against  each  other.  The  races  took  place  abreast  in  the 
Long  Reach  and  produced  some  exciting  struggles  and  many 
"  crabs."    llie  following  crew  was  successful : 


G.  H.  Kilbam  Bow 

2 

K  W.  MacBridc 

3 

A.  A.  Economo 

4 

L.  R.  Saunders 

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H.  S.  WUlcocks 

R.  T.  Smith 

7 

W.  T.  S.  BytheU 
J.  H.  Fraser 

Stroke 

Cox 

A.  H.  Nairegaard 

Bateman  Pain : — Only  two  crews  entered.    The  race  took  place 
on  February  21,  and  produced  a  good  finish : 


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Wallis  and  Reid  won  by  a  length. 

We  had  a  Third  Boat  entered  for  the  "  getting-on "  races, 
but  they  succumbed  to  Jesus  III  and  Clare  II  in  the  first 
heat.  We  condole  with  the  men,  as  they  tried  hard  and 
were  very  keen.  They  were  a  very  light  crew,  and  were  as 
follows : 

T.  H.  Pegg  Bow 

2  W.  £.  Cameron 

3  L.  B.  Burnett 

4  C.  £.  Fynes-Clinton 

5  W.  Haslett 

6  W.  Lewis 

7  A.  Brooke 
Stroke.    W.  B.  Morton 

Cox    A.  N.  Wilkins 

The  Cambridge  Review  of  March  5  contains  an  article  on 
Forster  and  Harris's  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club 
by  Sir  Patrick  Colquhoun,  who  remarks  that  the  work  *  contains 
a  great  deal  more  than  the  title  would  imply,'  as  the  Authors 
*have  either  wittingly  or  otherwise  given  a  history  of  the 
rise  and  progress  of  rowing  in  the  University  and  thereby 
rendered  it  a  valuable  Academic  Record.'  Sir  Patrick  proceeds 
to  give  many  most  interesting  reminiscences  of  the  early 
days  of  Cambridge  rowing. 


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Cricket  Club. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  above  held  on  Thursday  Febraary  5, 
the  following  Officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  season : 

Captain'-^.  H.  C.  Fegan.  Secretary-,Y,  J.  Nicholls.  Committee^ 
H.  Roughton,  H.  Wilcox,  A.  E.  Elliott,  J.  Sanger,  C.  H.  Tovey. 

Rugby  Union  Football  Club. 

Since  our  last  number  was  issued,  only  one  match  has  been 
brought  oflf.  On  Monday  February  2,  Middlesex  Hospital 
paid  us  a  visit,  and  gave  us  an  excellent  game.  The  scoring 
was  2  goals  to  1  goal  i  try  in  our  favour,  but  the  result  was 
doubtful  right  up  to  the  call  of  time.  Forward,  the  Hospital 
more  than  held  their  own,  but  our  backs  were  able  to  equalise 
matters.    Powys  especially  distinguished  himself. 

The  following  compose  the  team,  an  extra  colour  being 
given  since  one  or  two  old  members  were  unable  to  play  in 
most  of  the  matches : 

R.  A,  Draper  (backWHas  improved  in  kicking,  though  still  rather  slow  ; 
stops  a  rush  well  and  is  an  excellent  collar. 

y,  H,  C,  Fegan  (three-quarteis)— A  smart  centre,  passes  and  kicks  very 
well,  runs  strongly,  but  lacks  defence. 

F,  L,  Roe  (three-quarters)— Has  much  improved  during  the  season.    Makes 

good  use  of  his  pace,  but  should  practise  kicking ;  has  an  unfortunate 
preference  for  collaring  from  behind,  though  he  can  tackle  when  he 
likes. 

G.  F.  Powys  (three-quarters)— Fast  and  dodgy,  but  loses  many  a  chance 

by  missing  passes ;  a  poor  kick  but  fair  collar. 

T.  L.  Jackson  (half)— Knows  the  game,  and  very  seldom  loses  a  chance; 
collars  and  kicks  well,  and  plays  an  excellent  passing  game.  Not  fast^ 
but  an  artful  dodger,  and  very  frequently  scores. 

E*  Ealand  (half)— Plays  a  very  plucky  game,  passes  well  from  the  scrum, 
a  good  tackier,  and  stops  rushes  very  well ;  should  learn  to  kick. 

A.  71  Wallis  (Capt.)— Excellent  all  round  forward.  Shoves  hard  in  the 
scrum  and  tackles  strongly;  runs  well,  and  out  of  touch  rises  to  the 
occasion. 

y,  P.  M.  Blaciett—Hns  more  than  kept  up  his  old  form.  Useful  in  the 
loose  and  a  good  collar. 

A,  £,  Elliott.^YvnUmt  forward,  plays  with  plenty  of  dash ;  as  good  in 

the  loose  as  he  is  out  of  touch. 

y.  Lupton—Flsiys  his  own  game,  but  does  so  to  good  purpose.  Too  much 
inclined  to  play  a  wing  game.  Very  useful  in  the  loose,  tackles  well, 
and  can  take  a  pass. 

B,  Long—Haxd  working  forward,  collars  well,  and  is  always  on  the  ball; 

should  learn  to  dribble. 

C,  D,  Edwards  ^Another  hard  worker,  uses  his  weight  and  his  feet  well 

in  the  scrum,  slow  in  the  loose  but  tackles  well. 

O.  Longman^A  useful  forward  and  fair  three-quarters.  Tackles  well  and 
runs  pluckily.    With  practice  will  make  a  first-rate  forward. 


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G,  R.  y<?yff— Energetic  forward,  collars  well,  and  is  fair  out  of  toacb ; 

needs  practice  in  dribbling. 
y,  y.  Robimon^K  sterling  forward,  needs  confidence  and  dash.    Works 

hard,  and  is^a  very  good  dribbler. 

£,  F.  Gedye^X  light  forward,  but  plays  up  hard ;  has  a  good  idea  of  passing 
out  to  the  backs,  always  in  the  middle  of  the  scnun>  and  fair  in  the 
loose. 

The  Second  Team  has  been  decidedly  above  the  average, 
and  some  of  them  will  probably  run  the  freshmen  hard  for 
their  colours  next  year.  Lord,  Harding,  Kendall,  and  Kidd 
played  in  several  First  Team  matches. 

The  team  was  unfortunate  in  losing  the  services  of  their 
Captain  near  the  end  of  the  season.  After  playing  regularly 
for  the  'Varsity,  Wallis  received  an  injury  which  prevented 
his  playing  for  the  rest  of  the  season. 

Association  Football  Club. 

As  several  of  our  last  Term's  team  were  training  for  the 
College  Sports  and  others  had  gone  down,  only  two  matches 
were  played  this  Term,  with  the  following  results : 
Opponents,  Result.  Goals, 

Christ's Won 6....  I 

Emmanuel    • .Won  ........ 3 .... 2 

This  altogether  makes  a  total  of  15  matches  played  during 
the  season,  of  which  14  have  been  won  and  i  lost,  a  record  more 
favourable  than  the  College  has  been  able  to  boast  of  for  several 
years  past,  and  one  which  reflects  very  great  credit  on  every 
member  of  the  team.  This  success  has  been  due  in  no  small 
measure  to  the  keenness  shown  by  every  individual  member  of 
the  XI.  This  might  be  copied  with  advantage  by  some  of  the 
2nd  XI. 

H.  Sargent  (goal) —An  excellent  goal-keeper  on  his  day  but  somewhat 
uncertain.    Fairly  excelled  himself  in  Cup  Ties. 

€•  H,  Tovey  (back)  — Has  made  a  very  good  Captain,  and  is  to  b6 
congratulated  upon  the  success  which  has  attended  his  efforts.  Good 
and  keeu  back,  kicks  and  tackles  well,  improved  greatly  since  last 
season. 

G,  C  Jackson  fback)— Has  plaved  consistently  well  throughout  the  season. 
A  hard  kick,  with  good  tackling  powers.    Volleys  beautifully. 

Z>.  Stephens  (half-back|— The  pick  of  the  halves ;  works  hard  and  knows  how 
to  use  his  bead.    Should  be  careful  not  to  interfere  with  his  other  halves. 

H,  Gardiner  (half-back)— Neat  half,  tackles  well  and  passes  accurately,  but 
painfully  slow. 

A.  W,  White  (half-back)— Has  improved  greatly  during  the  season.  Tackles 
splendidly,  but  should  feed  his  forwards  better  and  be  more  careful  where 
he  kicks. 

J.  H.  Reeves  (outside  right)— The  fastest  forward  in  the  team,  and  the  pick 
of  the  new  choices.  Dribbles  and  passes  well,  but  should  learn  to  centre 
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H.  Roughton  (inside  right) — Hardworking  energetic  forward.  Possesses  the 
happy  knack  of  keeping  his  forwards  well  together.  Passes  with  great 
accuracy  and  occasionally  shoots  well. 

W,  H,  Skene  (centre  forward) — A  very  fair  centre  forward,  feeds  his  wing 
men  accurately  and  uses  his  head  well.  A  poor  shot  at  goal  and  rather 
too  fond  of  getting  *  off-side.* 

H.  C,  Barraclouph  (inside  left)— An  excellent  forward  with  knowledge  of  the 
game,  has  plenty  of  pace  and  good  shooting  powers.  Has  scored  more 
goals  than  all  the  rest  of  the  team  put  together. 

C,  Wdllis  (outside  left)— Hardworking  forward  with  plenty  of  weight  and 
occasionally  pace.  Should  learn  to  centre  with  his  left  foot.  Poor  shot 
at  goal. 

The  Scratch  Sixes  secured  more  entries  than  usual,  and  were 
won  after  a  hard-'fonght  game  by  the  following  six : 
H.  Gardiner  (Capt.j 
T.  E.  Sandall 
J.  J.  Gillespie 
R.  A.  Draper 
£.  £.  Bland 
R.  W.  Lewis 

General  Athletic  Club. 

At  a  general  meeting  held  on  February  19  it  was  decided 
to  accept  an  oflfer  made  by  the  University  Swimming  Club 
by  which  each  member  of  the  Amalgamation  becomes  a  member 
of  the  C.  U.  S.  C.  on  the  payment  of  2/6  per  year.  This 
arrangement  is  especially  satisfactory,  as  it  has  been  decided 
by  that  Club  to  exclude  all  those  who  are  not  yearly  subscribers. 
I'hose  who  are  not  already  Life  Members  are  of  course  exempt 
from  the  yearly  payment. 

At  the  commencement  of  term  the  Committee  consisted 
of  the  following  members :  Mr.  R.  F.  Scott,  President,  Mr  A. 
Harker,  Treasurer,  Mr  J.  E.  Marr,  the  three  Senior  Members ; 
and  the  following  Captains  of  Clubs,  P.  E.  Shaw,  L.M.B.C. ; 
A.  S,  Wallis,  R.U.F.C. ;  C.  H.  Tovey,  A.F.C. ;  H.  Roughton. 
C.  C. ;  J.  Lupton,  L.C.;  C.  E.  Owen,  L.T.C. ;  J.  H.  C.  Fegan. 
A.C. ;  F.  J.  Nicholls,  Junior  Member ;  T.  L.  Jackson,  Secretary, 

We  very  much  regret  to  say  that  Mr  Harker  has  resigned 
the  post  of  Treasurer,  which  has  never  been  more  ably  filled : 
the  Club  is  much  indebted  to  him  for  his  kind  services,  and 
wishes  to  tender  him  its  hearty  thanks  for  the  time  and  trouble 
he  has  bestowed  on  its  interests. 

Athletic  Clitb. 

The  Sports  held  on  Thursday  and  Friday,  Februaiy  19  and 
20th,  were  not  remarkable  for  anything  at  all  brilliant,  though 
some  of  the  results  were  fair.  The  Strangers'  Race  (120  yards 
handicap),  run  in  three  heats,  was  well  contested.  In  the  first 
heat  Thorpe,  Corpus,  scratch,  beat  Scowcroft,  Caius,  2  yards, 
by  I  foot,  in  12  J  seconds.  The  second  heat  was  a  walk  over 
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for  Weigall,  Emmanuel,  2  yards,  and  Baines,  Trinity  Hal!, 
4  yards.  The  third  fell  to  Gillett.  Downing,  5  yards,  in 
12J  seconds:  Hedges,  Selwyn,  2  yards,  being  second.  In  the 
final  Scowcroft  got  a  splendid  start  and  reached  home  first,  ^ 

4  feet  ahead  of  Thorpe.    Time,  12  2-5  seconds.  ^ 

First  Day.  \ 

200  Yard%  Boating  MerCs  Handicap. — W.  McDougall,  6  yards  start,  I ; 
A.  C.  Langmore,  scratch,  2 ;  won  by  four  yards ;  time,  '22  4-5tli  sec, 

300    Yards  Handicap,  ^1.  J.  Gillespie,  20  yards  start,  i;    C.  Moore, 

17  yards,  2 ;  won  by  a  yard ;  time,  34  2- 5th  sec. 

Putting  the  Weight,^K,  W.  White,  31ft.  yin.,  I ;  S.  R.  Trotman, 
.31ft.  44in.,  2. 

100  Yards  Race.^ First  Heat:  A.  W.  White,  penalised  3  yards,  i; 
G.  E.  Warren,  2 ;  won  by  a  foot ;  time  1 1  2 -5th  sec.  Second  Heat:  H.  W. 
CatJing,  I ;  £.  A.  Kendall,  2 ;  won  by  6  inches;  time,  11  i-5th  sec 

120  Yards  Handicap.-- First  Heat:  T.  Waite,  6  yards  start,  I ;  A.  W. 
White,  scratch,  2;  won  by  two  yards;  time,  12  3- 5th  sec.  Second  Heat: 
¥.  G.  E.  Field,  8  yards,  i ;  £.  A.  Kendall,  4  yards,  2  ;  won  by  a  foot ;  time, 
12  4-sth  sec.  7hifd  Heat :  G.  E.  Warren,  3  yards,  i ;  A.  Earl,  8  yards,  2 ; 
won  by  a  foot ;  time,  12  4-5th  sec. 

Quarter  Mile  Race.^C  C.  Lord,  I;  H.  Ronghton,  2;  Lord  led 
throughout  and  won  by  4  yards ;  time,  55  4 -5th  sees. 

High  yump.^A,  W.  White,  5ft.  iin.,  i ;  S.  R.  Trotman,  5ft.,  2. 

120  Yards  Hurdle  Race.-^S.  R.  Trotman,  penalised  3  yards,  I ;  G.  E. 
Warren,  2 ;  Trotman  took  the  lead  at  the  sixth  hurdle,  and  won  by  a  jrard 
and  a  half;  time,  19  i-5th  sec. 

One  Mile  Race.—C  Wallis,  I ;  C.  Goodman,  2 ;  Goodman  took  the  lead 
■  at  the  half-distance,  and  maintained  it  until  twenty  yards  from  home,  when 
.  Wallis  dashed  to  the  front,  and  won  by  five  yards ;  time,  5min.  6sec. 

120  Yards  Strangers'  Handicap.^ First  Heat:  C.  H.  Thorpe,  Corpus, 
scratch,  i ;  H.  E.  Scowcroft,  Caius,  2  yards  start,  2;  F.  Ranson,  Emmannd, 

1  3^ard,  o;  W.  J.  Goodwin,  Clare,  4^  yards,  o;  won  by  a  foot,  the  others 
being  close  up;  time,  I24sec.     Secona  Heat :  G.  J.  V.  Weigall,  Emmanuel, 

2  yards,  and  C.  T.  Baines,  Trinity  Hall,  4  yards,  walk  over.  Third  Heat : 
H'.  Gillett.  Downing,  5  yards,  i ;  ±*.  D.  Hedges,  Selwyn,  2  yards,  2 ;  M.  B. 
Bolton,  Emmanuel,  3^  yards,  O;  Gillett  led  aU  the  way  and  won  by  four 
yards:  time,  I2)sec. 

Second  Day. 

Three  Miles  Handicap.^C  D.  Edwards,  saatch,  i;  S.  R.  Squires, 
200  yards  start,  2 ;  C.  Goodman,  50  yards,  3.  Won  by  thirty  yards,  Goodman 
being  over  two  hundred  yards  further  behind.    Time,  16  min.  19  sec. 

Throwing  the  Hammer, ^^OiAy  S.  R,  Trotman,  pen.  loft.,  75  ft.  I  in.^ 
competed. 

100  Yards  Race.^Final  Heat :  G.  E.  Warren,  I ;  A.  W.  White,  pen. 

3  yards,  2.  A  good  race  resulted  in  favour  of  Warren  by  half  a  foot. 
Time,  ii  sec, 

120  Yards  Handicap,— Final  Heat :  T.  Waite,  6  yards  start,  I ;  F.  G.  E. 
Field,  8  yards,  2 ;  A.  W.  White,  scratch,  3.  Won  by  half  a  yard,  inches 
dividing  second  and  third.    Time,  12\  sec. 

200  Yards  Freshmen's  Race.^G.  E.  Warren,  I ;  A.  C.  Langmore,  2. 
Won  by  two  yards.     Time,  22  2-5th  sec. 

Long  yump.^S.  R.  Trolman,  18  ft.  4I  in.,  i ;  A,  W.  White,  pen.  10  in., 

18  ft.  7J  in.,  2. 


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Half  Mile  Handicap. —K,  E.  Elliott,  38  yards,  i;  J.  J.  Gillespie, 
45  yards,  ,2 ;  C.  C.  Lord,  28  yards,  3.  Elliott  went  to  the  front  four  hundlred 
yards  from  home,  and  won  by  three  yards,  four  between  second  and  third. 
Time,  2  min.  8  2-5th  sec. 

120  Yards  Strangers*  Handicap, — Final  Heat :  H.  E.  Scowcroft,  Caius, 
2  yards  start,  i ;  G.  H.  Thorpe,  Corpas,  scratch,  2  ;  G.  J.  V.  Weigall, 
Emmanuel,  2  yards,  o ;  P.  D.  Hedges,  Selwyn,  2  yards,  o ;  E.  T.  Baines, 
Trinity  Hall,  4  yards,  o;  H.  Gillett,  Downing,  5  yards,  o.  Scowcroft 
assumed  the  lead  thirty  yards  from  home,  and  won  by  four  feet,'  the  others 
close  together,  about  two  yards  behind  Thorpe.    Time,  12  2-5th  sec. 

200  Yards  College  Servants*  Race.^J.  CoUins,  scratch,  I ;  J.  Wallman* 
10  yards  start,  2.     Won  by  two  yards.    Time,  24  2  5th  sec. 

W.  A.  Long  won,  on  March  3,  the  Four  Miles  Open  Road 
Handicap  of  the  C.  U.  Hare  and  Hounds  Club.  He  had 
a  start  of  2m.  issec. 

Eaglb  Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

The  following  have  been  elected  to  the  Club  this  Term; 
D.  E,  Frossard,  A.  W.  White,  H.  Wilcox. 

Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

The  Double  Tennis  Ties  were  won  this  Term  by  C.  E.  Owen 
and  C.  P.  Way,  the  runners-up  being  J.  Lupton  and  C.  H. 
Blomfield. 

Lacrosse  Club. 

It  is  our  painful  duty  to  record  that  the  present  prospects 
of  the  Lacrosse  Club  are  decidedly  unpromising.  Ihe  fresh 
members  who  joined  last  Term  have  for  the  most  part  not 
continued  to  play,  and  the  practices  are  very  poorly  attended ; 
unless  a  sudden  increase  of  interest  in  the  game  takes  place, 
it  seems  probable  that  it  will  die  out  in  the  'Varsity  altogether. 
Those  who  understand  the  game  as  it  should  be,  cannot 
account  for  the  fact  that  it  is  not  taken  up  in  earnest  as 
others  are.  Why  will  not  players  who  come  up  continue 
their  play  here,  and  so  help  to  raise  the  standard,  instead  of 
backing  out  on  the  flimsiest  of  excuses  ? 

The  College  has  only  played  one  match  this  Term,  v  Leys 
School  (without  masters)  and  lost  (5-0).  Lupton,  Warren, 
and  Sandall  played  well,  but  our  attack  was  too  unpractised 
to  score. 

Grenville  and  Warren  have  received  their  College  colours. 

4TH  Camb.  (Univ.)  Volunteer  Battalion:  The  Suffolk 
Regiment. 

B  Company, 
Up  to  the  time  of  writing  there  has  not  been  much  doing  in 
the  Volunteer  world.  As  the  new  'Equipment'  does  not 
include  skates  we  were  unable  to  have  any  drills  in  the  earlier 
part  of  the  Term,  and  when  the  frost  went  men  were  wanted  for 
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The  Company  Cup  of  the  Tenn  has  been  won  by  Private 
Reeves  with  a  score  of  79. 

Both  Reeves  and  Cordeaux  have  been  shooting  well.  They 
were  in  the  winning  Scratch  Four  in  January,  and  in  the 
'Series  A'  Competition  Reeves  got  th^  second  and  Cordeaux 
the  third  prize. 

The  Colonel  has  at  last  issued  the  Report  for  the  Volunteer 
year  of  j  890.  From  it  we  learn  officially  that  B  Company  has 
four  marksmen — Captain  Hill,  Lance-Corporals  Nunns  and 
Cordeaux,  and  Bugler  Leathes.  Mr  Nunns'  score  is  third  on  the 
list,  being  only  three  points  behind  that  of  Mr  A.  P.  Humphry, 
our  former  Commanding  Officer.  A  detachment  is  to  proceed  to 
Aldershot  on  March  17  and  another  is  to  join  the  Inns  of 
Court  in  a  route  march  for  the  Easter  Manoeuvres.  The 
Inspection  will  take  place  next  Term  on  Tuesday,  May  5. 
Major  Riddell,  our  Adjutant,  leaves  us  before  then,  and  his 
place  is  to  be  taken  by  Captain  H.  Earle  D.S.O.,  of  the 
Yorkshire  Light  Infantry.  Captain  Earle  is  an  Etonian  and  an 
Oxonian  and  has  seen  much  active  service. 


Debating  Society. 

President^Qc.  D.  Kempt.      Vice^President^A,  J.  Pitkin.     Tretuurtr-^ 

J.  £.  Purvis.     Secretary ^V^ ,   B.  Morton*      Committee^'B.,    £.  Mason, 
.  J.  Gillespie. 

During  the  Term  the  Society  has  received  an  increasing 
amount  of  support  from  members  of  the  College,  the  debates 
have  been  well  attended  and  well  sustained.  In  particular 
the  motions  on  "Compulsory  Chapels"  and  "Social  Clubs'* 
created  a  large  amount  of  interest,  and  brought  together 
crowded  houses.  On  the  latter  occasion  Lecture-^Room  VI 
was  well  filled,  and  the  proceedings  were  very  lively  indeed. 
During  the  Term  the  Committee  has  been  occupied  with 
the  proposal  to  introduce  smoking  during  debates,  as  is  the 
practice  in  most  other  Colleges.  Honourable  members  have 
been  asked,  politely  but  firmly,  to  append  their  signatures 
to  voting  papers  on  the  question,  and  are  wondering  if  any 
tangible  result  is  to  follow.  This  depends  on  the  decision 
of  the  Higher  Court,  the  College  authorities,  to  whom  the 
matter  is  now  transferred. 

The  debates  were  as  follows : 

January  24 — "That  in  the  opinion  of  this  House  the 
general  policy  of  the  present  Government  is  deserving  of 
severe  condemnation."  Proposed  by  H.  E.  Long.  Opposed 
by  A.  P.  Bender.    Lost  by  the  President's  casting  vote. 

January  31 — "That  this  House  approves  of  the  social 
remedy  suggested  by  the  Author  of  In  Darkest  England^^ 
Proposed  by  R.  E.  Baker.  Opposed  by  F.  G.  Given- Wilson. 
Carried  by  10  to  9. 


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February  7 — "That  this  House  approves  of  the  modern 
movement  in  favour  of  women's  rights."  Proposed  by  P.  Green. 
Opposed  by  J.  E.  Purvis.     Lost  by  9  to  10. 

February  14 — "That  this  House  condemns  the  present 
system  of  Compulsory  Chapels."  Proposed  by  F.  D.  Hessey. 
Opposed  by  C.  E.  Fynes-Clinton.     Carried  by  24  to  2 1 . 

Fehtuary  2 1— "  That  in  the  present  state  of  psychical  research 
the  existence  of  ghosts  is  undeniable."  Proposed  by  H.  Drake. 
Opposed  by  R.  E.  Baker.     Carried  by  6  to  4. 

February  28— "That  in  the  opinion  of  this  House  the 
existence  of  Social  Clubs  is  injurious  to  the  best  interests 
of  the  College."  Proposed  by  H.  E.  Mason.  Opposed  by 
F.  M.  Smith.    Lost  by  17  to  37. 

The  average  attendance  was  50. 


Musical  Society. 

Officers  for  the  Lent  and  May  Terms : 

Prtsident^Tit  Sandys.  Tr^amr^r— Rev  A.  J.  Stevens  M.A.  Secretary  -^ 
F.  W.  Camegy.  Assistant  Secntary—K,  CoUinson.  Commiitee—F,  M. 
Smith,  A.  B.  F.  Cole,  F.  D.  Sturgess. 

This  Society  is  to  be  congratulated  on  having  at  last 
definitely  decided  to  hold  the  May  Concert  in  the  College 
Hall.  The  Master  and  Fellows  have  kindly  granted  permission 
for  the  use  of  the  Hall  and  also  of  the  Combination-Room 
for  the  occasion,  and  the  Committee  intend  to  do  their  best 
to  %iyQ  Members  of  the  Society  and  their  friends  a  very 
pleasant  evening  on  Friday  June  12,  on  which  date  it  has 
been  decided  to  hold  the  Concert.  We  much  regret  the 
loss  of  Dr  Garrett's  valuable  services,  but  he  could  not  bring 
himself  to  look  kindly  on  the  change  which  had  been  brought 
about,  and  so  he  sent  in  his  resignation  as  conductor.  Th& 
Committee  asked  him  to  reconsider  his  decision,  but  in  vain, 
and  so  nothing  was  left  to  be  done  but  to  accept  his  resignation 
and  look  out  for  another  conductor.  The  Committee  then 
met  and  decided  to  ask  Mr  A.  S.  Tetley  (a  member  of  the 
College)  to  conduct  us.  We  are  glad  to  say  he  has  kindly 
consented  to  do  so.  and  already  the  Chorus  have  made 
great  improvement  under  his  able  leadership.  We  think  that 
there  can  be  no  doubt  but  that  our  May  Concert  will  be  a 
great  success,  and  will  be  much  appreciated. 

On  Saturday  January  24  the  Society  gave  their  "Popular 
Concert"  in  the  Guildhall;  A  good  programme  had  been 
arranged,  and  in  spite  of  the  wet  evening  there  was  a  large 
audience.  The  President  Dr  Sandys  was  in  the  chair,  and 
did  much  towards  making  the  Concert  a  success. 


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There  have  been  two  Smoking  Concerts  given  this  Term  in 
Lecture  Room  VI,  which  is  now  far  too  small  to  accommodate 
all  who  would  like  to  be  present.  We  are  very  glad  to  see 
that  the  College  keeps  up  its  interest  in  these  Concerts,  and 
from  the  number  of  guests  from  other  colleges  who  have 
come  to  them  and  who  are  always  welcome,  we  can  only 
.conclude  that  our  Smokers  have  become  well-known  and 
are  much  enjoyed  by  University  men  in  general. 

Mr  Tanner  and  Mr  Flux  very  kindly  presided  at  the  two 
Concerts,  and  we  hope  that  we  may  often  see  them  again 
in  the  capacity  of  Chairman  at  our  Smoking  Concerts. 

The  funds  of  the  Society  are  fairly  good,  but  not  so  good 
as  was  expected.  Those  Members  who  have  not  paid  their 
subscriptions  are  earnestly  requested  to  pay  them  as  soon 
as  possible. 

ToYNBEE  Hall. 

Members  of  the  College  willing  to  subscribe  to  Toynbee 
Hall  are  reminded  that  subscriptions  for  this  year  should  be 
paid  before  the  close  of  this  Term  either  to  Mr  G.  C.  M.  Smith 
or  to  the  account  of  the  '  Universities  Settlements  Association.' 
London  and  County  Bank,  Cambridge  Branch. 

Theological  Society. 

Meetings  were  held  on  January  22  and  29,  and  February  5, 
12,  19,  and  26  in  the  rooms  of  B.  Long,  W.  H.  Harding, 
C.  E.  Fynes-Clinton,  A.  Baines,  P.  C.  Kingsford,  and  H.  C. 
Lees. 

The  following  papers  were  read : 

Historical  sketch  of  the  A,  V.,  by  P.  G.  Smith. 

Jewish  History  from  the  Exile  to  Christ,  by  J.  H.  Adeney. 

Are  the  Patriarchs  Historical  Persons  ?  by  Mr  Watson. 

Marcion,  by  W.  Nutley. 

Mahotnetanism,  by  C.  P.  Way. 

The  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity  has  promised  to  read 
a  paper  next  term. 

The  officers  for  next  term  are : 

Prgsidene—W.  J.  Caldwell.  Treasurer--^,  G.  Smith.  Secretary^ 
H.  C.  Lees.    Committie^C,  P.  Way,  W.  Nutley. 

The  College  Mission. 

Work  at  the  Mission  has  been  carried  on  during  the  early 
part  of  this  Term  under  difficulties,  owing  to  ^lr  Phillips 
being  laid  up  for  some  three  weeks  with  severe  colds.  The  last 
three  months  have  been  a  period  of  considerable  anxiety  to  the 
Missioner  and  all  friends  of  the  Mission,  owing  to  the  continued 
illness  of  Mrs  Phillips. 

The  unusual  prevalence  of  "  London  Fogs,"  the  prolonged 
frost  and  the  biting  winds,  have  made  visiting  in  the  various 
*•  Buildings  "  no  easy  matter.    It  is  satisfactory  to  find,  however. 


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that,  even  in  the  coldest  weather,  the  Church  is  perfectly  warm 
and  comfortable.  Another  source  of  gratification  is  the  large 
use  that  has  been  made  of  our  cast-off  clothes  store ;  and  we 
hope  that  members  of  the  College  will  be  liberal  next  Term 
when  the  old-clothes  bag  comes  round.  Very  useful  also  have 
been  the  gifts  for  the  sick  and  poor,  among  whom  the  distress 
during  this  long  winter  has  been  unusually  great. 

The  Terminal  Meeting  was  held  on  Tuesday,  February  3,  in 
Lecture  Room  VI,  Professor  Mayor  presiding  in  the  absence  of 
the  Master,  who  was  unable  to  come  owing  to  the  short  notice 
given  of  the  Meeting.  The  members  of  the  College  present 
were  addressed  by  Dr  Moorhouse,  Bishop  of  Manchester,  an 
old  Johnian,  who  gave  the  meeting  the  benefit  of  his  experience 
as  an  organiser  of  missions  when  Vicar  of  Paddington,  which 
parish  he  had  connected  with  eight  poor  districts  in  Hoxton. 
Neither  of  the  Missioners  was  able  to  attend. 

During  the  Christmas  Vacation  several  junior  members  of 
the  College  visited  the  Mission,  and  a  successful  concert  was 
given  there  on  Boxing-night  under  the  auspices  of  Messrs  Rice, 
Collison,  and  Reeves.  A  concert  was  given  on  Monday,  Jan.  12, 
at  Honor  Oak  Park  by  members  of  the  College,  realising 
over /^i 8,  which  was  devoted  to  the  sick  and  poor  fund.  We 
have  to  thank  the  following  gentlemen  for  their  kindness  in 
taking  part  in  the  concert — Rev  J.  C.  R.  Gale,  Vicar  of 
Christ  Church,  Sutton,  Messrs  Camegy,  Given-Wilson,  Collison, 
and  Rice. 

There  is  now  a  Mission  Lady  doing  very  good  and  useful 
work  in  the  district,  but  more  lay  help  is  still  needed. 

The  Committee  are  anxious  that  it  should  not  be  supposed 
that,  because  there  are  rumours  of  endowment,  we  shall  be 
better  off  financially,  since  now  that  we  are  a  parish  certain 
grants  which  were  made  so  long  as  we  were  a  mission  district, 
and  were  a  great  help,  have  ceased.  All  that  we  shall  have  will 
be  a  definite  but  small  income  as  a  basis;  and  we  shall  still 
require  all  the  aid  that  we  can  obtain  to  keep  the  work 
progressing.  There  is  much  that  ought  to  be  done  now,  that 
remains  untouched  owing  to  our  lack  of  funds. 

In  the  last  number  of  the  Eagle  we  stated  incorrectly  that 
the  donation  from  the  Fishmongers'  Company  was  specially 
given  to  the  Vicarage  Building  Fund :  we  find  that  it  was  given 
to  the  General  Fund. 

Several  members  of  the  College  have  stated  their  intention  of 
visiting  the  Mission  in  the  Easter  Vacation;  we  take  this 
opportunity  of  mentioning  that  there  are  still  several  days 
towards  the  end  of  the  vacation  free  for  any  one  who  may  wish 
to  go  down. 

The  new  members  of  Committee  are  A.  E.  Buchanan, 
P.  Green,  and  G.  R.  Joyce. 


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INDEX  TO   THE    EAGLE, 

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magazine,  and  hope  to  have  it  ready  for  issue  by 
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with  the  original  articles,  poetry,  and  the  like;  the 
second  dealing  with  Our  Chronicle.  In  the  latter 
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and  under  the  headings  of  the  several  College  Clubs 
and  Societies  are  alphabetical  lists  of  all  who  are 
mentioned  in  connexion  with  each.  The  Index  will 
thus  serve  as  a  clue  to  the  history  of  the  College  and 
its  members  during  the  thirty-one  years  1858 — 1889, 
and  its  value  to  all  Johnians  is  beyond  question.  It 
has  cost  both  pains  and  money  to  prepare;  but  the 
Editors  feel  that  these  have  been  well  bestowed. 
They  look  to  members  of  the  College  for  aid  in  meeting 
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OUR   CHRONICLE. 


\*  Additional  references  to  names  will  be  found  under  the  several  Clubs, 
Obituafy,  etc. 


Abbott  E  A— ii  205  319.    iii  181  S40. 

vii  360.    (Rev^  ix  250.    x  60  1 19. 

xi54.    (Dr)xiii3i337i.    XV498. 
Ackroyd  E— xi  56  58.    xii  185. 
Acton  E  H— xii  186  310  374.    xiii  52 

109  228  229.    xiv  48  52.    XV  265. 
Adam  C  W  M— xiii  372.    x  187. 
Adams  A->viii  62  185  371  372.    ix 

250. 
Adams  F  H— vii  123  169  361.    Tiii 

185  255. 
Adams  G  H— v  125. 
Adams  H  B— viii  123. 
Adams  H  T— x  245  246.    xi  54  55  125. 
Adams  J  C  (Prof)— vii  360.    viii  370 

371.    ix  1S4.    xii  309.    xiv  246. 

XV  184  520. 
Adams  S—viii  62. 
Adams  T— vi  367.    vii  123  169  170 

360361.    viii  62  185  255.    ix32S. 

X  117.     xii  305  372.     xiii  371. 

XV  50. 
Adams  W  G  (Prof) — iv  248.    viii  122 

184.    xiv  406.    XV  50  266  267. 
AdamsonCE— vi  189.    vii  170.    ix 

120. 
Adamson  E— ix  185  186. 
Adamson  E  M  J— x  3 1 2. 
Adamson  J— xv  394. 
Addison  C— xi  247. 
Adeney  F  F— xiv  126  127  189  192 

193254271415.    XV  59. 
Adland  J  E— xiii  297. 
Agabeg  A— iii  303. 
Agnew  G  W— ix  60. 
Aickin  G  E— xv  123  284. 
Ainger  G  H  (Dr)-xii  55  122  183. 
Ainger  W  H— xiv  193  270  413. 
Akenside  Mark— xv  273. 
Albcrga  J— xi  189. 
Albm-gh  Rectory  of— vii  360. 
AldersonE  A— X  117. 
Alexander  J— vii  123. 
Alexander  J  J- xiv  325.  xv  58 132  509. 


Alexander  H  R— xv  281. 

Alford  W  G— iv  250.    v  124. 

Allbutt  G  L— viii  62. 

Allen  C  FE— V316. 

Allen  F  J— x  61  245  246  367  368. 

xi53.    xii  310.    xiv  5a.    XV49. 
Allen  G— iii  303. 
Allen  G  C— ix  6i  385.     x  119  120 

245246309312.  xi482.  xii  308. 
Allen  J— ix  61  385. 
Allen  J  B— xiii  371. 
Allen  R— xiii  298.    xiv  255. 
Allen  W— ix  60.    x  61. 
Allfree  G  F— xiv  189. 
Allnutt  S  S— vi  367.    vii  123  169  361. 

viii  185  255370.    X  117. 
Allport  J— ix  385.    X  1 19  120.    xi  53. 

xii  164. 
AlmackW— V  124  186.    ix  185  310 

367. 
Almack  H  (Dr)— xiii  370. 
Alston  G  R— X  246  367  368.    xi  54 

5^  125  247  248  416  490.    xii  122 

185.    xiii  47.    XV  49. 
Alston  T— vii  123  169  170  360  361. 

viii  62  185  25J.    ix  185.    X  117. 
Ambridge  F— viii  255  371  372.     ix 

60  121  185.    x6o.    xi  247. 
Anderson  W  M  —xiii  iii. 
Anderton  W  E— viii  371.     ix  121 

325  385. '  X  60  120. 
Andrew  G-  vi  308  367.    vii  238  361. 

viii  123. 
Andrew  H  M— vi  308.    vii  168  169 

360361.    viii  62.    ix325. 
Andrews  C  A— xii  184. 
Andrews  C  J— xii  184. 
Andrews    E   C— xii    185    186   310. 

3aii  52  S3  231  374«    «v  128  193. 
Andrews  F— iv  118  250  309. 
Anglin  A  H— vii  170. 
AnUionisz  J  O— xi  125.    xii  185. 
Anthony  E  A— xv  281. 
Antrobns  (Sir  Edmtmd}— tx  119. 


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Notes  from  the  College  Records  {continued) 

PAOB 

The  Lake  District  Revisited  .... 

527 

Disillusion        .                •                •                .                • 

533 

Rain         ...... 

.        534 

A  Johnian  Jacobite         .... 

54* 

Sonatina  Poetica     ..... 

.        548 

The  Insularity  of  a  Non-conductor                .               . 

550 

History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club  fcorrigtnda) 

.       556 

Correspondence               .... 

557 

Carmen  Commemorationis     .               .           *    . 

.       558 

Commemoration  Ode      .      '         . 

559 

Chanson  .               .               .               .               .               . 

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Song                ..... 

561 

Obituaiy : 

The  Right  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Powis     . 

.       562 

The  Right  Honourable  Lord  Hcytesbury 

565 

Sir  Patrick  Colquhoun    .... 

.        567 

The  Rev  Vincent  John  Stanton 

573 

The  Rev  Canon  Beadon                 •                • 

.       573 

The  Rev  Samuel  Savage  Lewis 

575 

The  Rev  William  James  Kennedy 

.        576 

The  Freshman  and  the  Logic-paper 

578 

Epigramma  Graecnm               .... 

.        579 

Our  Chronicle                  .... 

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The  Library            ..... 

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pn  coniinue  me  series  oi  leiiers  reierring  lo  tne 
dispute  between  St  John's  and  Trinity  on  the 
enclosure  of  *  Garret  Hostel  Green/ 

Addressed:  To  my  verie  louing  ffrendes  the  M'  and  Seniors 
of  St  Johns  College  in  Cambridge  dd. 

Saluiem  in  Chrisio,  Yo'  vnkynde  and  vn-neigh hourly  dealing' 
w*^  Trinitie  College  in  so  small  a  matter  is  come  to  her 
]Vfatics  knoledge,  to  geather  w**>  my  endeavour  on  that  Colleges 
behalf:  and  I  doo  assure  yo"  that  in  the  hearing  of  diuerse 
persons,  her  Highnesse  expressed  in  soihe  vehemencie  her 
dislyke  of  yo'  frowardnesse  in  so  necessarie  and  reasonable 
a  matter,  towarde  so  greate  and  worthie  a  College,  of  her 
Fathers  foundation,  and  her  owne  patronage ;  and  did  reprove 
mee  for  taking  that  indignitie  at  yo'  handes,  in  not  yelding 
to  my  motion  in  suche  a  tryfle:  Saying  that  I  did  not  vse 
that  authoritie  in  forcing  of  you,  which  I  ought  and  might 
doo,  (as  it  pleased  her  to  say)  in  many  respectes.  All  w<^*»  I 
thought  good  to  signifie  vnto  yo",  before  I  proceede  against 
yo"  in  any  other  cause  :  hoping  that  in  the  meane  tyme  yo"  will 
be  better  aduised,  and  satisfie  nowe  not  my  request,  but  her 
Ma*»«*  expresse  pleasure  geven  vnto  mee.  Yo'  frowarde  and 
uncharitable  proceeding  herein  hath  by  some  of  yo'  owne 
companie  possessed  the  whole  Courte,  to  yo'  discredit  and 
shame:  Where  as  I  had  thought  that  your  discretion  had 
been  suche,  as  to  haue  kept  it  within  the  knoledge  only  of 
suche  as  would  haue  kept  it  secrete,  vntill  it  had  been  frendely 
ended.  W<=^  I  supposed  my  last  Ires  written  vnto  yo"  the  last 
of  Marche  would  haue  effected.  Her  Maty  charged  mee.  That 
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5i8  Notes  from  the  College  Records. 

my  lenitie  breedes  vnto  mee  contempt,  I  protest  that  I  love 
that  Vniversitie  and  everie  College  in  it,  as  I  love  myne  owne 
lyfe;  and  that  I  have  dealt  in  matters  concerning  the  estate 
and  good  thereof  and  of  everie  Member  therein  as  tenderly 
and  carefully,  as  any  ffather  could  ever  deale  with  his  deerest 
children.  But  howe  I  haue  been  or  am  regarded,  lett  the 
effectes  declare.  In  this  cause,  what  meanes  yo»  haue  vsed, 
whom  yo"  have  solicited,  what  vnreasonable  demand es  yo" 
make ;  what  vniust  suggestions  yo^  vse  ;  what  iniurie  yo°  haue 
doon  to  yo'  best  frendes,  what  small  respect  yo"  haue  to  mee, 
the  only  man  nowe  liuing,  who  hadd  the  dealing  in  yo'  Statutes, 
lett  yo'  Actes  and  proceedinge  in  this  Action  declare,  I  doo  not 
blame  yo**  all  herein:  I  am  persuaded,  that  it  is  against  the 
disposition  of  suche  as  are  most  considerable  among  yo°. 
But  to  conclude,  it  is  her  Ma*»««  pleasure.  That  Trinitie  College 
shall  have  their  desier  in  this  suyte,  and  the  conditions 
promised  vnto  yo°  in  my  last  lettres  shall  bee  performed. 
And  so  I  comitt  yo«  to  the  tuition  of  almightie  god.  From 
Lambehith  the  vij'^^  of  April   1600 

yo^  assured  louing  ffrende 
Jo.  Cantuar. 

Addressed:  To  the  Right  wor» :  Mr  Dr  Clayton  Mr  of  St  Johns 
Colledge  in  Cambridge  geue  these. 

S'  my  dutye  remembred  etc.  you  knowe  by  this  the  effecte 
of  my  Lo:  Or.  his  letter  w<^^  your  freindes  woulde  wishe  you 
shoulde  answer  in  the  best  manner  you  can,  not  yieldinge 
in  any  case  from  youre  right.  If  they  be  mandatorye  in 
her  Ma'^«»  name,  yet  they  may  be  thus  answered.  W^  all 
humility  acknowledge  the  authoritie,  and  humblye  desyre  his 
Gr:  that  as  he  has  alwayes  bene  a  patrone  to  learninge,  so 
he  woulde  not  nowe  cast  poore  St  Johns  out  of  his  protection : 
that  he  will  be  pleased  to  make  youre  humble  submission 
knowen  to  her  Ma'*®,  from  whome  &  by  whose  good  fauoure, 
you  hold  your  landes  lyuings,  lawes  and  all  els,  her  greate 
grandmother  being  your  foundres,  and  that  his  Gr:  woulde 
please  to  to  be  informed  fullye  of  the  p'iudices  w«^»  you  receave 
by  this  inclosure.  Cure  good  frendes  are  fullye  possessed 
w*^  the  cause,  of  whose  best  helpe  we  may  assure  ourselves. 
Mr  Secretary  being  informed  in  it,  made  this  answer  that 
his  father  was  and  hymself  is  S°<^^  John's  man  &  in  that  regarde 


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he  will  be  readye  to  do  vs  the  best  good  he  can.  My  Lo. 
Treasurer  is,  or  shall  be  acquainted  w*  the  matter  whose 
good  furtherance  also  we  hope  to  obtayne.  And  therefore 
hauinge  so  good  assurance  of  the  helpe  of  oure  honorable 
frendes  and  hauinge  bene  so  farr  seene  in  the  matter  alreadye, 
we  must  not  nowe  in  anye  case  yielde  w^^out  theire  good 
approbation  lest  we  be  thought  to  be  wantinge  vnto  them 

6  to  ourselves.  In  the  meane  tyme  it  were  fitt  to  addresse 
your  publick  letter  vnto  Mr  Secretarye,  relyinge  on  him  as 
on  his  father  heretofore,  &  makinge  knowen  vnto  hym  all 
your  allegacions  particularlye,  as  also  signifyinge  what  is 
passed  betweene  his  Gr:  &  you  &  also  desyringe  (if  her 
Ma^^  be  possessed  of  this  cause)  his  best  helpe  to  satisfye 
her.  you  may  desyre  my  Lo:  Gr:  that  you  may  not  be 
pressed  to  breake  oathe  &  statute  coceminge  wf^  as  some 
lawyers  saye  you  may  do  it,  so  others  say  you  cannot,  6c 
you  must  satisfye  your  own  mynds  in  that  poynte  &  though 
some  you  be  satisfyed  herein  yet  all  are  not.  Desjrringe 
further  his  Gr:  fauorable  acceptance  of  your  reasons  &  his 
gracious  interpretation  of  youre  doinges  &  that  in  a  true 
sence  of  your  iust  cause  his  (Gr?)  will  not  onlye  satisfye 
hymselfe,  but  also  be  a  meanes  that  her  Ma^^**  may  be  satisfyed. 
Signifyinge  further  that  the  desyre  of  a  braunche  from  their 
conduite,  were  a  greate  pleasure  to  your  house  &  no  incouence 
to  youre  neighboures:  that  besides  youre  cosentation  therein 
it  woulde  greatly e  satisfye  youre  posterity,  who  might  fynde 
that  you  procured  one  benefitt  by  forgoinge  another,  but  this 
must  not  be  alledged  if  you  stande  vppo  youre  statute,  w^'*  I 
thinke  best  at  firste  to  doe:  It  is  best  to  unite  the  p'iudices 
^ch  you  are  to  receave  by  this  inclosure,  as  also  the  reasons 
of  youre  demande  of  a  branche  from  their  conduite  in  ^ 
Schedule  by  themselves  &  delyuer  them  to  hym  whome  you 
sende  aboute  youre  busines.  And  thus  I  take  my  leave^ 
comittinge  you  to  the  tuition  of  almightie  god.     Steuenage 

7  Aprile  1600  __ 

your  worP»  to  comaunde 
WiLLM  Pratt 

I  woulde  desyre  youre  service  &  to  keepe  this  Ire  to  youre 
selfe.  for  thoughe  we  may  assure  oure  selves  of  good  frendes 
yet  we  must  not  make  anye  greate  speache  or  bragges  of 
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Addressed:  To  the  Right  wor"  my  assured  frend  Mr  Doctor 
Clayton  M'  of  St  Johns  Colledge  in  Cambridge  dd. 

S^  your  Colledge  cause  against  Trinities  inclosure  finds  honor- 
able and  earnest  freinds.     The  last  Sunday  the  matter  ^ras 
so  hotte  in  Courte  as  the  like  hath   not  bene  heard  there 
in  such  a  cause.     My  Lo :  is  passinglie  earnest  for  you  and 
your  Colledge,  Mr  Secretary  hath  openly  professed  and  still 
doth  that  he  is  of  your  house,  and  that  you  shall  not  have  any 
wronge,  nor  they  of  Trinity  there  inclosure  wthout  satisfaction 
to  your  Coll  i  yf  his  abilitie  be  sufficient  to  procure  your  righte. 
This  day  D"^  Nevile  hath  bene  with  me,  his  ende  was  (as  I 
gesse)  that  I  should  be  his  meanes  to  my  lo:    to  consider 
rightlie  of  his  duty  to  his  ho :  notwithstandinge  his  opposition 
in  this  cause,  and  that  I  mighte  be  a  meanes  to  you  for 
pacificaton :  of  my  lords  good  conceipte  of  himself  I  assured 
him,   and  for  any  pacificacon,  I  said  that  your  colledge  is 
not  now  yt  selfe,  greater  psons  having  voluntarilie  wthout 
any  your  suite  entred  into  the  cause,  vnto  whose  satisfaction 
yt  behoves  you  now  to  looke,  and  not  they  Xo  yours.     He 
alleged  that  our  Colledge,  had  delt  hardly  wth  the  lo.  Arch: 
in    seeking    to  so    great  psons    while  his   gr:    delt    in  the 
matter,  I  answered  that  yt  was  wthout  your  Colledge  privitie 
vpon  my  lo :  of  Londons  caveat,  that  yt  would  go  ill  with  you 
yf  my  lo:  or  M'  Secretary  should  know  you  delt  in  yt,  for 
vpon  notice    of   that  caveat  I   desired    my  lo:    to  continue 
his  favour  to  you  notwthstanding  a  controu'sy  betwene  Trinity 
Und  you:    vpon    whose    desire  to  be  truly    informed  I  got 
some  of  your  societie  to  informe  him  pticulerly,   whervpon 
his  lo^:  was  moved  to  favour  your  iust  cause  as  he  doth: 
and   of  all  likly  hood,  the  same  caveat  was  the  motyve  for 
Mr    Secretary    to  vnderstand    and    favour    your    cause    also. 
They    alledge    against  you  that    many    other  Colledgs  have 
compounded  for    the  like  wth  the    towne  as   they  do  now 
wthout  seeking  consent  of  any  of  the  vniuersity  over  for  yt. 
That  your  backside  is  in  the  like  state  by  composition  wth 
.the  towne  only  for  8»  2^  rente  or  there  about  yearely,  that 
Dr  Nevile  ptermytted    not  your  colledge,   but    thought   you 
not  interested  in  yt,  never  havinge  hard  that  you  had  Manner 
there,  and  as  yet  thinking  yt  but  your  scite  of  a  manner 
only,    and    that   yi   he    had    omitted  the    Colledge,   yet  he 


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supposes,  that  the  request  made  since  to  ya  by  my  lo:  gr: 
letters  and  his  owne  is  good  satisfaction  for  that  omission. 
They  say  also  that  our  Colledge  hath  no  more  righte  in 
that  comon,  then  any  one  Scholler  servant  hath,  and  that 
now  to  compound  wth  you  were  to  putt  on  all  other  to 
seeke  composition  who  have  interest  there.  I  would  wishe 
you  to  search  your  evidence  for  helpe  thence,  and  to  send 
some  of  your  societie  hither  presentlie  instructed  fully  in 
this  cause.  This  inclosed  peticion  is  very  well  liked  of  your 
best  freinds,  yt  were  good  yt  were  put  into  latyne,  as  you 
vse  and  sent  up  to  be  exhibited  to  her  Ma^»  by  those  whom 
you  send  in  this  buisynes,  and  yt  were  well  you  sent  by 
them  also  letters  of  thanks  to  Mr  Secretary  wth  request  to 
continue  his  favour  and  protection,  you  may  take  notice 
of  his  favour  for  he  doth  publishe  yt,  I  need  not  advise 
you  Ires  of  thanks  to  my  lo :  who  hath  done  you  extraordinary 
fauour  in  this  cause.  Let  vs  vnderstand  of  all  things  as 
passe  and  be  respective  how  you  end  this  cause  wthout 
the  approbatons  of  your  friends.  Take  oppon  you  that 
this  inclosed  petition  is  devised  by  yourselfe  and  retume 
this  copy  thereof  to  gether  this  my  letter  inclosed  in  your 
letter  to  me  by  this  bearer.  Mr  Lyndsell  Mr  Coke  and  Mr 
Hamond  and  I  comend  vs  kindly  to  you,  and  so  I  rest  in 
haste  9*  Apr.    i6qo 

Tuus  iotaliter 
Rob:  Bouth 

Let  vs  have  the  copies  of  all  that  is  written  to  you  by 
the  Archb:  and  of  your  answers,  Mr  Alvey  is  said  by  your 
adversaries  to  be  a  principle  inciter  to  stand  in  this  matter. 
Her  Matie  I  doubt  not  will  stand  like  a  Royall  iust  prince 
(as  she  is)  indifferente  whatsoeur  you  heare  to  the  contrarie. 

Your  frends  wishe  that  Mr  Pratte  may  be  one  to  foUowe 
this  cause. 

Mr  Secretary  was  Sir  Robert  Cecil  Earl  of  Salisbury 
son  of  the  first  Lord  Burghley;  The  Lord  Treasurer 
was  Thomas  Sackville,  Lord  Buckhurst;  both  were 
Johnians- 

The  Latin  letter  which  was  sent  in  accordance 
with  Bouth's  suggestion  will  be  found  in  Mayor^ 
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Addressed:  To  the  right  wor":  Mr  Dr  Claiton  M'  of  St  Johns 

CoUedge  in  Cambridge  d'. 
S'  I  fynde  no  way  so  fitt  to  awnsw  yo'  Ire  of  y«  14*^  of 
this  May,  &  to  advyse  yo'*  as  yo"  desyre;  as  by  taking 
vppo  me  a  person  &  humo**  vnfitt  for  me,  in  an  ov**  p^sumptuous 
mann'  to  control!  yo'  feares  and  discomforts.  Let  it  be 
allowed,  y*  Trinity  College  men  glorye,  y*  some  of  yo'  Coll : 
fleere,  and  oth"  greive  and  are  discoraged  and  y*  most  men 
in  other  places  do  skorne  yo*^  vsage  and  success  &  y*  great 
means  is  vsed  to  incense  his  Gr:  against  you:  it  is  all 
answered  thus,  intus  si  certh  ne  labora^  have  you  done  anything 
wherto  yo^  were  not  bound  by  yo'  statute  and  othe?  have 
yo"  intruded  yo''self  maliciouslye  into  this  busynes?  or  have 
yo*  p'ceeded  furth*"  or  in  oth'  mann*"  in  it,  then  might  very 
well  stand  w*  y'  duty  w*^^  you  do  owe  to  god  and  men  ? 
yf  yo'  answr  be  as  it  must  needs  be  negative;  what  could 
yo"  have  done  oth'  wyse,  then  yo"  have  done,  but  it  should 
have  been  worse  done  ?  why  should  yo»  either  greive  at 
y®  p'sent  estate  of  y*  w*  you  could  not  honestlye  p'vent,  or 
feare  such  future  evills  w^  an  honest  man  hath  not  means  to 
avoyde  ?  yf  yo"  will  beare  w*  my  playness,  I  assure  yo" 
I  fynde  by  this  yo'  Ire  y*  feares  &  discomforts  are  in 
yo"^  mynde  multiplied  above  y*  w*  is  either  true  or  fitt.  Though 
I  be  affected  harteley  in  yo'  cause,  yet  in  my  iudgem*  (all 
circumstances  considered)  I  do  not  fynde  y*  yo^  have  had 
any  harde  success  in  it:  yo"  are  as  free  as  yo"  were,  & 
Trinitye  Coll:  have  no  betf  (but  much  worse)  assurance 
of  their  desyre,  then  they  had  before  they  molested  yo", 
and  further  I  cane  assure  yo«  y*  neith'  yo'  enemies  are  ferme 
nor  yo'  frends  unmyndful  of  yo«  who  do  only  attend  a  fitt 
tyme  to  do  yo'*  good:  &  therefore  my  best  advyse  is  y*  yo« 
still  hould  a  constant  course  as  yo^  have  hith'  to  done; 
yt  yo«  suffer  substances  only  (&  not  likings  dislikings,  con- 
ceiptes  suspicons  rumo"  &  such  like  shadowes)  to  affect 
yott  &  y*  yo"  do  govern  yo^  passions  (how  iust  soev^  yo« 
esteeme  the)  y*  yo"^  best  frends  be  not  drawne  by  the,  rather 
to  do  somewhat  p^sentlye,  then  to  attend  their  best  oppor- 
tunitye  to  do  better  for  you.  I  could  not  improve  yo'  Ire 
to  y®  best  advantage,  by  cause  of  y*  w*  yo"  write  in  it 
conc»*ning  yo'  building:  herafter  write  not  of  both  matf" 
in  one  paper.      I   wryte  to  yo"  as  I  would  be  written  vnto 


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in  y«  like  case :  lett  not  therefore  my  direct  playness  diminish 
your  conceit  of  my  love,  let  not  any  of  yo""  company  (whom- 
soever yo«  trust  best)  knowe  of  any  hope  y*  yo'  case  may 
alter  to  the  better:  for  it  is  bett'  y*  they  languish  a  tyme 
then  y*  by  their  receyving  an  overspeedy  comfort,  the  good 
w*  is  intended  to  yo'  house  should  be  hindred.  concerning 
your  building,  order  is  taken  to  send  into  y«  countrye  for 
money  for  it :  yf  yo«»  take  ord*"  w*  Mr  Cradock  for  exchawnge 
lett  me  know  where  to  fynde  him,  &  thus  w*  my  hartiest 
comendacons  I  take  my  leave  this    16  of  May   1600 

Tuus  ioialit^ 
Rob.  Bouth 

My  La:    desyres  yo*"    not  to    suffer  Mr   Alvye    to  leave 
yo^  Colledge. 


Adressed :  To  the  right  wor":  my  assured  frend  M'  D""  Clayton 
M*-  of  St  John's   Colledg  in   Cambridg.    d"^' 

&*  I  answered  not  yo'  last  Ire  by  y«  carrier  bycause  Mr 
Nevinson  y^  bearer  herof  doth  promise  to  be  so  soone  w*  yo" 
concerning  yo'  controversye  w*  yo'  crosse  neyghbo",  & 
their  cutting  downe  Digb/s  brydge,  I  cane  adyse  no  oth' 
thing  but  patience:  assuring  yo«  y*  no  opportunity  is  lost 
by  yo'  frends  to  procure  yo"^  bett'  fortune  therin.  Concerning 
yo'  building,  it  is  fallen  out  very  unluckily  y*  before  y*  our 
Ires  were  in  the  cowntry  towards  Mr  Coke  about  mony, 
Mr  Coke  was  come  hith'  &  so  ou'  directions  to  him 
in  y*  behalfe  were  frustrate:  but  in  regard  of  yo'  need, 
we  purpose  to  dispatch  him  hence  into  y®  country  to  morrowe, 
&  we  doubt  not  but  yo"  shall  heare  from  him  soone 
aft'  his  coming  thith'.  I  am  coiuanded  to  wryte  thus  vnto 
yo",  by  them  y*  thank  yo"  for  yo'  satisfying  their  request 
in  keeping  Mr  Alvye  still.  Their  ho"  coinend  the  very 
kyndlye  to  yo".  Thus  w*  harty  comendacons  fro  my  Neice 
Crewe,  Mr  Lindsell,  Mr  Coke,  Mr  Hamond  &<=  to  yo*^  self 
&  all  ou'  frends  w*  yo«  I  rest 

Tuus  toialiier 
24th  May  1600  Rob:  Bouth. 

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After  these  letters  I  have  found  nothing  relating 
to  the  matter  for  a  considerable  period.  The  trial 
of  the  Earls  of  Essex  and  Southampton  which  began 
soon  after  this  and  the  death  of  Elizabeth  gave  the 
Court  something  else  to  think  about.  But  we  know 
from  other  sources  that  there  was  considerable  irri- 
tation between  the  Colleges.  In  Cooper's  Annals  II 
p  60 1  will  be  found  some  details  of  an  attack  on 
the  Scholars  of  Trinity  by  those  of  St  John's :  and 
how  the  Trinity  men  had  "provisions  of  stones  layd 
up  and  also  of  some  bucketts  to  fetch  water. . .  .to 
poure  downne  upon  St  John's  mene." 

The  windows  of  our  Library,  then  in  the  first 
Court  to  the  south  of  the  great  gate,  were  broken 
in  the  quarrel.  The  Trinity  men  were  warned  before 
the  Vice-Chancellor  and  the  Trinity  Scholars  paid 
40^.  towards  the  cost  of  replacing  the  windows. 
{Willis  and  Clark  II  263).  Trinity  College  obtained 
its  Inclosure  in  1612-13  and  St  John's  obtained  by 
purchase  from  the  Town  what  is  now  the  site  of  the 
Bowling  Green.  The  remainder  of  the  *  Wilderness ' 
was  obtained  at  a  later  period  from  Corpus. 

The  following  from  Dr  Richardson,  Master  of 
Trinity  to  Dr  Gwyn,  now  Master  of  St  John's,  seems 
to  shew  that  there  was  still  some  ill  feeling;  while 
Sir  Henry  Savile's  letter  shews  that  it  was  now  the 
turn  of  Merton  College  to  seek  compensation.  Sir 
Henry  Savile  was  Provost  of  Eton  1592 — 1622,  having 
previously  been  Warden  of  Merton.  Sir  Henry  gave 
public  lectures  in  geometry  at  Oxford  in  the  year 
1570.  Whether  from  the  difficulty  of  the  subject 
or  the  poorness  of  his  class,  however,  he  never  got 
beyond  the  eighth  proposition  of  Euclid's  First  Book. 
(Ball:  History  of  Mathematics  at  Cambridge.)  He 
founded  the  two  Professorships  of  Geometry  and 
Astronomy  at  Oxford  which  bear  his  name,  and  at 
the  present  time  are  both  held  by  Johnians.  Savile 
was  knighted  by  King  James  in  1604  and  died  in 
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Addressed:  To  y«  right  w^"  my  very  good  frend  Mr  Vichauncelor 
of  Cambridg  At  St  John's  Colledg. 

Good  M'  Vice  Chancellor  I  thank  you  for  this  dayes  worke, 
wc^  was  close  &  lerned  &  for  your  honour  &  for  y«  honour 
of  y«  vniuersity,  for  so  many  as  could  heare  or  iudge  of  it, 
&  now  entendinge  a  ioumey  abroad  (if  my  horses  fayle 
mee  not)  I  am  once  againe  to  desjrre  you,  to  keep  y«  peace, 
in  my  absence,  as  you  have  done  in  my  presence,  between^ 
your  neigbour  Colledge,  &  gallant  St  John's,  who  come 
againe  to  braue  vs  &  challenge  vs  in  our  owne  groundes, 
although  I  perswad  myself  (vppon  my  complaint  of  a  former 
abuse)  you  did  comand  &  vse  your  power  to  restrayne  it. 
I  pray  you  sir,  foresee  in  your  wisedome  what  this  distemper 
may  proceed  vnto,  to  y«  dishonour  of  our  vniuersity,  & 
y®  wronge  of  our  youth  of  boath  sides,  who  are  impatient 
of  proucation,  especially  vpon  their  owne  inheritance. 
I  did  heere  yesterday  noyse  on  our  backsyd  &  would  have 
gone  forth  among  them,  but  that  I  had  taken  Physicke  & 
this  day  my  Deanes  of  y«  Colledge  did  make  an  earnest 
request  to  mee  to  stay  these  beginnings,  before  I  goe  abroad, 
lest  some  mischiefe  should  followe  before  I  returne  againe. 
I  repose  much  in  your  wisedome  &  good  will  to  my  selfe, 
wherein  I  would  not  have  any  breach,  for  a  thousande  boyes 
quarrels,  &  yet  I  know  that .  boyes  may  begin  a  quarrel 
vj^^  at  length  will  end  amongst  men  of  greater  place. 
When  we  come  to  challenge  your  Schollers  vpon  your  groundes, 
let  mee  heare  of  it  &  try  my  spirit,  w<=^  is  dull  in  any  thing 
but  frendly  respects,  wherein  you  can  neuer  say  it  is  wanting 

Tuus  eiemu 
Trinity  Col.  Jo  Richardson 

March  24,  161 5 


Addressed:  To  the  R.  wor^^  his  very  loving  frende  M'  D«*  Gwiix 
Master  of  St  Johns  in. Cambridge. 

S'.  I  am  as  willing  as  any  man  lining  y^  schollars  and  yong 
gentlemen  should  haue  all  theire  honest  and  lawfull  recreation ; 
&  soe  I  haue  reason  to  bee  it  hauing  been  my  occupation 
almost  this  60  yeares.  But  I  knowe  you  will  not  distast 
y*  I  am  iealous  of  the  Colledge  inheritance  y^  brought  me 
vpp,  which  hath  lately,  as  wee  conceaue,  been  preiudiced 
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by  Trinity  Colledge,  &  more  by  St  Jhons.  The  reason 
why  I  make  a  difference  betweene  you  is  this ;  for  that  the 
late  M'  of  Trinity  Colledge,  my  worthy  cosin,  doctor  Neuill 
before  the  enclosing  asked  our  consente  directly  by  mapp 
then  being  in  court  &  promised  consideration  as  should 
be  thought  reasonable:  which  he  lyued  not  to  performe, 
falling  not  long  after  into  y^  mortal!  disease,  which  made  him 
unfitt  to  be  talked  withall  &  soe  brought  him  to  his  ende. 
Neyther  did  we  strike  you  of  St  Johns  before  we  spake, 
yf  the  attendance  of  pur  Tenant  6  or  7  times  vppon  you 
by  our  College  expresse  comaundement  &  you  would  never 
vouchsafe  to  speake  with  him,  bee  a  speaking  in  law,  as 
they  say  a  tender  is  a  payment  in  law.  But  S*".  y*  you  may 
knowe  I  neyther  seeke  trouble  nor  law,  especially  with 
CoUedges  if  it  please  you,  I  will  make  you  and  Trinity 
Colledge  a  fayre  offer:  eyther  make  vs  such  consideratiou 
as  may  bee  proportionable  in  some  sort  to  our  losses,  & 
Buche  as  the  Kinge  w^^  then  was  did  thinke  reasonable  in 
Kinges  Colledge  case ;  or  ioyne  with  vs  in  a  quiett  &  peaceable 
tryall,  which  may  bee  dispatched  in  2  or  3  tearmes,  &  what- 
soeuer  the  euent  bee,  soe  ^Jie  triall  be  vppon  the  mayne 
point,  wee  shalbe  coQtented  soe  to  end  the  whole  matter  with  you 
both.  And  to  that  effect  I  purpose,  if  sicknes  or  greater 
busynes  doe  not  hinder  mee,  to  be  at  Cambridge  my  selfe 
about  the  20th  of  September  next,  2  or  3  dayes  vnder  or 
ouer;  where  if  wee  doe  not  end  all  Controuersyes  betweene 
Colledge  &  Colledge  by  one  of  these  twoo  waies,  it  shall 
not  bee  our  faultes,  I  dare  presume  soe  much  of  our  Company ; 
praying  you,  y*  if  you  cannot  be  there  at  that  time,  or 
Jy  Richardson, .  I  may  knowe  by  a  word  from  you,  &  soe 
spare  my  paynes  in  iourniing ;  which  to  a  man  of  my  age 
wilbee  long  &  laborious:  as  if  I  cannot  keep  my  day,  I 
will  certifie  you  by  a  messenger  expressely  to  that  purpose. 
And  so  I  rest 

Eton  ultimo  Julij  yo'  very  loving  frede 

1 61 7  He.  Savilk 

Of  other  poyntes  of  y^  letter  wee  shall  talke  further  at  our 
meeting,  if  it  please  god. 

(To  he  continued,) 

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THE  LAKE  DISTRICT  REVISITED. 


JHERE  did  we  leave  oflF?"  remarked  the  poet, 
when  after  a  somewhat  lengthy  interval  for 
rest  and  refreshment,  especially  the  latter, 
they  resumed  their  discourse.  "We  were  engaged 
on  the  subject  of  frauds,  I  believe,"  the  philosopher 
replied.  "  Oh  yes,"  said  the  poet,  "  and  I  should  like 
to  contribute  another  to  the  collection.  There  is  or 
was,  I  daresay  you  know,  on  the  top  of  Great  Gable, 
B,  small  pool  of  water  which  is  said  never  to  dry  up 
even  in  the  hottest  weather.  Now  a  brother  poet 
of  mine  somehow  managed  to  get  hold  of  the  report, 
and  in  order  to  make  people  believe  that  he'd  been 
up  the  Gable,  which  he  hadn't,  he  must  needs 
perpetrate  a  somewhat  verbose  address  to  it  in  verse. 
That,  however,  would  have  been  a  comparatively  mild 
misdemeanour,  had  he  been  content  to  use  it  for 
shaving  paper  immediately  afterwards.  But  one  day 
he  fairly  cornered  me  and  insisted  on  reciting.  It 
began  somewhat  as  follows: — 

O  sacred  fount  of  waters  undefiled, 

Strange  distillation  of  the  mountain  dew. 
Nestling  in  rocky  cradle  like  a  child. 
Farewell  to  you! 

My  subsequent  adventures  I  must  narrate  in  verse  : 

Fired  by  the  words,  my  stick  I  seized, 
(It  was  the  second  line  that  pleased) 
Rushed  up  the  Gable's  rugged  slopes 
'Mid  perspiration,  fears,  and  hopes. 
And  when  at  last  just  fit  to  drop 
Espied  the  pool  upon  the  top. 


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Alas!  what  rage  my  bosom  thrilled! 
No  mountain  dew  the  hollow  filled ; 
Nought  bat  a  pint  of  dirty  sludge, 
(The  poet*s  dream  was  simple  fudge) 
One  piece  of  paper,  smeared  with  jam, 
Three  eggshells,  half  a  sandwich  (ham), 
Two  broken  bottles,  labelled  clear. 
One  Lemonade^  one  Gingtr-hurl 

Needless  to  say,  I  retiimed  a  sadder  and  a  somewhat 
wiser  man,  and  set  to  work  on  an  emended  and 
expurgated  edition  of  my  friend's  poem.  My  sugges- 
tion was  of  this  nature : 

Much  dirt  in  precious  little  compass  piled. 

Relics  of  'Any  out  upon  the  spree, 
Libel  it  is  to  call  you  undefiled: 
Good  after  teal 

Yet  strange  to  relate,  my  friend  refused,  with,  I  may 
say,  wholly  uncalled-for  indignation,  to  acknowledge 
the  superiority  of  my  version.  However,  I  shall  have 
my  revenge,  for  I  am  engaged  on  a  paper  to  be  read 
at  the  next  meeting  of  the  British  Association,  which 
will  prove  his  precious  pool  to  be  merely  a  kitchen- 
midden  of  the  pre-historic  Great  Gableites." 

''Let  me  add  another  to  our  list,"  said  the  philo- 
sopher: "what  I  refer  to  is,  I  regret  to  say,  one  of 
the  commonest  and  most  blatant  frauds  I  have  come 
across — the  Waterfall.  It  is  a  curious  fact  that,  though 
people  say  it  is  always  raining  in  the  Lake  District, 
I  find  no  signs  of  it  when  I  go  to  see  a  waterfall. 
Perhaps  I  should  say  I  used  to  find  no  signs,  for 
I  have  long  ago  given  up  that  most  disappointing 
method  of  amusement.  And  it  is  always  worse  with 
one  which,  not  being  able  to  fall  properly,  has  to 
call  itself  a  cataract.  A  waterfall,  and  still  more  a 
cataract,  is  the  most  senselessly  and  causelessly  vain 
creature  in  existence.  Does  not  even  Wordsworth 
admit  as  much  as  this  when  he  says 

"The  cataracts  blow  their  trumpets  from  the  steep?" 


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If  that  doesn't  break  the  record  for  vaingloriousness, 
it  comes  mighty  near  it.  It  isn't  as  if  a  waterfall 
does  anything  wonderful;  it  can't  really  help  itself. 
Who  ever  came  across  a -waterfall  that  showed  any 
originality  and  fell  the  other  way? 

^'I  quite  agree  with  your  remarks/'  replied  the 
poet.  "  The  worst  offender  of  all  is  the  Cataract  of 
Lodore.  It  insinuates  itself  into  our  hearts  when  we 
are  young  and  unsophisticated,  and  have  to  learn 
Southey  for  repetition,  and  when,  with  yet  unbroken 
faith  in  the  delusion,  we  go  to  see  (I  rather  fancy 
they  charged  me  sixpence),  expecting  a  torrent  of 
at  least  quadrisyllable  fury,  we  find,  eleven  times  out 
of  a  possible  ten,  a  barren  wilderness  of  huge  dry 
.boulders,  with  a  spoony  couple  behind  each,  who 
look  daggers  at  you  as  you  break  in  on  their  tUe-h-t^e. 
Without  exaggeration  I  assure  you  I  interrupted  sixteen 
proposals  there  in  the  course  of  twenty  minutes.  The 
fact  is  we  want  a  new  and  revised  edition  of  Southey's 
poem  for  use  in  dry  weather.  X  put  forward  the 
following  as  a  suggestion : 

*  How  does  the  water  come  down  at  Lodore  ? ' 

I  was  asked,  in  the  words  of  that  fraudulent  rhjme. 

*  My  good  friend,'  I  answered,  •  I've  been  there  before : 

It  comes  down  in  thimblefuls,  one  at  a  time. 
Its  source  in  the  mountain's  entirely  run  dry, 

Its  own  little  lake  has  got  nothing  to  spare ; 
For  a  month  there's  been  never  a  cloud  in  the  sky. 
And  every  beck  channel  is  all  on  the  glare* 
First  gliding  and  sliding, 

Then  flopping  and  dropping, 
Perspiring,  retiring, 
Then  lazily  stopping, 
And  cursing  the  heat  and  the  clerk  of  the  weather. 
Determines  to  give  up  the  job  altogether, 
Sinks  down  'mid  the  stones  and  is  seen  nevermore, 
And  that's  how  the  water  comes  down  at  Lodore.' 
I'm  afraid  it  isn't  quite  as  long  as  the  original ; 
but  then  there  isn't  enough  water  to  make  it  go  any 


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further;  so  I  can't  help  it.     llowever,  I'm  dried  up 
too ;   so  pass  the  jug,  if  you  please." 

"The  next  one  on  my  list,"  said  the  philosopher, 
as  soon  as  the  poet  had  recovered,  "is  the  stepping- 
stone  or  stones,  as  the  case  may  be.  This  is  a  most 
treacherous  variety,  and  generally  manages  to  ensnare 
its  unsuspecting  victims  by  means  of  a  lacuna  of 
considerable  extent  about  the  middle  of  the  manuscripts 
The  architect  of  these  structures  must  generally  be 
a  man  with  a  gift  for  incongruities,  or  perhaps  an 
especial  turn  for  absent-mindedness.  He  manages 
all  right  until  he  nears  the  centre  of  the  stream,  but 
then  he  somehow  will  not  remember,  as  he  did  at 
first,  that  human  legs  are  generally  something  less 
than  ten  feet  long.  No  doubt  there  may  be  exceptions, 
but  at  the  same  time  I  am  a  somewhat  selfish  person, 
and  prefer  to  have  my  stepping-stones  built  entirely 
to  suit  myself,  and  I  object  to  compromising  matters 
with  an  exception,  especially  when  such  a  compromise 
destroys  the  continuity  of  arrangements  just  in  mid^ 
stream." 

"  Quite  so,"  said  the  poet ;  "  and  let  me  here  submit 
an  emendation  of  what  Wordsworth  says  on  the  subject. 
The  straggling  rill  most  senselessly  has  grown 
Into  a  foaming  torrent,  deep  and  wide; 
No  bridge  in  sight  a  mile  on  either  side! 
Too  wide  to  jump  1    But  ah!    behold  'a  zone 
Chosen  for  ornament':  quite  true,  I  own, 
For  when  in  midmost  stream  the  waters  race 
Through  yards  of  unobstracted  interspace 
(They  always  will  forget  that  centre  stone) 
To  call  it  useless  is  to  draw  it  mild. 
Some  try  to  jump  it  (I  have  seen  and  smiled), 
Heedless  of  slippery  footing  far  from  sure. 
When  they  swam  out,  I  said,  'I  told  you  so!' 
And  they  remarked  in  tones  of  bitter  woe 
How  wet  they  were,  the  English  tongue  how  poor ! " 
"Let  us  now  digress,"  said  the  philosopher,   "for 
the  benefit  of  the  athletically    inclined,  and  give  a 


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few  notes  on  the  subject  of  Rowing  as  She  is  Rowed 
in  the  district  of  which  we  are  discoursing.  The 
indigenous  variety  of  boat  as  well  as  the  indigenous 
method  of  propelling  the  same  deserves  careful  study 
from  the  conscientious  antiquary.  I  have  heard  it  laid 
down  by  one,  who  from  his  description  of  himself  must 
have  known  all  about  it,  that  a  boat  consists  of  three 
parts,  viz : — the  bow,  the  stem,  and  the  part  between 
the  bow  and  the  stern ;  the  boat  of  the  Lake  District 
is  usually  no  exception  to  this  terse  and  expressive 
rule.  Its  shape  is  perhaps  sometimes  a  little  peculiar, 
but  it  is  in  the  fittings  that  its  distinctive  characteristics 
come  in.  Of  these  let  us  first  take  the  oar.  This  is 
generally  small  in  the  blade,  but  it  makes  up  for 
that  by  being  extremely  massive  in-board.  The 
nomenclature,  however,  is  a  little  confusing  in  this 
department.  A  sculling  race  is  termed  a  single  or 
double  oar  race,  according  to  the  number  of  dramatis 
personae  in  each  boat;  but  on  the  other  hand  what 
is  elsewhere  called  an  oar  goes  by  the  name  of 
*long  scull/  However,  the  scull,  long  or  otherwise, 
is  pierced  with  a  hole,  through  which  is  inserted 
the  iron  pin  attached  to  the  rigger,  or,  as  it  is  termed, 
*oifset.'  Now  the  oifset  is  a  most  indispensable 
piece  of  apparatus:  no  boat  is  considered  complete 
without  it,  and  it  is  nearly  always  of  uniform  size 
and  shape,  no  matter  what  the  size  or  shape  of  the 
boat  may  be.  I  remember  having  seen  a  boat  which 
was  used  for  carrying  cargoes  of  gravel.  It  was  nearly 
six  feet  broad,  but  was  nevertheless  provided  with  a 
complete  set  of  these  harmless,  necessary  appendages." 

"Let  us  now  proceed  to  the  stretcher,"  continued 
the  philosopher. 

"You"re  rather  good  at  that  sort  of  thing,"  inter- 
polated the  poet. 

"Time  was,"  said  the  philosopher,  without  noticing 
the  interruption,  "when  the  stretcher  was  not,  until 
some  mute  inglorious  Logan  evolved  out  of  the  depths 


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of  his  ingenuity  a  small  bar  of  wood  about  an  inch 
square,  which  for  a  time  satisfied  the  aquatic  aspirations 
of  the  neighbourhood.  This  was  further  improved 
upon  by  being  made  round,  and  having  two  small 
oval  pieces  of  thin  board  nailed  to  it  somewhere 
about  the  middle.  This  instrument  rejoiced  and  still 
rejoices  in  the  euphonious  and  appropriate  title  of 
*  foot-stick,'  and  is  the  highest  type  evolved  by  the 
picturesque  and  primitive,  unaided  by  the  modem 
and  utilitarian.  As  for  the  style  of  rowing,  that  I 
have  carefully  observed  at  the  annual  regatta  which 
takes  place  on  UUeswater.  It  has  a  tendency  to  be 
distinctly  severe  on  the  pit  of  the  stomach." 

"But  to  return  to  the  subject  of  frauds,"  the 
philosopher  resumed:  "I  can't  think  of  any  more  at 
present,  unless  it  be  yourself,  or  still  more  your 
poetry." 

"  You're  another,"  rejoined  the  poet. 


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DISILLUSION. 

The  western  sky  lies  tathed  in  golden  light, 
Soft  break  the  rippling  wavelets  at  my  feet; 

The  nightingale,  sweet  harbinger  of  night, 
I  hear  anon  its  evening  song  repeat. 

But  though  all  nature  chants  its  hymn  of  praise, 

In  tones  subdued  to  calm  my  troubled  breast; 
Though  far  above  the  peaceful  cattle  graze, 

And  one  by  one  the  tired  birds  seek  their  nest- 
Yet  o'er  my  soul  dark  angry  passions  sweep. 

In  vain  the  sunset  gilds  the  distant  hills; 
For  on  a  boat  that  rocks  upon  the  deep, 

I  see  displayed  the  name  of  Beecharris  Pills. 

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RAIN. 

[From  a  large  number  of  contributions  on  this  seasonable  sabject, 
the  Editors  have  selected  the  two  that  follow.  They  may  serve  to  occupy 
some  of  the  time  that  in  brighter  summers  would  be  devoted  to  lawp-temiis 
and  cricket.] 

I. 

^RAVELLING  from  the  South  tho  other  day 
1^1  by  the  Midland  Railway,  I  was  in  a  deep 
reverie.  It  was  a  dull  and  sleepy  day.  A  few 
gleams  of  light  had  occasionally  brightened  the  clouds 
covered  sky,  only  to  fade  away  and  dash  the  hopes 
of  the  weary  traveller.  The  gloom  deepened  as 
towards  evening  the  train  entered  the  valleys  of 
Derbyshire,  and  when  we  tore  into  Miller's  Dale 
Station,  the  rain  was  falling  in  ruthless  showers.  The 
firs  swayed  angrily  on  the  wet-gleaming  limestone 
crags:  the  water  gathered  in  little  pools  on  the 
hollows  of  the  "sleepers":  the  drops  fell  with  a 
monotonous  rattle  on  the  window-panes  of  the  car- 
riages: and  an  unspeakable  sense  of  mourning  was 
in  the  heart  of  everyone — ^but  myself.  It  is  seldom 
that  rain  is  an  inspiration.  It  was  so  then.  Hitherto 
my  thoughts  had  been  m  nubtbus.  In  nuizbus  they 
should  remain. 

Strange  to  say,  there  is  no  English  classic  on 
the  subject  of  rain:  and  yet  John  Bull  loves  to 
talk  about  the  weather,  and  to  deal  tenderly  with 
bad  weather  in  particular.  In  the  literature  of 
the  past  there  have  appeared  immortal  tomes  which 
have  delighted  the  public  and  passed  into  cheap 
editions.  By  way  of  illustration  we  have  only  to 
remind  the  reader  of  the  notoriety  gained  by  such 


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treatises  as  Three  Men  in  a  Boaty  or  The  Mystery  of 
a  Hansom  Cab.  But  what  poetic  interest  is  suggested 
by  such  topics  as  compared  with  the  transcendent 
potentialities  that  belong  to  the  rain?  No  doubt 
there  is  a  general  impression  that  rain  is  useful  but 
not  ornamental.  Having  had  a  large  experience  of 
watery  weather  in  a  peculiarly  watery  locality  I  may 
say  that  this  is  a  complete  mistake.  "Time  cannot 
wither  it  nor  custom  stale  its  infinite  variety."  Not 
ornamental !  Why,  what  is  it  but  rain  that  adds  such 
lustre  to  my  new  silk  top-hat,  or  curls  into  graceful 
droopings  the  feathers  of  the  female  bonnet?  No 
definition  of  rain  shall  be  attempted,  first,  because 
generally  speaking  it  baffles  definition.  This  is  proved 
by  the  fact  that  it  is  usually  described  by  certain  stock 
epithets  of  a  more  or  less  complimentary  character, 
while  the  thing  itself  remains  undefined.  Then  again, 
now-a-days  a  scientific  definition  is  hazardous.  For 
it  will  be  revised  and  modified  and  probably  altered 
altogether  thirty  years  hence  by  new  scientists,  and 
I  have  too  much  respect  for  the  pages  of  the  Eagle 
to  mar  its  reputation  by  a  definition  that  will  be 
superseded  thirty  years  hence.  If  it  had  only  been 
say  ten  years  hence,  that  would  of  course  have  been 
quite  another  matter. 

"  England  is  a  well-watered  country,"  said  a  good- 
natured  but  unfortunate  individual  to  another  gentle- 
man in  an  hotel.  I  overheard  the  conversation  in 
the  cofifee-room.  "Well,"  said  the  other,  as  he 
looked  out  upon  the  drizzle  then  falling,  "we  think 
so  this  morning."  The  first  speaker  relapsed  into 
gloomy  silence:  and,  after  an  interval  of  half  an 
hour,  started  a  conversation  on  the  Norfolk  broads. 
I  mean  that  his  subject  was  the  Norfolk  broads, 
and  he  told  of  certain  gentlemen  in  a  yacht  whose 
get-up  was  perfect  (this  was  probably  the  point 
of  the  anecdote);  but  somehow  or  other  that  yacht 
was  always  going  into  the  bank.  This,  however,  is^ 
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53^  Rain. 

In  the  course  of  my  travels  I  have  carefully 
noticed  six  varieties  of  rain.  Firsts  there  is  the 
drizzle.  Of  this  variety  I  shall  say  nothing  more 
than  that  it  possesses  the  supreme  merit  of  wetting 
more  thoroughly  than  any  other.  Second^  there 
is  the  straight  steady  downpour.  This  as  a  rule 
begins  at  ten  in  the  morning,  and  goes  on  till 
after  midnight.  In  the  morning  at  nine  the  sun  is 
shining  brightly,  and  you  have  made  up  your  mind 
that  the  day  will  be  fine.  So  you  go  to  business 
without  an  umbrella  and  in  a  white  waistcoat.  This 
variety  is  very  popular  and  grows  to  perfection  in 
Manchester.  Thirds  there  is  the  heavy  shower  which 
comes  after  intervals  of  sunshine  and  is  not  necessarily 
confined  to  the  month  of  April.  The  last  shower  of 
the  day  usually  descends  after  a  prolonged  spell  of 
unclouded  brightness,  when  all  the  guests  have  turned 
up  in  summer  costumes  for  a  tennis  or  garden  party. 
This  may  be  called  the  common  or  "  garden "  shower. 
Fourth^  the  thunderstorm.  This  gfives  rise  to  beautiful 
poetic  effects.  On  the  river  the  other  day  I  watched 
from  the  shelter  of  a  bridge  the  great  drops  fadl,  and 
millions  of  little  watery  sprites  danced  on  the  surface 
of  the  stream.  N.B.  Groloshes  are  useless  for  this 
class.  Fifths  the  mild  summer  shower.  This  is 
called  by  the  farmers  "growing"  weather,  presumably 
because  it  most  frequently  comes  about  harvest-time. 
Shakspeare  founded  one,  of  his  immortal  similes  on 
this  variety.  *It  droppeth  as  the  gentle  rain  from 
heaven  upon  the  place  beneath'  As  Shakspeare  wrote 
this  line,  of  course  it  is  beyond  criticism.  But  if 
R.  Montgomery  had  been  the  author,  some  malicious 
critic  would  have  certainly  asked  where  else  that 
gentle  rain  could  have  dropped.  Sixths  there  is  a 
variety  rather  hard  to  designate  but  called  technically 
in  Lancashire,  I  believe,  "  spitting."  There  is  a  cloudy 
sky  overhead  and  at  rare  intervals  a  few  drops  of  rain- 
fall.    This  is  a  disappointing  type  of  rain  because  it 


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never  comes  to  anything.  It  is  good  as  far  as  it 
goes,  but  it  does  not  go  far  enough.  You  take  an 
umbrella  and  a  macintosh  with  you  to  town,  and  you 
are  miserable  because  it  turns  out  a  very  hot  day. 
Also  you  have  left  your  umbrella  in  a  tramcar. 

The  above  list  does  not  pretend  to  be  exhaustive, 
but  it  may  form  the  basis  of  a  pleasing  monograph 
in  case  there  should  be  future  students  of  this 
fascinating  topic.  To  secure  the  recognition  which  it 
might  otherwise  miss,  the  monograph  should  be  written 
in  German. 

The  poetry  of  rain  is  best  set  forth  by  mentioning 
the  artistic  situations  to  which  rain  gives  rise.  There 
is  of  course  the  passage  in  Lucretius  beginning  Suave 
mari  magno^  which  will  always  strike  an  unbiassed 
reader  as  one  of  the  most  original  sentiments  in  the 
classics.  Not  having  a  Lucretius  by  me,  I  dare  not 
trust  myself  to  reproduce  the  Latin.  This  may,  to 
some  extent,  also  account  for  the  somewhat  loose  para- 
phrase which  follows.  "How  jolly  it  is  to  stand  on 
the  shore  and  to  see  the  Dover  packet  tossing  on  the 
mighty  main,  knowing  all  the  time  that  the  passengers 
are  compassed  by  sore  sickness,  and  that  they  may  not 
get  safely  to  land."  The  writer  was  forcibly  reminded 
of  this  passage  as  he  lay,  one  hot  summer  afternoon, 
on  the  Malvern  hills.  A  cloudless  blue  overhead,  the 
great  stretching  landscape  in  front,  and  likewise  a 
large  expanse  of  sky  melting  away  to  the  horizon — that 
was  the  scene.  Looking  towards  Worcester,  I  observed 
a  dark  cloud  hovering  round  the  city.  A  misty  gloom 
obscured  the  cathedral  tower,  and  with  great  joy  I 
knew  it  was  raining  hard  there.  While  I  was  high  and 
dry,  how  jolly  to  think  of  the  Worcester  people  getting 
wet  to  the  skin !  When  in  this  fashion  you  carry  the 
Lucretian  reflexion  to  its  ultimate  issues,  the  genuine- 
ness of  its  poetic  flavour  becomes  more  and  more 
apparent.  There  are  other  situations  too  numerous  to 
mention  which  only  a  rainy  day  produces.     Is  there 


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not  for  example  a  delicate  aroma  of  poetic  interest  in 
the  omnibus  on  a  rainy  day,  when  from  the  dripping 
umbrellas  and  the  drenched  macintoshes  there  arises 
an  invigorating  fragrance?  Is  there  not  also  a  thrill 
of  joy  in  the  sensation  of  raindrops  trickling  down 
your  backbone  when  your  eight  "  easies  "  on  the  river  ? 
Or  when  your  shirt-front  is  reduced  to  a  mass  of  pulp 
by  the  refreshing  streams  which  fall  from  the  points 
of  your  friend's  umbrella  ?  Or  when  you  step  in  the  dark 
into  a  puddle  and  the  water  squelches  in  your  boots  as 
you  continue  your  joyous  progress  ?  Does  not  the  rain 
impart,  by  means  of  the  mud  which  it  produces  in 
the  road,  a  "poetic  colouring  "—or  shall  I  say  a 
"local  colouring" — ^to  your  garments  that  cannot  be 
equalled  by  any  other  process?  What  joy  to  trip  on 
*the  light  fantastic  toe'  over  the  brown  liquid  surface 
of  a  macadamised  road  after  a  heavy  shower ! 

Sed  fugit  inter ea^  fugit  irreparabile  tempus 
Singula  dum  capH  circumvectamur  amore. 
It  is  to  be  earnestly  hoped  that  the  rain  will  always 
retain  its  important  place  in  ordinary  English  conver- 
sation, and  will  never  lose  its  hold  on  the  affections  of 
the  English  public.  How  commonplace  the  talk  of 
most  people  would  be,  if  it  had  not  been  raining  just 
before,  or  if  it  were  not  going  to  rain,  or  if  it  were  not 
raining  at  the  moment  of  speaking.  The  naiveU  and 
freshness  of  human  intercourse  would  suffer  a  severe 
and  lasting  shock,  if  this  all-absorbing  topic  were 
allowed  to  fall  into  abeyance.  It  is  superfluous  to 
remind  the  reader  of  the  striking  part  it  has  played 
in  English  literature  from  Milton  downwards.  Witness 
the  passage  in  Paradise  Regained  beginning  "Either 
tropic  now  'gan  thunder,"  and  hundreds  of  similar 
passages  that  will  occur  to  the  average  English  school- 
boy. In  fact  there  has  been  no  poet  or  novelist  who  has 
not  drawn  from  this  fount  of  inspiration.  Who  can  forget 
the  splendid  description  of  the  Sou'wester  in  Greorge 
Meredith's  Egoist}  With  the  penetration  of  true  genius. 


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he  has  discovered  the  glories  of  the  watery  sky.  Let 
me  quote.  "Southwestern  rain-clouds  are  never  long 
sullen :  they  enfold  and  will  have  the  earth  in  a  good 
strong  glut  of  the  kissing  overflow :  then  as  a  hawk 
with  feathers  on  his  beak  of  the  bird  in  his  claw  lifts 
heady  they  rise  and  take  veiled  feature  in  long  climbing 
watery  lines :  at  any  moment  they  may  break  the  veil 
and  show  soft  upper  cloud,  show  sun  on  it,  show  sky, 
green  near  the  verge  they  spring  from,  of  the  green  of 
grass  in  early  dew:  or  along  a  travelling  sweep  that 
rolls  asunder  overhead,  heaven's  laughter  of  purest 
blue  among  titanic  white  shoulders :  it  may  mean  fair 
smiling  for  awhile  or  be  the  lightest  interlude,  but 
the  watery  lines  and  the  drifting,  the  chasing,  the 
upsoaring,  all  in  a  shadowy  fingering  of  form  and  the 
animation  of  the  leaves  of  the  trees  pointing  thereon, 
the  bondings  of  the  tree-tops,  the  snapping  of  branches 
and  the  hurrahings  of  the  stubborn  hedge  at  wrestle 
with  the  flaws,  yielding  but  a  leaf  at  most  and  that 
on  a  fling,  make  a  glory  of  contest  and  wildness 
without  aid  of  colour  to  inflame  the  man  who  is  at 
home  in  them  from  old  association  on  road,  heath, 
and  mountain."  The  full  beauty  of  this  passage  will 
only  come  out  if  you  try  to  turn  it  into  Latin  prose. 

In  conclusion  while  there  is  humour  in  this  subject, 
yet  we  shall  do  well  not  to  treat  it  with  levity.  That 
it  is  capable  of  serious  treatment  will  be  proved  by 
the  tone  of  the  above  remarks.  There  is  really  nothing 
more  calculated,  if  taken  in  the  right  spirit,  to  whet 
our  intellectual  sensibilities  or,  if  conceived  in  a  wrong 
one,  to  damp  our  poetic  ardour.  If  we  find  that  there 
is  a  growing  tendency  to  scorn  a  topic  like  this,  let 
us  do  our  best  to  maintain  its  ancient  prestige,  and 
be  loyal  to  the  reigning  monarch. 

And  now  prepare  for  a  shock.  The  strangest  of 
strange  things  happened.  When  I  got  to  Manchester 
that  night,  it  was  not  raining. 

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II. 

This  is  a  seasonable  subject  and  not  a  diy  one; 
therefore  have  I  chosen  it. 

Many  nasty  things  have  been  said  about  the 
inopportune  ways  of  rain.  One  of  them  seems  true, 
namely,  that  if  you  take  an  umbrella  you  are  sure 
to  keep  the  rain  away — some  of  it.  If  we  are  boating 
men  we  can  always  reflect  that  rain  does  not  wet 
the  river^  thus  saving  our  irritation. 

It  is  the  trees  and  flowers  that  are  most  delighted 
when  the  rain  comes.  Everything  in  fact  (except  man) 
is  offiering  up  incense  for  the  nectar-gift,  and  our 
progress  is  through  the  midst  of  altars.  Birds,  beasts, 
flowers,  all  steam  with  ecstasy:  but  man  puts  up  an 
umbrella,  and  when  it  is  all  over  he  has  had  no  nectar, 
and  therefore  need  not  be  thankful. 

Among  the  (let  us  say)  beasts  above-mentioned 
are  the  worms — ^nice,  soft,  chubby  worms.  They  come 
out  when  the  rain  is  over.  They  are  not  afraid  of 
spoiling  their  peach-like  complexions  now,  and  so 
stretch  themselves  out  and  are  fanned  by  the  breezes, 
and  feel  so  happy  that  they  suffer  themselves  to  be 
gobbled  up  by  the  rooks  without  moving  a  muscle. 

The  rooks  are  not  over-sentimental.  They  have 
long  prayers  over-night  and  make  a  great  deal  of 
noise  about  them ;  but  they  get  up  very  early  in  the 
morning  and  do  doubtftil  deeds  of  daring  throughout 
the  land.  There  is  a  lot  to  be  said  about  rooks,  but 
they  are  not  rain. 

But  the  snow !  It  is  of  snow-flakes  that  *  The  Idle 
Fellow '  says — *  They  are  big  with  mystery.'  When  we 
stand  at  the  window  thinking  perhaps  of  anything  in 
the  world  but  snow,  suddenly  two  or  three  great  flakes 
appear  sailing  slowly  on.  Our  interest  is  at  once 
awakened.  We  ask  them  if  there  are  more  behind? 
if  they  are  going  to  stay  ?  if  they  are  in  earnest  ?  But 
they  answer  never  a  word  and  go  on  about  their 
business.      Then    we    notice    that  they    melt  on    the 


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pavement,  and  conclude  that  we  shall  not  have  a 
white  world,  and  we  pity  the  untimely  death  of  them. 
But  the  spots  smile  scornfully  at  us  and  even  widen 
out  into  a  broad  grin,  each  of  them,  as  much  as  to 
say,  *  What  do  you  know  about  it  ?  We  have  done  our 
duty  and  are  content ' ;  and  it  turns  out  that  we  are 
wrong  and  they  are  right,  and  presently  there  is  a 
white  mantle  over  all. 

Hail  is  exciting.  If  someone  tells  us  that  they 
have  had  rain,  we  are  quite  proud  to  be  able  to  say, 
"Oh!  it  hailed  with  us."  We  feel  somewhat  of 
martjrrdom  when  it  hails,  imagine  that  it  cuts  us 
like  whips,  like  knives,  like  anything,  and  all  we 
long  for  is  to  see  it  as  big  as  pigeon^s  eggs,  like  they 
have  it — abroad.  It  is  not  true  that  hail-clouds  are 
like  bladders  filled  with  peas,  but  if  you  wish  to  know 
more  about  it  you  must  consult  a  science  primer. 

Thunder  and  lightning  are  a  most  exciting  con- 
comitant. When  one  has  been  badly  treated  in  love 
he  looks  for  a  thunderstorm.  He  takes  steel  with 
him.  If  he  has  a  bicycle  he  rides  it  all  about  the 
highest  hills,  hoping  to  be  struck.  Yet  he  does  not 
really  wish  to  die,  for  then  he  would  not  get  home 
to  supper.  He  likes  to  get  close  up  to  Eternity, 
though  he  knows  not  what  it  is.  Neither  does  he 
know  what  it  is  like  to  be  scorched  by  lightning,  but 
he  has  experienced  the  shrivelling  effects  of  unrequited 
longing.  He  must  be  very  bad  to  feel  like  this. 
Let  us  hope  that  we  may  never  feel  so.  I  knew 
a  man  who  took  quite  a  proprietary  interest  in 
thunderstorms.  When  one  was  on,  he  would  say 
(in  effect)  *  what  do  you  think  of  my  little  thunder- 
storm? I  am  clearing  the  air  for  you  wonderfully. 
It  won't  be  like  the  same  country  when  I've  done/ 
It  is  a  very  good  thing  that  we  are  not  proprietors  of 
thunderstorms,  though  we  do  know  so  much  about  them. 

I  have  omitted  to  mention  cyclones  and  anticyclones, 
I  do  so  only  to  conclude  my  essay.  G.  G.  D. 

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§N  Thursday  the  28th  November  1745  the  impor-r 
tant  manufacturing  town  of  Manchester,  which 
with  Salford  had  a  population  of  between 
30,000  and  40,ooo>  was  entered  about  noon  by  a 
sergeant,  a  drummer,  and  a  woman,  who  took  possession 
of  it  in  the  name  of  '^his  sacred  Majesty  King 
James  III."  After  this  exploit  they  dined  at  the 
full's  Head  in  the  market-place,  the  Jacobite  head-^ 
quarters,  and  later  in  the  afternoon  went  out  into 
the  streets  to  beat  up  recruits  for  the  "  yellow-haire4 
laddie."  In  this  occupation  they  were  almost  unmol-^ 
ested,  for  not  only  was  there  a  very  strong  Jacobita 
party  in  the  town,  but  it  was  believed  that  the  victorious 
Highland  invaders  were  close  at  hand.  They  were 
however  some  twenty  miles  off;  and  though  a  small 
advance  party  entered  Manchester  that  evening,  it 
was  not  till  the  following  day  that  the  Young  Chevalier 
himself  arrived  with  the  main  body  of  his  forces. 
The    Prince — in    those    times   cautious   people   wrote 

"the  P ,"   which  you   might  read  "the  Prince" 

or  "the  Pretender"  according  to  your  inclination- 
received  a  loyal  welcome;  the  bells  were  rung,  the 
town  was  illuminated,  a  sermon  in  celebration  of  his 


•  For  this  account  the  following  works  have  been  consulted.  Parentage : 
Notes  to  John  Byrom's  Journals  and  Letters  (Chetham  Society) ;  James 
Dawson  is  once  mentioned  in  the  text,  under  date  July  25,  1735 ;  his  father 
is  frequently  mentioned  up  to  1737.  Story  of  Manchester  Regiment: 
W.  Ray's  Complete  History  of  the  Late  Rebellion;  the  Chevalier  de 
Johnstone's  Memoirs,  Trial  and  Execution :  T.  B.  Howell's  Collection  of 
State  Trials,  vol.  xviii,  cols.  374  to  390  (in  footnotes).  See  also 
W.  Shenstone's  ballad  Jemmy  Dawson,  and  Hanison  Aiosworth's  novel 
The  Manchester  Rebels  of  the  Fatal  '45." 


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arrival  was  preached  in  the  old  collegiate  church,  and 
a  levy  of  ;^3ooo  was  paid.  In  addition  the  sergeant 
had  prospered  so  well  in  his  work  that  he  was  able 
to  hand  in  a  list  of  some  180  persons  who  had 
promised  to  join  the  army.  These  by  the  Prince's 
command  were  formed  into  the  "Manchester  Regi- 
ment," to  which  all  English  recruits  were  to  be  added. 
Its  numbers  however  never  much  exceeded  300. 
Francis  Townley  who  had  already  joined  was  made 
the  colonel.  He  was  a  nephew  of  Richard  Townley 
of  Townley ;  he  had  served  fourteen  years  with  the 
French  Army,  and  had  returned  to  visit  his  friends 
in  England  only  about  twelve  months  before  the 
young  Prince  landed  in  Scotland. 

Among  the  officers  of  this  ill-fated  regiment  was 
a  Johnian,  James  Dawson,  a  man  of  some  private 
fortune,  who  is  described  as  ''a  mighty  gay  young 
gentleman,  who  frequented  much  the  society  of  the 
ladies,  and  was  well  respected  by  all  his  acquaintance 
of  either  sex.'*  We  may  assume  that  this  respect 
was  justified  by  his  conduct,  for  anything  to  his 
discredit  would  have  been  brought  out  at  his  subse- 
quent trial.  Whether,  as  the  novelist  supposes,  it 
Was  through  "the  ladies,"  who  in  Lancashire  were 
supposed  to  be  all  Jacobites,  or  whether  he  was 
captivated  by  the  motto  "Liberty  and  Property: 
Church  and  King,"  which  adorned  the  banners,  is 
uncertain ;  but  whatever  his  motives  he  showed  himself 
"  as  strenuous  in  their  vile  cause  as  any  of  the  rebel 
army,"  His  father  William  Dawson,  son  of  Jonas 
Dawson  of  Barnsley,  was  a  surgeon  practising  in 
Manchester,  where  he  died  in  1763.  His  mother,  his 
father's  first  wife,  was  Elizabeth  Allen,  daughter  of 
Richard  Allen  of  Bury  and  first  cousin  of  a  celebrated 
Manchester  Jacobite,  Dr  John  Byrom,  sometime  Fellow 
of  Trinity,  who  is  still  kept  in  mind  by  his  Christmas 
hymn.  Christians^  awake.  She  died  in  1737,  leaving 
four  children,  James,  William,  and  two  daughters. 


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Having  enlisted  in  a  desperate  enterprise  James 
Dawson  knew  no  looking  back.  Picture  him  then 
with  the  white  cockade  in  his  hat,  his  sword  by  his  ! 

side,  and  his  pistols  in  his  belt,  taking  his  place  as 
a  captain  of  the  Manchester  Regfiment,  when  before 
resuming  his  march  on  London  the  Prince  reviewed 
it — ^in  the  churchyard  of  all  places.  Next  day,  the 
I  St  of  December,  they  left  Manchester,  waded  across 
the  Mersey  near  Stockport,  the  Prince  setting  the 
example,  and  arrived  at  Macclesfield,  where  they  were 
again  reviewed.  Then  passing  through  Congleton 
and  Ashbourne  they  reached  Derby  on  the  4th,  the 
whole  force  at  that  time  being  about  7000  men. 

Meantime  the  Duke  of  Cumberland  had  arrived 
at  Lichfield  to  take  command  of  an  army  of  12,000  men 
stationed  in  the  neighbourhood,  and  Marshal  Wade 
was  hastening  southwards  through  Yorkshire  with 
another  large  force.    While  therefore  the  Highlanders  \ 

were  in  a  state  of  the    greatest  enthusiasm    at   the  | 

prospect  of  battle,  and  were  crowding  round  the  cutlers'  I 

shops  and  quarrelling  as  to  which  should  have  his  ' 

sword  sharpened  first,  and  while  James  Dawson  and 
his  comrades  were  doing  their  best  to  find  recruits 
for  their  regiment,  the  Prince  and  the  Highland  chiefe 
were  consulting  anxiously  as  to  their  movements. 
The  Prince's  great  desire  was  to  push  on  to  London ; 
the  others,  who  were  ready  enough  to  follow  him 
even  to  death,  now  advised  retreat,  because  they  had 
heard  that  reinforcements  were  on  the  way  from 
France.  These  would  make  them  strong  enough  to 
join  battle  with  King  George's  armies  without  relying 
on  help  from  the  English  Jacobites,  who  had  so 
grievously  disappointed  them.  The  Prince  was  at 
last  overborne,  and  retreat  decided  upon. 

Accordingly  on  the  following  morning,  the  6th  of 
December,  after  a  feint  of  advance  in  the  direction 
of  Loughborough,  the  retreat  to  the  north  began, 
to   the   intense    sorrow    of   the    Highlanders.      They 


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rapidly  piissed  through  Lancashire  and  reached  Carlisle 
on  the  19th,  closely  followed  by  the  Duke  of  Cumber- 
land, whose  advance  guard  had  a  skirmish  with 
them  near  Penrith.  On  the  20th  the  Young  Chevalier 
and  his  Highlanders  left  Carlisle,  but  for  some  unknown 
reason  a  garrison  of  over  400  men  was  left  there^ 
though  the  place  was  quite  untenable  and  could  not 
have  stood  a  four  hours'  cannonade.  The  garrison 
consisted  of  about  300  Scots,  chiefly  Lowlanders,  and 
of  the  Manchester  Regiment,  then  reduced  by  death 
or  desertion  to  less  than  half  its  original  numbers. 
On  the  2 1  St  the  city  was  invested  by  the  Duke  of 
Cumberland,  who  had  4000  regulars  with  him  and 
many  "volunteers,"  including  the  "Liverpool  Blues" 
some  600  strong.  Liverpool  it  may  be  remarked  was 
then  intensely  "loyal"  or  Whig,  and  the  "Blues", 
had  done  good  service  by  breaking  down  bridges, 
e.g.  the  bridge  at  Stockport,  in  the  line  of  march  of 
the  Young  Chevalier's  army.  For  a  few  days  the 
besiegers  could  not  attack,  as  they  had  no  artillery, 
but  on  the  28th  they  were  able  to  open  fire  on  the 
defenders'  batteries.  Firing  was  kept  up  on  both 
sides  till  Monday  the  30th,  when  the  garrison  was 
compelled  to  hang  out  the  white  flag  and  capitulate 
on  the  Duke's  terms — "that  they  should  not  be  put 
to  the  sword,  but  reserved  for  the  king's  pleasure." 
They  then  laid  down  their  arms  in  the  market-place,, 
and  retired  to  the  Cathedral,  which  for  a  time  became 
their  prison.  The  Manchester  Regfiment,  now  number-* 
ing  only  116,  thus  ended  its  month's  existence.  The 
rank  and  file  were  allowed  to  disperse;  the  chaplain, 
who  had  been  appointed  "Bishop  of  Carlisle,"  was 
tried  and  executed  in  his  cathedral  city;  the  twenty 
officers  (including  Colonel  Townley  and  Captain 
Dawson)  were  in  January  sent  to  London  to  await 
their  trial,  which  took  place  before  a  special  Com- 
mission at  Southwark  in  the  following  July.  They 
were  accused  of  the  "high   treason  of  levying  wetr 


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against  our  sovereign  lord  the  king  within  this  fealm," 
and  as  they  had  been  taken  in  the  act  there  was  but 
little  to  try. 

James  Dawson  was  brought  up  on  Thursday  the 
1 7th  July ;  it  was  proved  that  he  had  constantly  been 
styled  "captain"  of  the  Manchester  Regiment,  and 
had  acted  as  captain,  more  particularly  at  the  review 
at  Macclesfield;  that  he  had  led  the  cheering  for  the 
Pretender  and  had  tried  to  gain  recruits  for  him; 
that  he  had  mounted  guard  at  Carlisle  in  turn  with 
the  other  officers,  and  continued  to  act  till  the  surrender. 
All  he  could  say  was  that  he  had  been  promised 
mercy  by  the  Duke  of  Cumberland.  He  like  sixteen 
others  was  found  guilty  by  the  jury,  and  sentenced 
to  die  the  traitor's  death — ^to  be  hanged,  drawn,  and 
quartered.  On  being  put  into  irons  he  said,  "He 
did  not  care  if  they  were  to  put  a  ton  weight  of  iron 
on  him,  it  would  not  in  the  least  daunt  his  resolution." 

Nine  of  the  condemned  men  were  executed.  On 
Wednesday  morning  the  30th  of  July,  about  10  o'clock, 
they  were  taken  from  the  Surrey  "New  Gaol"  at 
Southwark  where  they  had  been  confined,  and  drawn 
to  Kennington  Common  on  three  sledges,  Dawson 
lying  on  the  last.  The  way  was  cleared  by  dragoons, 
and  the  prisoners  were  surrounded  by  the  Foot  Gxiards* 
On  the  Common,  around  the  gallows  and  the  fire, 
a  crowd  of  many  thousands  had  assembled  and  waited 
in  silence  through  the  rain  to  see  the  end.  No  minister 
of  religion  attended,  but  one  of  the  condemned  men, 
Mr  Morgan  of  Monmouth,  put  on  his  spectacles  and 
for  half  an  hour  or  so  read  prayers  and  meditations 
from  a  book,  the  others  listening  devoutly.  Then  their 
time  being  come  they  threw  their  prayer-books  and 
printed  papers  into  the  crowd,  and  gave  similar  ones 
to  the  sheriff;  these  papers  affirmed  that  they  were 
not  sorry  for  what  they  had  done,  being  convinced 
that  they  died  in  a  just  cause,  and  that  in  time  their 
death  would  be   avenged.     Each  of  them  also  made 


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a  short  speech,  declaring^  among  other  things  his 
religious  belief:  Townley  and  another  professed  them- 
selves Catholics;  two  were  Non-jurors,  of  whom  a 
congregation  existed  in  Manchester;  Dawson  and  the 
other  four  declared  themselves  members  of  the  Church 
of  England.  They  were  then  "  turned  oflF"  and  executed 
according  to  the  sentence,  Townley  being  the  first. 
Dawson  was  the  last  to  suffer  at  the  hands  of  the 
executioner,  who  as  he  thus  finished  his  task  cried 
"  God  save  King  George ! "  The  multitudes  responded 
with  a  great  shout  and  then  dispersed. 

With  this  dismal  scene  before  him  let  the  reader 
peruse  the  following  incident,  as  related  by  a  con- 
temporary, which  gives  peculiar  pathos  to  James 
Dawson's  story: 

"A  young  lady  of  good  family  and  handsome  fortune 
had  for  some  time  extremely  loved  and  been  equally  beloved 
by  Mr  James  Dawson. .  •  .and  had  he  been  acquitted  or  found 
the  royal  clemency  the  day  after  his  enlargement  was  to  have 
been  that  of  their  marriage....  Not  all  the  persuasions 
of  her  kindred  could  prevent  her  from  going  to  the  place 
of  execution ....  and  accordingly  she  followed  the  sledges  in 
a  hackney  coach  accompanied  by  a  gentleman  nearly  related 
to  her  and  a  female  friend.  She  got  near  enough  to  see 
the  fire  kindled  which  was  to  consume  the  heart  she  knew 
80  much  devoted  to  her,  and  all  the  dreadful  preparations 
for  his  fate,  without  being  guilty  of  any  of  those  extravagances 
her  friends  had  apprehended.  But  when  all  was  over  and 
she  found  he  was  no  more  she  drew  her  head  back  into  the 
coach,  and  crying  out,  '  My  dear,  I  follow  thee  I  Sweet  Jesus, 
receive  both  our  souls  together  I'  fell  back  on  the  neck  of 
her  companion  and  expired  in  the  very  moment  she  was 
speaking." 

The  heads  of  those  executed  were  exposed  in  promi- 
nent positions  in  London  and  elsewhere,  Townley's 
being  fixed  over  Temple  Bar;  but  Dawson's  friends 
must  have  had  influence  at  Court,  for  his  head  and 
quartered  body  were  delivered  up  to  them  for  burial. 


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SONATINA    POETICA 

SENZA  MUSICA.* 

I.    Allegro  e  amoroso. 

We  lay  beneath  tree-shadow 
In  the  full  sun's  summer  shine : 

The  breeze  passed  o'er  the  meadow 
Across  thy  life  and  mine. 

One  Love  we  grew,  one-centred, 
In  the  full  sun's  summer  shine : 

It  seemed  as  though  nought  entered 
Between  thy  lips  and  mine. 

One  Life  we  were,  one-hearted, 
In  the  full  sun's  summer  shine : 

Until,  at  last,  nought  parted 
Thy  lips,  thy  lips  and  mine, 

II.    Largo. 

You  sleep  beneath  the  snows,  love. 

Beside  the  silent  town; 
O'er  you  the  aspen  grows,  love. 

And  near  the  stream  flows  down. 

Here  all  the  busy  day,  love. 

The  noise  of  tumult  roars ; 
Time  holds  us  in  his  sway,  love, 

Eternity  is  yours. 

*  «  Sonatinas  form  one  of  the  least  satisfactory  groups  of  musical  pro* 
ducts.  The  composers . . .  have  uniformly  avoided  them ...  an  anachroubm.'* 
Grove's  Dictionary  of  Music  amd  Musicians, 


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III.    Alia  toccata. 
I.  Summer  in  Winter. 

The  Wind  sweeps  down  the  frozen  street, 
The  sun  is  hid,  the  clouds  are  gray; 

But  since  Love  guides  our  wand'ring  feet 
'Tis  summer  in  the  World  to-day. 

2.  Winter  in  Summer. 

The  World  is  fair  and  warm  the  day, 
The  Sun  shines  in  the  cloudless  sky; 

But  since  dear  Love  has  fled  away 
'Tis  Winter  now  in  Mid-July. 

IV.     Coda. 

'Ever  you  sing  of  Love:   Is    Love   Life's  End  and 
Beginning  ? " 
"  Ever  1  sing  of  Love :  Ever  I  counsel  of  Life." 


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THE  INSULARITY  OF  A  NON-CONDUCTOR. 

3LTHOUGH  the  title  of  this  article  may  seem 
electrical,  when  viewed  in  the  light  of  the 
matter  which  it  contains  even  the  most 
cursory  perusal  will  shew  that  it  is  not  in  the 
least  scientific.  The  object  which  the  writer  of  the 
article  has  in  view  is  to  counteract  what  he  deems  to 
be  one  of  the  most  serious  features  of  our  present-day 
civilisation,  namely  the  ever-growing  tendency  to' laud 
the  travelled  man  as  though  he  were  the  brightest  and 
most  particular  star  in  the  19th  century  firmament. 
The  advantages  of  having  travelled  are  usually  assumed 
to  be  many  and  great ;  indeed,  there  are  some^  who 
make  a  certain  passage  in  the  Book  of  Job  read  as 
though  it  were  "  Man  is  born  to  travel^  as  the  sparks  fly 
upward."  But  we  shall  hope  to  demonstrate  that  the 
disadvantages  of  having  been  abroad  are  so  glaringly 
conspicuous,  that  they  altogether  neutralise  certain 
slight  advantages  to  which  the  tourist  is  in  the 
habit   of  alluding. 

The  disadvantages  of  having  been  abroad  may  be 
roughly  divided  into  three  classes — physical,  social, 
and  moral. 

Let  us  then,  in  the  first  place,  regard  the  question 
from  the  physical  point  of  view.  Certainly  the  most 
glorious  heritage  which  our  ancestors  have  bequeathed 
to  us  is  an  ardent  love  for  all  athletic  pursuits.  It  is 
a  well-known  fact,  for  instance,  that  the  place  which 
cricket  occupies  among  our  national  institutions  makes 
us  an  object  of  envy  to  every  surrounding  nation. 
What  sublimer  spectacle  can  a  true-born  Briton 
present  to  himself  than  that  of  eleven  doughty  men^ 


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clad  in  flannels  of  "more  or  less  spotless  white,  intent 
upon  watching  two  other  men  in  similar  attire,  who, 
with  bats  in  their  hands,  are  trying  "to  steal  runs," 
♦* break  ducks'  eggs,"  and  "punish  the  bowler  by  hitting 
hira  ham  to  the  boundary."  Football  too  (especially 
that  charming  variation  known  as  *  the  Rugby  game '), 
how  richly  does  that  deserve  to  hold  a  prominent  place 
among  our  national  institutions !  The  ancients  (or  at 
any  rate  a  few  of  them)  were  fond  of  expatiating  upon 
the  glories  of  practising  self-control;  but  surely  the 
players  in  a  modem  fifteen  furnish  a  far  more  glowing 
lesson  upon  that  theme  than  did  any  of  the  Stoics* 
The  extreme  forbearance  with  which,  even  under  the 
most  tryiqg  circumstances,  the  opponents  treat  one 
another:  the  scrupulous  manner  in  which  everyone 
refrains  from  doing  the  slightest  injury  to  anyone  else  a 
the  kind,  almost  motherly,  way  in  which  when  the 
game  calls  for  it  one  man  will  charge  another:  the 
tact  and  consideration  which  are  to  be  observed  in  a 
"scrum":  the  reciprocal  give  and  take  principles  which 
actuate  a  man  who  is  engaged  in  a  maul:  do  not  all 
these  most  clearly  show  that  from  the  pastime  of 
football  some  most  valuable  lessons-  may  be  drawn  ? 

There  is  not  sufficient  space  for  us  to  enlarge  upon 
the  obvious  merits  of  boating  and  tennis :  suffice  it  to 
say,  that  athletics  lie  at  the  very  basis  of  all  ouc 
national  greatness. 

But  now  comes  the  awful  and  gruesome  fact  that 
in  nine  cases  out  of  ten  the  travelled  man  despises 
athletics.  He  prefers  to  race  for  a  train  rather  than  to 
train  for  a  race.  On  the  Continent  he  discovers  that 
it  is  possible  for  a  nation  to  be  successful  in  peace  and 
victorious  in  war,  without  ascribing  these  blessed 
results  to  "the  playing  fields  of  Eton"  or  anywhere 
else.  He  finds  out  in  course  of  time  that  it  is  possible 
to  lead  a  passable,  and  even  happy,  existence  where  these 
delightful  pursuits  are  conspicuous  by  their  absence. 
At  first  he  is  shocked  by  all  these   gprievous  signs. 


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Perhaps,  at  the  outset,  he  may  take  upon  himself  ta 
convert  the  -  Continent  to  cricket  by  starting  a  club 
to  set  forth  the  principles  of  the  game:  which  club, 
having  been  started  at  great  expense,  langruishes  for 
a  time  and  then  finally  dies  '^unwept,  unli^noured, 
and  unsung" — and  the  Continent  is  still  unconverted. 

But  let  us  not  follow  the  progress  of  that  guilty  soul 
in  whom  the  taste  for  athletic  pastimes  has  slowly 
withered  to  decay :  let  us  draw  a  veil  over  the  circum- 
stances which  gradually  conduce  to  his  miserable  end : 
suffice  it  to  say,  that  at  Rome  he  eventually  begins  to 
do  as  the  Romans  do :  he  one  by  one  abjures  all  the 
healthful  manly  sports  upon  which  his  country's  g^reat- 
ness  has  been  built  up ;  and,  awfiil  to  relate,  he  finds  it 
fleasant.  The  travelled  man,  upon  his  return,  is 
henceforth  good  for  nothing,  so  far  as  proficiency  in 
our  noble  English  games  is  concerned:  he  is  more 
firequently  to  be  observed  smoking  a  cigar  in  a  hansom 
cab  than  applauding  a  dropped  goal  from  the  centre  of 
an  honest  howling  throng. 

But  if  the  physical  disadvantages  of  having  been 
abroad  are  so  dire,  surely  the  social  drawbacks  are 
more  conspicuous.  And  the  reason  of  this  it  is  not 
difficult  to  see. 

The  population  of  the  British  Islands  is  roughly 
speaking  37  millions.  Now  it  can  be.  proved  by  the 
most  reliable  of  statistics  (vide  Barker's  Facls  and 
Ftgures\  that  at  the  very  outside  only  one  million 
of  these  have  ever  wished  their  native  land  Good-nighf. 
That  is  to  say,  36  people  out  of  37  have  never  been 
abroad.  Picture  then  the  lot  of  that  miserable  man, 
^vho  by  having  travelled  has  condemned  himself  for 
evermore  to  remain  in  a  minority  of  one.  Is  it  not 
a  fact,  of  which  every  Briton  worthy  the  name  is 
justly  proud,  that  with  minorities  we  have  no  sympathy  ? 
Is  not  the  majority  always  in  the  right?  Therefore, 
for  a  man  to  have  been  as  far  as  Calais  is  for  him 
perpetual    banishment    from    the  sympathies    of   his 


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fellows.  But  after  all,  the  ostracism  of  the  man  who 
has  been  abroad  is  richly  deserved.  For,  of  all  those 
grievous,  deadly,  pestiferous  bores  whose  presence 
at  an  evening  party  casts  a  gloom  deeper  than  the 
deepest  darkness,  surely  by  far  the  most  hideous  and 
most  detestable  is  the  man  whose  character  we  are 
considering  in  this  article.  It  is  he  who  freezes  the 
steady  flow  of  genial  conversation,  in  a  way  that 
description  cannot  paint,  and  only  experience  can 
fitly  realise. 

Should  the  conversation  turn  upon  art,  he  will  forth- 
with bore  you  with  a  description  of  the  Madonna  which 
he  has  seen  at  Dresden,  or  the  masterpiece  of  Rubens 
upon  which  he  has  gazed  in  the  *  dim  religious  light '  of 
Antwerp's  famed  Cathedral :  should  you  talk  of  music, 
its  soothing  power  will  soon  be  needed  to  charm  into 
quietude  your  breast  made  savage  by  his  allusions 
to  some  German  band  which  he  once  heard  play  upon 
the  margin  of  the  Rhine.  Should  literature  be  the 
topic,  he  will  gravely  relate  how  upon  one  occasion 
he  jostled  Dumas  upon  the  Parisian  Boulevards: 
should  you  in  despair  turn  the  conversational  hose 
upon  the  subject  of  great  speakers,  he  will  rudely 
tear  it  from  your  grasp,  and  deluge  you  with  facts 
concerning  the  occasion  upon  which  he  listened  to 
Bismarck  from  the  Strangers'  Gallery  of  the  Reichstagi 

But  all  these  facts,  awful  of  import  as  they  may 
be,  pale  almost  into  insignificance  when  compared 
with  the  moral  disadvantages  which  invariably  ensue 
from  travelling. 

It  is  a  circumstance  which  we  think  has  not 
received  due  consideration  that  the  first  traveller 
of  whom  we  have  any  authentic  record  was  at 
the  same  time  the  first  murderer.  Cain  was  "a 
fugitive  and  vagabond  upon  the  face  of  the  earth," 
which  is  no  doubt  the  Biblical  way  of  expressing 
the  fact  that  he  was  a  great  traveller.  Indeed,  the 
Bible  is  full  of  warnings  directed  against  those  who 


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are  given  to  wandering.  Esau  seems  to  have  had 
a  partiality  for  moving  about,  and  we  all  know  the 
punishment  which  was  reserved  for  him.  To  go  to 
profane  history,  Ulysses  was  a  man  who  had  seen 
both  many  men  and  many  cities,  and  how  many 
people  have  cursed  the  fate  which  has  obliged  them  to 
read  the  history  of  his  travels !  And  to  come  to  modem 
travellers,  even  the  great  Stanley  himself  has  lost 
his  reputation  owing  to  his  having  been  abroad. 

We  make  bold  to  say  that  no  great  traveller 
ever  returns  to  his  native  shores  with  the  same  feelings 
of  noble  single-minded  patriotism  with  which  his 
soul  was  full  when  he  started  out.  Patriotism  is 
grounded  upon  contempt  for  people  not  of  the 
same  race  with  ourselves.  It  is  nourished  by  the 
ignorance  of  foreign  customs,  which  we  know  and 
feel  must  be  necessarily  worse  than  our  own.  To 
cease  to  believe  that  one  Englishman  is  equal  to 
six  Frenchmen  is  to  abandon  patriotism  for  ever. 
Is  it  not  the  most  cherished  article  in  our  national 
creed  that  the  lively  Gaul  subsists  altogether  upon 
frogs:  that  the  German  Jives  exclusively  upon  sauer- 
kraut; that  the  one  and  only  meal  of  which  the 
Spaniard  daily  partakes  is  garlic  washed  down  with 
oil:  and  that  the  Italian  undermines  his  constitution, 
and  undersells  English  labour  at  the  same  time,  by 
rigidly  excluding  from  his  menu  everything  except 
maccaroni?  We  triumphantly  assert,  knowing  that 
none  will  dare  to  contradict  us,  that  patriotism  is 
built  upon  "  facts  "  such  as  these ;  and  that  the  English 
Constitution  would  fall  were  we  not  always  and  every- 
where to  dub  the  inhabitants  of  foreign  shores  with 
the  same  appellation  that  we  bestow  upon  a  certain 
class  of  oysters — natives.  But  the  man  who  has  been 
abroad  sees  that  these  things  are  not  so :  he  realises 
that  the  German  does  not  deem  our  army  superior  to  his 
own :  that  the  Frenchman  is  perverse  enough  to  doubt 
whether  Great  Britain  is  the  "  hub  of  the  universe : " 


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and  consequently,  his  patriotism  becomes  enfeebled, 
atrophied,  dead. 

Every  traveller  is  or  rapidly  becomes  a  moral 
Wreck.  The  student  of  law  arrived  at  the  Continent 
Speedily  finds  himself  called  to  the  bar:  our  sisters 
who  at  home  go  to  church  to  close  their  eyes,  abroad 
go  to  concerts  to  eye  their  clothes:  the  naval  officer 
is  more  frequently  to  be  seen  compassing  a  box  than 
boxing  a  compass.  For  all  these  reasons,  and  for 
many  more  which  our  space  prevents  us  from 
enumerating,  we  pray  and  beseech  our  readers  to  stay 
at  home.  For  generations  upon  the  tombstones  of 
our  country  churchyards  the  lesson  which  this  article 
teaches  has  been  sounded  forth.  On  hundreds  of 
them  are  to  be  read  the  words  "Traveller,  pause, 
pause  ere  it  is  too  late."  We  join  our  voice  to  the 
cry  which  comes  from  the  cemetery:  and  if  any  of 
our  readers  who  have  followed  us  so  far  with  profit 
to  themselves,  will  follow  our  advice  and  go  not 
abroad,  then  the  insularity  which  will  become  part 
of  their  natures  will  prevent  them  from  falling  into 
those  manifold  and  grievous  errors,  that  always 
and  everywhere  accrue  firom  having  passed  the  limits 
of  one's  native  shores. 

G.  H.  R.  G. 


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HISTORY  OF  THE  LADY  MARGARET  BOAT 

CLUB. 

We  are  requested  by  the  authors  of  the  History 
of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club  to  call  attention  to 
the  following  corrigenda. 
p.  68.    In  the  Exeter  crew  the  weights  of  2  and  3 

should  be  9St.  3lbs.  and  gst.  81bs.,  respectively, 
p.  70.     Second  boat  crew :  for  W.  H.  L.  Pattison  read 

W.  H.  L.  Pattisson.    AJso  on  pp.  71,  74,  76. 
p.  79.    Colquhoun    Sculls.      For    G.    H.    Paley    read 

G.  A.  Paley. 
p.  88.    Third    boat:    for    E.    Carpmael    read  Ernest 

Carpmael.  Also  on  p.  89  (Second  boat),  p.  93  (First 

boat),  p.  94  (Trial  Eights),  p.  95  (First  boatX  p-  97 

(First  boat),  p.  98  (Four). 
p.  99      Second  hodXx  for   E.   Carpmael  read  Edward 

Carpmael.    Also  on  p.  10 1,  (second  boat),  p.   185 

(Third  Boat)  Lent  1870,  1871. 
p.  153.    The  Second  boat  crew  should  be  : — 
J.  Collin  {bow).         5.     T.  H.  Kirby. 

2.  G.  T.  Lloyd.  6.    L.  H.  K.  Bushe-Fox. 

3.  L.  H.  NichoU.  7.     W.  N.  Roseveare. 

4.  T.  T.  Lancaster.  T.  Ashburner  {stk). 
p.  180.     Winners  of  the  Colquhoun  Sculls. 

1838.    Mr  Bemey  is  erroneously  entered  as  second. 
Mr  Bemey  was  obliged  to  resign  the  Sculls  this 
year  and  did  not  take  part  in  the  race, 
p.  182.     To  the  list  of  First  Class  men  add  : — 
C.  W.  Bourne. . .  .26th  Wrangler  1868. 
A.  E.  Foster. . . .  .8th  Wrangler  1886. 
S.  A.  S.  Ram. .  .  .Classical  Tripos  1886. 
p,  185.     Third  boat.  May  1877,  read  W.  J.  Lee  {bow). 

7  G.  D.  Haviland. 
p.  186.    Third  boat.  May  1878,  read  i  G.  G.  Wilkinson. 
Fourth  boat.  Lent  1 88 1 ,  readT.  E.  Cleworth(^/>fe). 
Third  boat.  Lent   1886, /c;r  S.  A.  Ram,  read 
S.  A.  S.  Ram. 


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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Mission  Reports. 

To  the  Editors  of  the   *  Eagle? 
Dear  Sirs, 

May  I  ask  whether  any  readers  of  the  Eagle  could 
oblige  the  Committee  of  the  Walworth  Mission  with  a  copy 
of  the  Mission  Report  for  1886  or  1887?  We  should  like 
to  bind  up  four  sets,  but  have  only  one  copy  for  1887,  and 
therefore  cannot  do  this  unless  some  subscribers  who  have 
kept  their  copies  would  spare  them  for  us.  Our  four  copies 
of  the  1886  Report  are  rather  damaged,  but  they  will  serve 
unless  others  are  forthcoming.  The  absence  of  the  1887 
ones  leaves  us  at  a  standstill. 

I  am 
Yours  faithfully, 

A.  Caldecott 

« '  Senior  Secretary, 


Carmen  Commemorationis. 


Dear  Mr  Editor, 

I  too  have  discovered  MSS;  though  where  I  discovered 
them,  I,  like  the  British  Museum,  do  not  feel  bound  to  say. 
Suffice  it,  that  the  public  now  has  the  benefit  of  my  research,  in 
the  discovery  of  an  ancient  ode.  With  this  ode  I  believe  the 
hall  of  our  College  was  once  wont  to  resound  on  Commemora- 
tion-day.  For  why?  Turn  to  the  internal  evidence  and  the 
thing  is  patent.  Aula  JohniensiSy  fundatrix  Margareta^  veteris 
Johannie^  allow  of  only  one  inference:  we  may  therefore 
acquiesce  in  the  conclusion  I  have  stated  above.  As  to 
date,  I  should  place  this  ode  early  in  the  sixteenth  century. 
This  will  make  it  the  more  interesting,  as  one  of  the  latest 
utterances  of  the  Monkish  Muse  ere  she  was  finally  silenced  by 
the  ruthless  rigour  of  the  Reformation. 
I  am,  Sir, 

Yours  very  veraciously, 

Simon  Shafeirides. 
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CARMEN  COMMEMORATIONIS. 

Dies  festa,  dies  laeta 
Quam  fiindatrix  Margareta 
In  perpetuum  beavit 
Quando  cenam  ordinavit; 
Anni  decus  orientis, 
Mali  gloria  florentis, 
Te,  in  aulam  dum  intramus, 
Cenaturi  salutamud. 

O  quam  es  comissabunday 
Convivalis  et  jucnnda, 
Quantis  salibus  abundas, 
Et  facetiis  redundas; 
Vino  recreas  majores, 
Cibo  juvas  juniores; 
Ergo  risibus  tintinnis 
Et  innumeris  cachmnis. 

Splendet  Aula  Johniensis 
Large  oneratis  mensis, 
Gemit  epulis  confertis. 
Floret  odoratis  sertis, 
Lucet  auro  et  argento, 
Prisco  cenae  instrumento, 
Nitet  poculis  nefandam 
Sitim  aptis  ad  sedandam. 

Primum  ergo  quem  cantemus 
Nisi  te,  cui  tot  debemus, 
Magnam  regum  genitricem, 
Et  coUegi  fundatricem  ? 


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COMMEMORATION  ODE. 

Oh!  htppy  day  and  festive! 

That  I^dy  Margaret  blest 
For  ever  with  a  banquet 

Ordained  in  her  bequest. 
Thou  beauty  of  the  springtide ! 

Thou  glory  of  the  May ! 
Lo!   as  we  go  to  dinner 

We  greet  thee  by  the  way. 

How  full  tbou  art  of  joyaunce! 

How  thronged  with  many  a  guest! 
With  quip  and  crank  how  brimful! 

Thou  runnest  o'er  with  Jest. 
With  cheer  the  young  thou  gladd'nest. 

The  old  dost  bless  with  wine, 
And  so  innumerous  laughter 

And  boundless  mirth  are  thine ! 

With  tables  richly  laden 

Flashes  this  hall  of  ours ; 
It  groans  'neath  many  dainties, 

It  blooms  with  scented  flowers. 
It  shines  with  gold  and  silver. 

To  feasting  consecrate. 
It  gleams  with  cooling  goblets, 

Our  summer  thirst  to  bate. 

Whom  should  we  hymn  before  thee, 
Whose  name  ere  thine  resound. 

Great  Mother  of  our  Monarchs, 
Who  didst  our  College  found? 


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560  Carmen  Commemoraiionis. 

Simul  resonent  quot  annis 
Laudes  veteris  Johannis, 
Optimi  episcoporumy 
Principisque  Piscatorum. 

Ave,  ave,  dies  festa, 
Generosa  et  honesta, 
Ecce  jam  libamus  merum 
Tibi,  floscule  dierum ! 
Cras  sit  luctus  adventuruSy 
Cras  sit  Tripus  invasurus; 
Hodie  vivamus  bene, 
Nunc  indulgeamus  cenae! 


CHANSON. 

Amants,  quelle  erreur  est  la  v6tre 
Si  vous  vous  croyez  s6par6s ! 

Si  vos  cceurs  sont  faits  Tun  pour  I'autre^ 
Tdt  ou  tard  vous  vous  rejoindrez. 

Ni  le  sort  et  son  injustice 
Nt  les  p^res  et  leurs  serments 

N'empSchent  que  tout  aboutisse 
A  la  rencontre  des  amants! 

Anon. 


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Therewith  be  yearly  chanted 

The  praise  of  ancient  John, 
Of  John,  the  best  of  bishops, 

Of  Fishers  paragon. 

We  hail  thee  and  we  bless  thee 

For  ever  and  for  aye ; 
We  toast  thee  in  the  grace-cup. 

Commemoration  day ! 
To-morrow  be  there  Tripos,  ^ 

To-morrow  come  there  care, 
To-day  at  least  in  gladness 

Right  royally  we'll  fare! 


SONG. 

O  foolish  lovers,  never  feign 
That  ye  are  parted! 
Be  stouter-hearted! 
If  ye  within 
Be  truly  kin. 
Yell  meet  again! 

How  idle  is  a  father's  heat! 
How  unavailing 
Is  Fortune's  railing! 
To  this  one  end 
All  force  doth  bend — 
That  lovers  meet! 

G.  C.  M.  S. 


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The  Right  Honourable  the  Earl  of  Fowis 
High  Steward  tfthe  Univeniiy^ 

It  is  with  feelings  of  dopp  regret  that  we  record  the  death 
of  this  most  distinguished  member  of  the  College,  which 
occurred  somewhat  unexpectedly  on  Thursday  May  7th.  For 
some  short  time  he  had  shewed  signs  of  failing  health,  and 
on  the  27th  of  April ^e  underwent  an  operation,  from  which 
he  seemed  to  be  making  a  very  favourable  recovery.  His 
strength  however  failed,  and^  he  gradually  sank,  the  news 
of  his  death  causing  general  surprise  and  wide-spread  sorrow. 

Edward  James  Herbert,  Earl  of  Powis  in  the  county  of 
Montgomery,  Viscount  Clive  of  Ludlow,  Baron  Herbert  of 
Cherbury  in  the  county  of  Salop,  and  Baron  Powis  of  Powis 
Castle,  county  Montgomery,  all  in  the  United  Kingdom,  Barou 
Clive  of  Walcot  in  the  county  of  Salop,  in  Great  Britain, 
and  Baron  Clive  of  Plassy,  in  Ireland,  was  bom  on  November  5, 
1 8 18,  at  a  little  cottage  on  the  roadside  near  Pershore  in 
Worcestershire,  his  mother  Lucy,  the  third  daughter  of  James 
the  third  Duke  of  Montrose,  being  at  the  time  on  a  journey 
from  Powis  Castle  to  London.  He  was  the  great-grandson 
of  the  celebrated  Robert  Clive,  to  whom  the  establishment 
of  the  British  rule  in  India  is  in  a  great  measure  due,  and 
who  for  his  services  in  that  country,  especially  at  Pondicherry,  at 
Arcot,  and  also  at  Plassy,  where  with  3000  men  he  utterly  routed 
the  Surajah  Dowlah  at  the  head  of  70,000  troops,  was  in  176a 
created  Baron  Clive  of  Plassy  in  Ireland.  His  son  and 
successor,  Edward,  married  Henrietta  Antonia,  the  daughter 
of  Henry  Arthur  Herbert,  Earl  of  Powis,  and  sister  and  heiress 
of  George  Edward  Henry  Arthur,  the  last  Earl  of  Powis 
of  the  family  of  Herbert.  This  lady  was  the  heiress  and 
sole  representative  of  that  branch  of  the  very  ancient  family  of 
Herbert,  to  which  belonged  the  well-known  Edward,  first 
Lord  Herbert  of  Cherbury,  his  brother,  George  Herbert  the  poet, 
and  William,  the  third  Baron  who  was  advanced  to  the  Earldom 


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of  Powis  in  1674,  and  further  to  the  Marquisate  of  Powis 
in  1687,  and  afterwards  by  James  II,  whom  he  followed  to 
France  was  made  Duke  of  Powis,  and  Marquess  of  Montgomery, 
In  consequence  of  this  marriage  the  second  Baron  Clive 
assumed  the  name  of  Herbert  and  received  a  grant  of  all  the 
other  titles  borne  by  the  lately  deceased  Earl.  The  second 
Earl  was  well-known  for  his  earnest  support  of  the  Church 
in  all  matters  affecting  its  interests.  He  was  brought  forward 
in  1847  ^  ^  candidate  for  the  Chancellorship  of  the  University 
of  Cambridge,  but  was  opposed  by  the  Prince  Consort,  who 
was  successM  by  a  small  majority. 

The  third  Earl,  just  deceased,  was  educated  at  Eton,  whence 
he  came  to  St  John's.  He  took  his  degree  in  1840,  being 
eleventh  in  the  First  Class  of  the  Classical  Tripos :  the  Senior 
Classic  was  the  late  Archdeacon  France,  formerly  Tutor  of 
St  John's,  and  Dr  Atlay,  also  at  one  time  Tutor  of  St  John*s 
and  now  Bishop  of  Hereford,  was  bnu:keted  ninth.  He  pro- 
ceeded to  the  degree  of  LL.D.  in  iBf^*  He  occupied  a  seat 
in  the  House  of  Commons  as  Member  for  North  Shropshire 
from  1843  to  January  17,  1848,  when  he  sutoeeded  his  father, 
who  had  died  from  the  effects  of  a  gunshot  Wound  received 
accidentally  whilst  shooting. 

The  list  of  offices  and  appointments  held  at  various  times 
by  the  late  Earl  is  a  long  one,  but  will  shew  the  keexr  interest 
he  at  all  times  took  in  public  matters.  In  1878  he  was 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  South  Salop  Yeomanry  Cavalry. 
He  had  been  a  Magistrate  for  46  years,  and  since  1851  had 
been  Chairman  of  the  Montgomeryshire  Quarter  Sessions. 

In  1864  he  was  made  a  Deputy-Lieutenant  for  Salop, 
in  1862  he  was  made  a  Deputy-Lieutenant  for  Montgomery- 
shire, and  was  appointed  Lord-Lieutenant  of  the  latter  county 
in  1877.  Throughout  his  life  he  took  a  very  keen  interest 
in  educational  matters.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
President  of  the  University  College  of  North  Wales  at  Bangor ; 
Bangor;  and  a  touching  notice  In  memortam  Praesidis  nosiri 
appears  in  the  first  number  of  the  College  Magazine.  He 
was  also  a  Governor  of  Shrewsbury  School,  and  a  nominee 
of  the  Government  on  the  Montgomeryshire  Joint  Education 
Committee,  in  which  capacity  he  took  a  leading  part  in 
framing  the  scheme  of  Intermediate  Education  recently  issued. 
He  received  the  honorary  degree  of  D.C.L.  at  Oxford  in  1857. 


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In  1864,  on  the  death  of  Lord  Lyndhurst,  he  was  elected 
without  opposition  to  the  office  of  High  Steward  of  the 
University  of  Cambridge.  This  was  a  distinction  which  he 
greatly  prized,  and  he  gladly  availed  himself  of  two  oppor- 
tunities, which  presented  themselves  to  him  in  that  capacity, 
of  shewing  his  affection  for  the  University.  A  prize  medal  had 
been  originally  given  by  the  Marquess  Camden  when  Chahcellor 
of  the  University,  and  continued  annually  by  his  son,  bat 
on  the  death  of  the  latter  in  1866  it  was  discontinued.  Lord 
Powis  since  then  annually  gave  the  Powis  Medal,  which  is 
for  a  poem  in  Latin  Hexameters.  He  also  augmented  the 
Sir  Wm  Browne  benefaction,  so  that  four  medals  can  now 
be  given  instead  of  the  three  originally  provided  for.  Lord 
Powis  was  a  liberal  subscriber  to  the  new  Chapel  at  St  John's, 
and  defrayed  the  cost  of  filling  the  five  windows  in  the  apse 
With  stained  glass. 

Lord  Powis  had  been  for  many  years  the  leading  authority 
in  his  own  neighbourhood,  but  on  the  passing  of  the  Local 
Government  Act  1888  a  considerable  part  of  the  power  of 
which  he  had  held  chief  share  passed  into  the  hands  of  the 
newly-constituted  County  Councils.  Many  a  man,  especially 
one  in  advancing  years,  would  have  made  this  an  excuse 
for  withdrawing  from  public  life ;  but  Lord  Powis  accepted 
the  new  situation  with  perfect  dignity.  He  was  at  once 
elected  an  Alderman  of  the  Shropshire  County  Council: 
he  contested  a  seat  on  the  Montgomeryshire  County  Council 
as  representative  of  the  Borough  of  Welshpool,  and  was 
returned  at  the  head  of  the  poll  by  a  large  majority,  carrying 
with  him  three  colleagues  of  his  own  opinions.  He  threw 
himself  earnestly  into  the  work  of  the  Councils,  and  there 
was  no  member  whose  opinion  was  received  with  more 
deference. 

Lord  Powis  was  the  owner  of  large  landed  estates  in  Shrop- 
shire and  Montgomeryshire,  amounting  to  upwards  of  60,000 
acres.  From  the  Herberts  he  inherited  the  estates  at  Lymore, 
Mathyrafel,  and  Llyssyn,  from  the  Clives  those  of  Walcot  and 
Styche.  He  used  to  spend  a  considerable  time  at  the  chief 
residence, Powis  Castle  near  Welshpool,  and  Walcot  near  Bishop's 
Castle  was  also  a  favourite  seat  of  his.  He  had  residences  also  at 
Lymore  near  Montgomery,  at  Maesllymestyn,  and  in  London, 
and  amongst  his  neighbours  and  friends  in  all  these  places  he 


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vas  nniversally  esteemed  and  respected.  As  a  landlord  he 
bad  a  character  without  reproach,  and  the  position  of  tenant 
on  one  of  his  estates  was  regarded  with  high  favour.  Most 
of  his  farms  have  been  occupied  by  the  same  families  for 
generations.  By  his  death  the  Church  has  lost  an  ally  and 
friend,  whom  it  will  be  difficult  to  replace.  His  liberality 
towards  Church  objects  seemed  to  know  no  bounds.  He 
contributed  largely  to  the  restoration  ^and  endowment  of 
churches,  especially  those  with  which  he  was  in  any  way 
personally  connected,  and  to  the  provision  of  Curates  and. 
additional  services.  In  recognition  of  his  gifts  he  was  appointed 
4  Member  of  the  Board  of  Governors  of  Queen  Anne's  Bounty* 
Be  was  patron  of  fifteen  livings. 

In  politics  he  was  a  sincere  and  consistent  Conservative.. 
His  views  were,  as  was  perhaps  natural,  those  of  the  older 
school,  but  he  always  expressed  them  with  courtesy  and 
moderation^  and  was  respected  by  his  opponents  as  well  aa. 
by  his  friends.  In  all  quarters  his  loss  will  be  deeply  felti 
and  it  will  be  long  before  the  gap  which  his  death  has  caused, 
can  be  filled  up. 

He  is  succeeded  in  his  title  and  estates  by  bis  nephew 
George  Charles  Herbert,  the  only  surviving  son  of  his  brother^ 
the  Rt  Hon  General  Sir  Percy  Herbert,  M.P„  P.C.,  K.C.B  ,  who, 
died  in  1877.  The  new  Earl  is  also  a  member  of  St  John's 
College,  and  took  his  B.A.  degree  in  i885« 


Thb  Right  Honourablb  Lokl)  HsYTEsfiuRY. 

The  Rt  Hon  William  Henry  Ashe  a*  Court  Holmes,  Baron 
Heytesbury,  died  at  Heytesbury  House,  Wilts,  on  Tuesday, 
April  21.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  first  Baron  Heytesbury, 
and  was  born  on  July  1 1,  1 809.  His  mother  was  Maria  Rebecca, 
second  daughter  of  the  Hon  W.  H.  Bouverie  and  grand-daughter 
of  the  first  Earl  of  Radnor.  The  late  peer's  father,  wha 
was  created  a  Baron  of  the  United  Kingdom  in  1828,  was 
a  Privy  Councillor  and  G.C.B.,  a  distinguished  diplomatist, 
and  a  British  envoy  in  various  countries.  He  was  Ambassador 
at  the  Court  of  St  Petersburg  1828—1832,  and  on  his  return 
from  Russia  was  nominated  as  Governor*General  of  India, 
but  the  Ministry  of  the  day  breaking  up,  he  never  wen} 
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out.  Hb  was  also  Lord-Lieutenant  of  Ireland  ^844 — 1846/ 
The  Heytesbury  estates  originally  belonged  to  the  Hungerford 
family,  and  passed  through  marriage  to  Lord  Hastings,  then 
to  Wm  Ashe,  and  then  to  Pierce  a'  Court  Ashe,  and  since 
that  time  have  been  handed  down  in  the  direct  line.  Up 
to  the  passing  of  the  first  Reform  Bill  in  1832,  when  the 
borough  was  disfranchised,  Heytesbuiy  was  represented  in^ 
the  House  of  Commons  by  a  member  of  the  family.  The 
deceased  lord  was  educated  at  Eton,  and  afterwards  came  to 
St  John's  College,  where  he  took  his  M.A.  degree  in  i83i«^ 
Two  years  later  he  married  Elizabeth,  the  eldest  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Sir  Leonard  Thomas  Worsley  Holmes,  Bart.^ 
of  Westover,  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and  assumed  the  name 
of  Holmes  by  royal  licence.  The  issue  of  this  marriage 
was  ten  sons  and  four  daughters.  The  eldest  son  was  the 
Hon  Wm  Leonard,  also  of  St  John's,  who  was  bom  in  1835, 
and  who  married  in  1861  Isabella  Sophia,  the  eldest  daughter 
of  the  late  Canon  a'  Court  Beadon.  The  Hon  Wm  Leonard 
died  in  1885,  at  the  age  of  50,  leaving  bia^ind  him  eevea 
sons  and  three  daughters.  The  eldest  son,  WiUiam  Frederick, 
^ho  now  succeeds  to  his  grandfather's  title  and  estates, 
was  bom  in  1862,  and  married  in  1887  Margaret  Anne, 
daughter  of  the  late  Mr  J.  W.  Harman  of  Frome.  The  late 
peer  ailer  his  marriage  resided  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  and 
unsuccessfully  contested  the  borough  of  Newport  in  the 
Conservative  interest.  He  was  subsequently  returned  for 
the  county,  and  sat  in  the  House  of  Commons  from  1837 
to  1847.  On  the  death  of  his  father,  in  i860,  he  removed 
to  Heytesbury  House,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until 
his  death.  He  was  a  warm  supporter  of  the  Conservative 
cause,  though  tolerant  of  the  political  opinions  of  others. 
Throughout  the  district  he  was  esteemed  and  beloved,  and 
will  be  sorely  missed  by  rich  and  poor  alike.  Until  increasing 
age  and  infirmities  prevented  his  attendance  he  was  a  well* 
known  figure  on  the  county  bench,  and  he  took  a  lively 
interest  in  all  county  business  at  the  Quarter  Sessions.  He 
was  a  deputy-lieutenant  for  Wilts,  Dorset,  and  Hants.  As 
an  ex'officio  member  of  the  Warminster  Board  of  Guardians 
he  displayed  great  interest  in  the  administration  of  the  poor 
law.  He  was  a  warm  supporter  of  the  parish  schools  and 
paid  especial  attention  to  all  matters  concerning  the  parish 


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€hm:h.  It  was  chiefly  owing  to  his  interest  and  active 
exertions  that  the  church  was  so  handsomely  restored  at  a 
great  cost  some  twenty  years  ago«  One  of  the  original 
members  of  the  Diocesan  Synodi  he  was  constant  in  his 
attendance  until  age  and  infirmities  made  it  practically 
impossible.  .  ) 


Sir  Patiuck  Colquhoun. 


The  Editors  of  the  Eagle^  which  has  lost  in  Sir  Patrick 
Colquhoun  a  loyal  and  generous  friend,  are  much  indebted 
to  Mr  Percy  W.  Ames,  Secretary  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Literature,  of  which  our  late  Honorary  Fellow  was  President^ 
for  the  following  sjrmpathetic  notice  of  his  life. 

Near  a  solitary  chapel  among  the  heather  at  Brookwood 
repose  the  remains  of  Patrick  Colquhoun.  He  died  on 
May  18  after  a  very  brief  illness  of  about  four  days,  and  only 
ceased  to  attend  to  his  affairs  when  his  papers  were,  removed 
by  the  express  orders  of  his  medical  attendant.  In  such 
solemn  stillness  as  fitly  reigns  over  his  last  earthly  resting- 
place,  we  can  best  reflect  upon  the  character  of  this  remarkable 
man,  and  more  justly  estimate  his  wide  learning,  his  linguistic 
skill,  and  his  rich  and  varied  endowments,  than  while  these 
were  employed  in  the  aflairs  of  life,  and  eclipsed  by  the 
interest  of  the.  subjects  they  served  to  illustrate.  Nothing, 
probably,  could  more  expressively  indicate  the  versatility  of 
Sir  Patrick  Colquhoun  than  a  list  of  his  friends  and  corre- 
spondents. He  was  held  in  high  esteem  by  men  of  widely 
varied  pursuits,  of  many  races  and  languages,  and  of  all 
degrees  in  learning.  Possessing  a  mind  of  extraordinary 
practical  and  administrative  power,  and  an  available  knowledge 
>of  Sieveral  modern  languages,^  he  excited  the  admiration  of 
all  men  of  public  or  private  business  who  knew  him.  His 
acquaintance  with  Greek  and  Latin  antiquities,  and  his  trans- 
lations of  valuable  treatises  on  Classical  subjects,  such  aa 
the  excursus  of  Professor  Ulrichs  of  Athens  on  the  Topography 
jo/  the  Homeric  Ilium^  as  well  as  his  original  works,  placed 
^m  in  the  ranks  of  European  scholars,  and  he  had  lately 


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■  been  appointed  President  of  the  organising  Committee  of  tlie 
Ninth  Statutory  Congress  of  Orientalists  to  be  held  this  year 
in  London.  By  lawyers  he  is  known  as  the  author  of  A 
Summary  of  the  Roman  Civil  Law  illustrated  by  Commentaries 
and  parallels  from  the  Mosaic^  Canon^  Mahomedan^  English 
and  Foreign  Laws^  and  of  various  treatises  on  legal  and 
political  subjects  in  different  languages. 

He  had  been  called  to  the  Bar  in  1838,  and  appointed 
one  of  Her  Majesty's  Counsel  in  1868,  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Ionian  Isles  1861-4,  and  a  few  years  ago  Treasurer  of  the 
Inner  Temple.  In  Freemasonry  he  distinguished  himself 
among  the  Masonic  order  of  Knights  Templars,  of  which 
he  was  Chancellor.  He  was  elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal 
Society  of  Literature  in  1845,  when  Henry  Hallam  wais 
President.  He  was  placed  on  the  Council  in  1846,  made 
Librarian  in  1852,  Vice-President  in  1869,  and  President  in 
succession  to  H.R.H.  the  late  Duke  of  Albany  in  1886.  He 
continued  an  active  member  of  this  Spciety  until  his  death, 
contributing  numerous  valuable  papers  to  its  Transactions, 
And  presided  at  a  meeting  of  the  Council  the  veiy  day  before 
he  was  seized  with  his  last  illness. 

His  aptitude  for  public  affairs  was  illustrated  in  early  life, 
when  he  assisted  his  father,  the  late  Chevalier  James-  de 
Colquhoun,  who  was  Chargi  d'affaires  of  the  Hanseatic 
Republics.  He  displayed  so  much  ability  that  the  Senate 
of  Hamburg  selected  him  as  Plenipotentiary  to  represent 
them  at  Constantinople,  He  was  most  successful  in  his 
negotiations,  and  in  the  year  1842  a  very  satisfactory  Treaty 
of  Commerce  hetweei^  the  Porte  and  the  Hanse  Towns  was 
concluded  and  ratified.  He  also  arranged,  through  the  medium 
of  the  Persian  Miqister  in  Turkey,  a  similar  treaty  with  that 
country;  and  in  1843  he  went  to  Athens  and  was  equally 
successful  in  arranging  a  third  with  Greece.  He  was  appointed 
Aulic  Councillor  to  the  King  of  Saxony  and  standing  Counsel 
to  the  Legation.  He  was  also  standing  Counsel  to  the 
Legation  of  the  Grand  Duke  of  Oldenburg. 

In  athletics  it  is  hoped  he  will  always  be  remembered 
as  one  of  the  founders  of  College  rowing.  On  the  loth  of 
August  1838  the  members  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club 
presented  Sir  Patrick  with  a  cup  bearing  the  following 
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in  pleasing  remembranci  of  his  right  good  fellowship  at  their 
many  merry  meetings.  Later  on  he  kept  the  old  Leander 
Club  going  for  years  as  the  best  rowing  club  on  tKe  Thames. 
'  It  is  difficult  to  say  in  which  of  these  departments  of  human 
'activity  he  will  be  best  remembered,  but  his  personal  qualities 
alone  deserve  that  he  should  be  made  known  to  those  to 
-whom,  otherwise,  he  would  be  only  a  name. 

Sir  Patrick  was  rather  below  the  middle  height ;  his  whitis 
hair  and  refined  face  gave  him  an  interesting  and  venerable 
appearance.  Physically  he  was  a  very  strong  man,  a  worthy 
descendant  of  a  hardy  race.  His  frame,  trained  in  youth  in 
athletic  exercises,  as  many  a  trophy  of  his  skill  and  endurance 
testifies,  seemed  able  to  defy  all  weathers.  It  was  curious 
to  see  the  London  lawyer,  living  in  chambers,  exhibiting 
the  hardiness  of  the  old  Highlanders.  He  never  wore  flannel, 
tier  overcoat,  nor  gloves,  and  his  umbrella,  as  he  persisted 
in  declaring,  had  been  stolen  by  a  bishop*  For  some  years 
he  had  been  lame  apd  leaned  upon  his  stick,  but  this  he 
treated  as  a  subject  for  jocularity.  His  humour  was  abundant 
knd  his  wit  often  suggested  that  of  Voltaire.  One  of  the 
most  noteworthy  features  of  Sir  Patrick  was  the  perennial 
freshness  of  his  mind.  He  retained  to  the  last  the  faculty, 
most  characteristic  of  youth,  but  always  adding  a  grace 
to  old  age,  of  being  easily  pleased.  Cheerfulness  and  a 
most  winning  amiability  among  his  friends,  to  whom  he  was 
heroically  faithful,  were  yet  associated  with  a  wonderful  power 
of  vigorous  declamation  and  pungent  satire  towards  his 
opponents.  His  manner  and  conversation  possessed  the 
charm  of  simplicity  and  homely  allusion,  which  immediately 
placed  younger  and  less  accomplished  men  at  their  ease  with 
him.  If  among  the  vulgar,  who  take  men  at  their  own 
valuation,  this  pleasant  and  easy  freedom  ever  diminished 
the  respect  to  which  his  learning,  abilities,  and  position 
justly  entitled  him,  the  fact  would  not  escape  his  observation, 
for  among  his  many  gifts  must  be  reckoned  a  keen  penetration 
and  power  of  discriminating  character.  Although  Sir  Patrick 
attached  to  himself  an  unusually  wide  circle  of  devoted  friends, 
his  manner  did  not  encourage  any  manifestation  of  affection ; 
but  on  the  occasion,  a  month  before  he  died,  when  it  was 
discovered  that  the  report  of  his  death  in  the  papers  was 
4iot  true,  he  was  deeply  touched  in  finding  how  much  he 


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was  beloved,  and  declared  that  the  novel  experience  of  hearing 
of  his  own  death  was  worth  having,  when  it  served  to  discover 
his  real  friends.  But  as  a  rule  it  was  in  speaking  of  hinit 
rather  than  in  his  presence,  that  any  demonstrative  expressions 
of  the  esteem  in  which  he  waa  held  would  be  used.  His 
^sarcasm  and  occasional  brusqoeness,  though  he  was  osualljr 
a  most  courteous  gentleman,  would  not  appear  inviting  to 
the  mere  acquaintance,  and  made  some  a  little  afraid  of  him ; 
but  those  who  enjoyed  the  privilege  of  intimacy .  knew  w^ 
that  underlying  this  exterior  was  a  warm  heart,  keenly  sensitive 
to  and  appreciative  of  affection,  and  indeed  some  of  the 
kindest  words  and  acts  that  have  ever  lightened  the  burden 
of  life  will  be  remembered  in  connexion  with  Patrick 
Colquhoun. 

But  nothing  could  be  farther  from  the  truth  than  to 
represent  him  as  one  of  those  placid  amiabilities,  whose 
tranquillity  nothing  can  disturb.  He  threw  his  whole  energies 
into  everything  that  he  did,  and  was  vehement  alike  in 
advocating  all  he  cared  for  and  in  denouncing  all  he  despised* 
I  am  afraid  he  had  a  difficulty  in  forgiving ;  <*  Oh  1  I  am  a 
good  hater,"  he  said  on  one  occasion  when  an  old  friend 
remonstrated  with  him  on  some  extravagance  of  expression. 
But  his  faults  make  a  slender  list,  and  arise  out  of  an  original 
and  robust  character  that  must  be  Judged  by  nobler  and 
more  generous  standards  than  the  cheap  moral  common- 
places of  the  "man  in  the  street."  One  of  his  old  school- 
fellows was  regretfully  assuming  that  his  early  college  life 
had  been  forgotten,  when  Lady  Redhouse  told  of  an 
incident  that  occurred  lately,  trifling  in  itself  but  pointing 
to  a  different  conclusion.  On  one  of  Sir  Patrick's  river  trips 
be  observed  some  young  men  looking  at  his  boat  attentively^ 
and  on  his  enquiring  if  there  was  anything  peculiar  attracting 
their  notice,  one  replied  "we  were  looking  at  your  coat  of 
arms,  which  belongs  to  the  giver  of  the  Colquhoun  Sculls," 
and  when  Sir  Patrick  said  that  he  was  that  person,  thejp 
immediately  gave  him  three  hearty  cheers. 

The  activity  of  Sir  Patrick's  intellect  was  very  remarkable^ 
When  he  was  in  the  East  he  acquired  a  mastery  of  modem 
Greek  and  an  acquaintance  with  Turkish.  When  he  proposed 
to  take  up  his  freedom  of  the  City  of  Hamburg,  he  was 
told  it  could  be  given  as  a  compliment,  but  he  claimed  U 


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as  his  riglit,  his  father  having  already  received  the  honour. 
When  some  formalists  suggested  difficulties,  such  as  that  the 
oath  had  to  be  taken  in  Platt-Deiltsch,  he  astonished  them 
by  not  only  rapidly  repeating  the  terms  of  the  declaration, 
but  continued  in  Platt-Deutsch  jestingly  to  upbraid  them  for 
hesitating  to  confer  the  citizenship  on  a  man  who  had  dona 
so  much  for  them. 

His  mechanical  talents  were  equally  conspicuous.  He 
made  a  number  of  curious  bags,  and  indeed  could  do  anything 
with  his  fingers.  On  one  occasion  when  his  tailor  could  not 
or  would  not  understand  the  fashion  he  desired  for  his  trousers^ 
he  cut  out  the  cloth  and  made  them  himself  in  the  style 
he  preferred,  and  his  friends  declared  they  were  a  very  good 
fit.  He  engaged  in  his  favourite  pastime  of  rowing  up  to 
a  late  period  of  life^  and  he  used  to  tell  with  great  laughter 
how  once  a  bargee  on  the  Thames,  struck  apparently  with 
the  odd  spectacle  of  an  old  man  with  a  bald  head  vigorously 
handling  the  sculls,  called  out  to  him,  "I  say,  old  chap, 
isn't  it  about  time  you  were  pole-axed  ?" 
.  Many  old  friends  of  Sir  Patrick  will  recall  with  genuine 
pleasure  those  gatherings  at  his  chambers  in  King's  Bench 
Walk,  soiries  fumantes  et  IHUratres^  as  he  called  them, 
l^istinguished  foreigners,  lawyers,  authors  and  journalists, 
travellers  and  retired  officers,  made  up  as  interesting  an 
assembly  as  can  well  be  conceived.  The  conversation  was 
delightfully  varied  and  never  dull.  When  I  recall  some  of 
those  evenings  of  years  gone  by,  many  old  familiar  faces 
reappear^  and  well-known  voices  seem  to  be  heard  again. 
Here  is  a  French  Count  explaining  his  theory  of  Gothic 
influence  on  his  nation's  history,  there  a  group  discussing 
the  probable  position  of  the  rowers  in  the  triremes,  as  illustrated 
by  a  sculpture  from  Greece.  Here  "  Old  Vaux "  is  telling 
stories  of  the  phenomenal  memory  of  Sergeant  Copley, 
afterwards  Lord  Lyndhurst,  of  his  conduct  of  the  case  of  the 
Salford  Spinners,  when  he  went  down  to  Manchester  and 
not  only  mastered  the  intricacies  of  the  working  but  picked 
up  the  technicalities  and  the  work-people's  slang.  Here 
again  are  Dr  Latham,  Cooper,  the  old  Times  Reporter,  Wm  H. 
Garrett  of  the  Chronicle,  Charles  Leiand  (Hans  Breitmann), 
Sir  Hardinge  Giifard  (now  Lord  Chancellor  Halsbury),  the 
Master  of  St  John's,  and  £.  W.  Brabrook  the  Anthropologist 


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and  Antiqnaiy.  Here  is  Dr  W.  Knighton,  late  Commissioner 
in  Oude,  complimenting  Charles  J.  Stone  on  his  CradU-land 
of  the  Arts  and  Creeds,  and  both  chatting  over  Indian  experiences. 
Here  R.  Needham  Ciist  of  the  Royal  Asiatic  Society,  who  has 
been  everywhere,  is  showing  a  photographic  group  taken  at 
t2  p.m.  in  the  land  of  the  Midnight  Smi.  Sir  James  Redhouse 
is  championing  the  beauties  of  Turkish  Poetry  which  he  has 
skilfully  rendered  into  English,  and  beside  him  is  General  Sir 
Collingwood  Dickson  V.C.  who  went  shooting  50  years  ago  with 
Sir  Patrick,  then  Dr  Colquhoun,  in  the  Crimea,  and  obtained 
that  knowledge  of  the  locality  which  he  turned  to  such  good 
account  in  the  war  fifteen  years  later.  A  few  are  trying  to 
induce  him  to  recount  some  of  his  doings  in  that  memorable 
time,  but  Sir  Collingwood  is  not  to  be  drawn.  They  are 
told  by  Kinglake  however.  It  was  this  good  friend  who 
learnt  Turkish  and  modem  Greek  with  Sir  Patrick,  and  who 
assisted  him  with  the  historical  parts  of  his  great  work. 
These  and  many  others  can  be  recalled,  each  adding 
something  to  the  general  liveliness  of  those  pleasant  evenings ; 
and  above  all  the  genial  host  himself,  ever  ready  to  hear  or 
to  tell  a  good  story. 

[Sir  Patrick  Mac  Chombaich  de  Colquhoun  graduated 
B.A.  in  1837,  M.A.  in  1844,  and  LL.D.  in  1851.  He  was 
also  a  Doctor  utftusque  juris  of  Heidelberg.  In  1886  he  was 
elected  an  Honorary  Fellow  of  the  College.  His  very 
interesting  article  on  the  Sculls,  which  he  had  founded  in 
his  father's  name  in  1835,  will  be  remembered  by  readers  of  the 
of  the  Eagle  for  1 886.  A  portion  of  the  notice  by  his  hand  of 
The  History  of  the  Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club  appeared  in  the 
Cambridge  Review  within  the  week  of  his  death.  In  addition 
to  the  distinctions  cited  by  Mr  Ames  he  possessed  the  following 
decorations:  Niskau  Iftihar  (first  class,  in  brilliants)  of  the 
Ottoman  Empire,  Grand  Cross  of  the  Redeemer  of  Greece, 
Commander  of  the  Order  of  Albertus  Valorosus,  and  Knight 
of  Merit  of  the  Kingdom  of  Saxony,  and  Knight  of  Merit 
of  the  Grand  Duchy  of  Oldenburg.  He  was  the  head  of 
the  clah  or  sept  of  Colquhoun,  having  succeeded  his  cousin 
Sir  Robert  de  Colquhoun,  Bart.,  in  1870.]. 


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The  Rev  Vincent  John  Stanton. 

At  Nice  on  May  16  died  the  Rev  V*  J.  Stanton,  father 
of  Professor  Stanton,  formerly  Chaplain  of  Victoria,  Hong 
Kong,  and  Rector  of  Halesworth,  Suffolk.  Bom  in  1817, 
he  came  to  St  John's  as  the  college  of  Henry  Martyn,  and 
i'as  the  friend  of  Simeon,  Cams,  Scholefield,  and  many  others 
like-minded  as  to  Missionary  work.  .  He  took  his  B;A.  degree 
in  1843,  his  M.A.  in  1850.  In  his  youth  he  went  to  China 
as  a  tutors  and  was  captured  by  the  Chinese  during  the 
"Opium  war,"  and  held  prisoner  for  four  months.  The 
chains  with  which  he  was  bound  have  been  shown  at 
more  than  one  Missionary  Exhibitioti.  In  that  time  the  seeds 
were  sown  of  the  ill-health  to  which  he  ever  afterwards  was 
liable.  After  his  marriage ,  in  1 843  he  went  out  again  to 
China,  and  was  the  means  of  erecting  what  is  now  the 
Cathedral  Church  of  Hong  Kong.  His  interest  in  the 
Missionary  cause  was  ardent  and  life-long,  and  he  was  at 
ail  times  a  generous  benefactor  of  thei  Missionary  Societies; 
On  one  occasion  he  gave  to  the  China  Mission  Consols 
to  the  amount  of  jfSooo,  under  the  signature  df  •EXaxcffrorefwc* 
in  spite  of  much  infirmity  and  depression  his  labours  were 
incessant,  and  their  fmits  abundant. 


The  Rev  Canon  Beadon; 

It  is  diMcult  to  estimate  the  value  to  the  Church  of  thos6 
Characters  whose  distinguish in|f  mark  ihay  be  summed  u{5 
in  the  expression,  the  influence  of  constancy.  This  quality 
eminently  belonged  to  the  late  Hyde  Wyndhani  Beadoti. 
Constancy  in  the  discharge  of  the  sacred  duties  of  the  priest- 
hood, constancy  in  aifection  and  friendship,  constancy  izi 
sound  judgment  and  in  unwearied  effort  to  be  of  ^eMce 
Wherever  his  experienced  and  cl^ar  adviCe  could  be  made 
useful — this  certainly  was  a  Chief  secret  of  his  grealt  power 
for  good  in  his  family,  his  parish,  and  the  diocese  of  which 
he  was  a  member.  As  regards  the  latter  it  probably  may 
be  said  with  trath  that  no  parish  pTiest  within  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  Bishop  df  Gloucester  and  Bristol  exercised  a  wider 
or  more  valued  influence.  No  doubt  he  had  enjoyed  early 
advantages  of  circumstance  and  education.  The  grandson 
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of  Richard  Beadon,  Bishop  first  of  Gloucester  and  then  of 
Bristol,  and  a  cousin  of  Lord  Heytesbury,  he  was  at  Eton 
with  Mr  Gladstone,  Arthur  Hallam,  and  other  brilliant  con- 
temporaries; From  Eton  he  came  to  St  John's,  where  he 
took  his  B.A.  degree  in  1835.  After  ordination  he  served 
curacies  at  Whitchurch  Canonicorum  and  Cheddar,  but  was 
soon  presented  to  the  vicarage  of  Haslebury-Plucknett,  and 
in  1838  to  Latton,  on  the  gift  of  the  Earl  of  St  Germans. 
There  he  remained  for  fifty-three  years.  In  1869  he  succeeded 
Canon  Prower  as  Rural  Dean  of  Cricklade,  and  the  same 
year  he  was  made  an  honorary  Canon  in  Bristol  Cathedral. 
But  It  should  be  added  that  when  as  years  increased  his 
personal  friend  Bishop  Ellicott  again  pressed  preferment 
upon  him,  he,  on  conscientious  grounds,  declined  successively 
the  Archdeaconries  of  Cirencester  and  of  Bristol. 

Canon  Beadon  was  essentially  a  parish  priest.  He  was 
besides  a  man  of  considerable  intellectual  attainment,  and 
took  no  mean  p>art  in  the  great  Church  revival  of  the  last 
fifty  years.  His  rare  combination  of  strong  common  sense 
with  theological  knowledge  and  instinct  made  him  a  valuable 
referee  on  disputed  questions  of  doctrine  or  discipline.  Never, 
perhaps,  was  the  robustness  of  his  judgment  and  the  soundness 
of  his  reasoning  more  conspicuous  than  in  his  evidence 
before  the  famous  Royal  Commission  on  Ritual.  In  his 
religious  principles  he  thoroughly  agreed  with  the  earlier 
leaders  of  the  Oxford  movement,  such  as  the  two  Kebles, 
pr  Pusey,  Isaac  Williams,  and  Charles  Marriott.  Particularly 
may  be  mentioned  the  warm  and  true  affection  between  him 
and  the  late  Bishop  Woodford  of  Ely  and  Canon  Powell 
of  Cirencester,  both  for  many  years  his  neighbours.  Latton 
in  those  days  became  a  bright  centre  of  encouragement  and 
sympathy.  To  some  of  us  the  hours  we  spent  in  that  restful 
retreat  are  amongst  our  most  cherished  recollections.  There 
was  not  only  the  charm  in  our  host  of  quick  sympathy  and 
quiet  humour,  nor  only  his  store  of  what  has  been  happily 
termed  "sanctified  common  sense;"  but  his  was  a  mind 
equally  at  home  in  the  beauties  of  the  natural  world  and 
in  the  deeper  mysteries  of  revealed  truth.  It  was  characteristic 
of  him  to  be  alike  full  of  keen  interest  whether  discussing 
some  question  concerning  the  welfare  of  the  Church,  or 
engaged    in    criticising,    or    editing,    congregational    hymns 


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(alivays  one  of  his  favourite  subjecU),  or  again,  leading  us 
to  appreciate  the  flowers  or  trees  in  the  exquisite  garden 
of  th#  vicarage  which  he  lovingly  tended  with  his  own  hands. 
And  this  almost  ideal  life  of  the  vil)age  pastor  was,  to  those 
who  saw  it,  a  lesson  of  "  contentn^ent  with  godliness,'*  and 
habitual  cheerfulness,  the  light  of  which  can  never  pas9 
from  theiif  memories.  He  died  oi|  May  12,  at  Latton,  near 
Cricklade.    {Guardian^  Msiy  27,  1891.) 


The  Rev  Samuel  Savage  Lewis. 

The  Rev  S,  S.  Lewis,  Fellow  of  Corpus,  died  suddenly  on 
April  I.  He  entered  St  John's  in  1854,  and  was  a  prizeman  ii^ 
the  following  year«  Soon  afterwards  he  had  to  give  up  work  and 
leave  the  University  on  account  of  failing  eye-sight.  He  took  to 
fiarming»  and  spent  some  time  in  Canada,  but  when  his  sight 
improved,  he  re-entered  St  John's  in  1865,  and  presently 
migrated  to  Corpus.  There  he  became  exhibitioner  and  Mawson 
scholar,  and  in  1868  be  was  bracketed  ninth  in  the  first  class 
of  the  Classical  Tripos  with  Mr  Fynes  Clinton,  of  St  John's, 
an4  graduated  the  following  year.  Mr  Lewis  was  elected  to  a 
Fellowship  in  1869,  and  filled  subsequently  the  college  offices 
of  Librarian,  Praelector,  and  Classical  Lecturer.  He  was 
ordained  in  1873.  For  many  years,  says  the  Times,  he  has 
been  well  known  in  the  University  as  an  industrious  and  able 
Untiqnary.  He  was  a  Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries, 
trondon,  and  for  some  time  had  been  honorary  secretary  of 
the  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society,  and  it  is  undoubtedly  due 
to  his  great  energy  that  this  local  society  has,  during  the 
past  few  years,  largely  increased  its  membership  and  extended 
its  operations.  He  was  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  Cam- 
bridge Philological  Society,  and  a  member  of  the  Archaeological 
Societies  of  Paris,  Berlin,  Bonn,  Athens,  Philadelphia,  and  a 
corresponding  member  of  the  Soci6t6  des  Antiquaires  de  France. 
He  had  been  a  constant  contributor  to  the  Transaciions  0/  the 
Society  0/ Antiquaries,  ih^  Journal  of  the  Royal  Society  0/ Literature, 
and  the  Royal  Arche&ological  Institute.  He  took  considerable 
interest  in  the  formation  of  the  Museum  of  Archaeology  at 
Cambridge.  He  contributed  to  the  Eagle  three  article^ 
describing  journeys  in  Greece  and  Asia  Minor  (vols,  xi, 
xii,  xv).  


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Thb  Rbv  William  Jakes  Kennbdt* 

We  regret  to  announce  the  death,  which  occurred  on  June  3, 
of  the  Rev  W.  J.  Kennedy,  M.A.,  Vicar  qf  Bamwood.  He 
ytZ9  subpoenaed  to  attend  the  House  of  Lords  to  give  evidence 
in  the  Berkeley  Peerage  case,  and  caught  a  cold  whilst 
tiraiting  in  the  lobbies,  which  developed  into  z^  fatal  attack  of 
pneumonia. 

Bom  in  the  year  18 14,  he  was  the  youngest  son  of  the  Rev 
Rann  Kennedy,  vicar  of  St  Paul's,  Birmingham,  and  secon4 
master  of  the  Birmingham  Grammar  School.  Proceeding  to 
the  University,  Mr  Kennedy  became  a  Scholar  of  St  John's, 
and  took  his  B.A.  degree  in  the  year  1837,  after  grinning 
the  Porson  Prize  for  Greek  Iambics.  In  1838  he  was  ordained 
fleacon,  and  priest  in  1 840 ;  and  he  became  successively  curate 
pf  St  Martin-in-the-Fields  and  of  the  Parish  Church  of  Ken-^ 
sington.  In  1845  he  niarried  his  cousin.  Miss  Caroline 
Kennedy,  and  was  appointed  Secretaiy  of  the  National  Society 
for  Promoting  the  Education  qf  the  Poor  in  the  Principles 
pf  the  Established  Church. 

In  1848,  at  the  invitation  of  Lord  Lansdowne,  he  undertook 
the  office  of  H.M.  Inspector  of  Schools  in  the  North  Western 
Counties  of  England.  Of  the  wonderful  success  of  his  es^ertions 
there  the  official  acknowledgment  which  he  received  from  the 
Lords  of  the  Committee  of  the  Privy  Council  on  Education 
upon  his  retirement  in  1878,  as  the  following  extract  shows, 
gave  the  strongest  possible  testimony : — ^*  They  desire  to  place 
on  record  their  sense  of  the  valuable  services  which  you  have 
rendered  to  this  department,  and  to  state  that,  while  the  long 
period  of  yqur  official  career  has  been  marked  by  the  most 
Izealous  and  untiring  devotion  to  the  ordinary  duties  of  your 
pffice,  they  have  frequently  called  upon  you  for  confidential 
advice,  upon  which  from  your  great  experience,  sound  judg-> 
ment,  and  loyalty,  they  felt  that  they  could  place  entire 
reliance."  The  preseiit  Lord  Harrowby,  then  head  of  the 
Education  Department,  wrote  personally  to  Mr  Kennedy  in 
equally  kind  and  gratifying  language;  and  the  feelings  of 
those  amongst  whom  he  had  laboured  for  thirty  years  were 
clearly  shown  by  a  widely-signed  testimonial  froni  the  clergy, 
teachers,  and  other  friends  of  elementaty  education  in  hi$ 
district. 


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In  1878  Mr  Kennedy  accepted  the  living  of  Barnwood* 
in  the  gift  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Gloucester,  and  it 
was  ^  Viqar  of  Bamwood,  and  therefore  the  legal  custodian 
of  its  registers,  that  he  was  obliged  to  visit  London  to  give 
evidence  in  the  Berkeley  Peerage  case. 

Politically^  Mr  Kennedy,  like  his  father  before  him,  was 
always  an  earnest  supporter  of  all  Liberal  measures.  He 
di^seQted  strongly,  however,  from  the  Irish  policy  which  was 
adopted  by  Mr  Gladstone  in  1886,  and  he  became  and 
continued  to  the  end  an  earnest  member  of  the  Unionist 
wing  pf  the  Liberal  party.  Mr  Kennedy  was  deeply  convinced 
of  the  importance  of  the  religious  element  in  the  teaching 
of  elementary  schools;  and  be  deprecated  by  every  means 
in  his  power  any  steps  which  could  tend  to  the  exclusion 
of  that  element.  The  paper  on  The  Working  Maris  School^ 
which  he  read  at  the  Manphester  Educational  Congress  in  1869, 
and  which  in  a  pamphlet  form  obtained  a  wide  circulation 
throughout  the  country,  contained  a  veiy  clear  and  earnest 
exposition  of  his  views  upon  this  important  subject, 


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THE  FRESHMAN  AND  THE  LOGIC-PAPER. 

Like  Horace  and  the  Matine  Bee 

I  culled  my  Logic  heedfuUy; 

But  to  my  Terror  and  AflEright 

Z  found  in  nought  I  reasoned  right. 

Before,  methought,  I  had  some  Sense, 

But  Logic  made  me  dazed  and  dense. 

My  Dreams,  or  Nightmares  let  me  say, 

The  Causa  causans  of  this  Lay 

(Rather  plurality  of  Cause^ 

Viz :  Madness  plus  the  Logic-Laws), 

Do  still  perplex  my  waking  MoodSy 

And  turn  to  Ills  my  former  Goods. 

For  Barbara^  once  to  me  so  fair. 

For  Barbara  now  no  more  I  care: 

Her  Figures  neat,  but  in  her  Face 

Barbarity  replaces  Grace. 

I  care  not  now  for  any  Miss, 

Sweet  Love  is  slain  by  Disamis^ 

Fresison  casts  a  frost  on  all, 

Camenes  is  unmusical, 

Cesare's  golden  tresses  pale, 

Baroko  is  baroque  and  stale, 

Camestres  graces  Cam  no  more, 

Dat-Isi  shuns  the  Isis*  Shore, 

Festino  dawdles,  Ferio     - 

No  longer  strikes  my  Fancy:  so 

Elenchi  Ignoratio 

Beclouds  my  Wits  by  Contraries^ 

And  founders  me  with  Fallacies. 


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Ifim' sequiiur^  Tautology^ 
DiUmmOy  Amphibology^ 
The  Argument  ad  Hominem^ 
Sorites^  and  the  Enthymem^ 
Petitio  Pftncipiiy 
Th'  Illicit  Process  of  the  Mi- 
nor, ^X  Z,  .and  Z  Y  X 
Wise  Heads  (and  ex- Wise  Heads)  do  vex, 
A  E  I  O !    O  I  E  A ! 
I  groan  by  Night,  I  sigh  by  Day. 
O  Shades  bf  Whately,  Thomson,  Mill, 
Your  System  ground,  it  grinds  me  still. 
Your  EleiHents  I've  dearly  bought, 
Your  Laws  of  Thought,  by  Loss  of  Thought. 

H.  S. 


EPIGRAMMA  GR^CUM 

NUMISMATE  ANNUO  DIGNATUM  A.D.  MDCCCXCI 

AucTORE  T.   R.   GLOVER 

COLL.   DIV.  JOB.  SCHOL. 
To  <riya»  TroWdxif  i<rrl  <ro(f>tiraro»  dvBptiirt^  po^trai, 

TjideoL  Kovptf^  Staaol  Iptora  fiia^' 
&v  o  fikv  avTOfievo^  fia\a  troWi,  xal  oixTp*  iKerevfov 

ai/jiv\ioi<T$  \6yoi^  ^vvaev  ovSev  ofifov 
arepo^  ai  vUcfja^ — 17  S'  ovic  rivaivero  tcovprj — 

X€Lpo^  ifpawTOfievo^  teal  arofia  alya    (l>tX&v, 


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Easter  Tlrm,  iBgi, 

Mr  Henij  Melvill  Gwatkin,  our  highly  distinguished  and 
greatly  esteemed  Senior  Lecturer  in  Theology,  was  on  June  1 1 
appointed  to  iht  Diifie  Professorship  of  Ecclesiastical  History  in 
the  University,  in  succession  to  Bishop  Creighton.  He  took 
his  B.A.  degree  as  bracketed  thirty-fifth  Wrangler  in  1867 
(Niven's  year),  and  was  also  bracketed  ninth  Classic  in  Dr 
Sandys*  year,  bracketed  third  in  the  Moral  Sciences  Tripos,  and 
alone  in  the  first  class  of  the  Theological  Examination  (the 
forerunner  of  the  Theological  Tripos)  in  1868,  winning  the 
Hebrew  and  Scholefield  Prizes  and  the  mark  of  distinction 
in  Hebrew,  as  well  as  the  Tyrwhitt  and  Crosse  University 
Scholarships,  and  the  two  Canis  Pri^s.  He  was  elected  a 
Fellow  of  the  College,  and  held  the  Fellowship  till  his  marriage 
in  1874.  In  the  same  year  he  was  appcflnted  College  Lecturer 
in  Theology,  and  in  this  post  he  has  been  one  of  the  ablest  and 
most  successful  teachers  on  our  staff.  As  the  author  of  Tke 
Arian  Reaction^  and  of  The  Arian  Coniroversy  in  the  Epochs  of 
Church  Hisioty  series  edited  by  Dr  Creighton,  and  of  various 
memoirs  and  papers  dealing  with  historical  subjects,  he  has 
acquired  a  high  reputation  in  his  special  subject ;  but  it  may 
be  less  generally  known  that  be  is  also  a  keen  naturalist,  and 
that  his  researches  on  the  structure  of  Mollusca  have  won  him 
recognition  by  the  scientific  societies.  As  Dixie  Professor  he 
becomes  a  Fellow  of  Emmanuel,  a  College  we  have  already 
enriched  by  lending  it  the  services  of  Professor  Greenhill 
and  Mr  Webb.  That  to  this  extent  we  shall  lose  the  benefit  of 
Professor  Gwatkin's  residence  amongst  us  is  the  only  drawback 
to  our  complete  gratification  at  his  well-earned  promotion. 

Mr  R.  Ellis  dedicates  his  Nodes  Maniltanae,  swe  Disser/a/umes 
in  Astronomica  Manilii  (Clarendon  Press)  to  Professor  Sylvester. 
The  inscription  is  as  follows : 

lOANNI  lOSEPHO  SYLVESTRO 

If  ATHRMATJCO  £T  PORTAE  SGREGIO 

CANTABRI6IBNSI  AMERICANO  OXONIENSX 

HAEC  STYDIA  IN  MANILIVM 

A  COGNOMINE  SYLVESTRO  PONTIFICS  &OMANO 

ANTE  DCCCC  ANNOS 

EX  TENEBRIS  REVOCATVM  AC  RESCRIPTVM 

DEDICO  CONSECROQVE 


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Lord  Windsor,  who  has  been  for  some  years  Major  of 
the  Queen's  Own  Worcestershire  Hussars,  has  been  appointed 
Honorary  Colonel  of  the  2nd  Volunteer  Battalion  of  the 
Worcestershire  Regiment. 

By  permlssioh  of  the  College  a  Brass  has  been  placed  ill 
the  College  Chapel,  on  the  wall  to  the  left  of  the  Screeni 
in  memory  of  Dr  Churchill  Babington,  by  his  widow.  The 
inscription  is  as  follows : — 

Mi  S.— V.  a.  CHukcHiLL  BAbtngton  s.  t.  p.  Hujns  Collegii  xxi 
annis  Sodas  moz  per  xxii  annos  Parochiae  de  Cockfield  in  comltattt 
Suffolcensi  Rector.  In  hac  Academia  Rerum  Antiquanim  studio  per  xy 
annos  Professor  incnbuit.  Inter  multifaiiae  doctrinae  documenta  plutima 
Orationes  Hyptridis  quattuor  ex  antiquissimls  depromptas  papjris  in  lucem 
primus  ediifit  aTium  plantarumqne  naturas  scriptis  illustravit  £cclesia6 
Anglicanae  jam  ab  adOlescentia  Defensor  exslitit.  Socii  titulo  iterunl 
omatus  est  anno  M  DCCCLX^X;  Natus  apud  Roediffe  in  comitatu  Ldcestrensi 
XI®  die  Mart  mdcccxxi  decessit   apud  Codcfidd  xii*'  die  Januar  anna 

MDCCC  LXXXIX. 

Homini  Bono  in  Conspecto  Sno  dedit  D£US  Sapientiam  et  Sdentianl 
et  Laetitiam. 

In  the  revised  Commettioratioti  Service  to  be  used  in  the 
tJniversity  Church,  the  names  of  the  following  members  of  the 
College  are  introduced  among  those  of  the  Benefactors  i 
•*  Benjamin  Hall  Kennedy,  Doctor  in  Divinity,  formerly  Regius 
Professor  of  Greek,  sometime  Fellow  of  St  John's  College," 
•'Edward  Grey  Hancock,  sometime  Fellow  of  St  John's  College.'* 
'•George  Robert  Crotch,  of  St  John's  College,  who  gave  a 
collection  of  Insects."  It  is  also  said  that  •*  the  Mineralogical 
Museum  is  specially  indebted  to  the  gifts  of  Charles  Brooke^ 
of  St  John*8  College." 

The  Council  have  communicated  the  followiiig'  resolution 
to  Lady  Colquhoun. 

*<  That  the  sincere  sympathy  of  the  College  be  offered  to  Lady  Colonhonn 
on  the  occasion  of  the  bereavement  she  has  lately  sustained  in  the  loss  of 
h'er  husband,  who  was  so  bright  an  ornament  to  his  College,  and  so  welcome' 
in  the  Society  which  now  demotes  hia  loss." 

On  the  same  day  the  following  Was  ordered  to  be  transmitted 
to  the  young  Earl  of  Powis  and  to  the  Dean  of  Hereford/ 

('  That  the  Council  desire  to  express  the  regret  wkh  which  they  have  learned 
of  the  death  of  the  Rt  Hon  the  Earl  of  Powis,  whose  high  personal  qualities 
and  eialted  office  in  the  University  tonferred  distinction  upon  the  College/ 
of  which  he  was  a  loyal  alumnus  and  a  generous  benefactor.-' 

At  the  annual  election  to  the  College  Council^  held  oil 
June  6,  Dr  Sandys,  Mr  W.  F.  Smithy  and  Mr  Larmor  were 
re-elected  to  serve  for  four  years. 

The  Examination  of  Candidates  for  Fellowships  will  take 
place  on  Saturday,  October  17,  and  the  Election  on  Monday, 
November  2.    It  is  understood  that  there  are  three  vacancies^ 
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Mr  Caldecott,  Junior  Dean,  has  beeti  nominated  as  Proctor 
for  the  ensuing  academical  year. 

Mr  Haskins  has  been  nominated  ^  an  Examiner  for  the 
Classical  Tripos  in  1892. 

Td  W,  Morris,  who  was  14th  in  the  Open  Competition  for 
the  Indian  Civil  Service  in  June  1890,  has  distinguished  himself 
by  obtaining  the  3rd  place  in  the  First  Periodical  Examination, 
being  2nd  in  the  History  and  Geography  of  India,  3rd  in 
Hindustani,  and  jst  (with  a  prize  of  /  10)  in  Hindi. 

Ds  E.  E.  Sikes,  Scholar  of  the  College,  has  received  a  grant 
from  the  Craven  Fund. 

E.  W.  MacBride,  Scholar  of  the  College,  and  Secretary  of 
the  Editorial  Committee  of  the  Eagle,  has  been  nominated  to  the 
use  of  the  University's  table  in  the  Zoological  Station  at  Naples 
for  six  months  from  October  x,  1891. 

We  have  to  congratulate  T.  R.  Glover,  Scholar  of  the 
College,  on  his  winning  the  Porson  Prize,  and  Sir  William 
Browne's  Medal  for  the  Greek  Epigram ;  and  R.  Sheepshanks, 
also  Scholar,  on  his  winning  the  first  Bell  Scholarship. 

Ds  P.  H.  Brown,  third  in  the  Law  Tripos  1889,  and  second 
class  in  the  Historical  Tripos  1890,  Scholar  of  the  College, 
has  been  elected  to  the  first  Whewell  Scholarship  for  Inter- 
national Law.  The  Scholarship  is  of  the  value  of  x  100  a  year 
for  four  years.  The  second  Scholar  (Figgis  of  St  Catharine's) 
was  Senior  in  the  History  Tripos  of  1889. 

Mr  J.  E.  Marr,  Fellow  and  Geological  Lecturer  of  the 
College,  and  Secretary  of  the  Geological  Society,  has  been 
elected  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society.  We  heartily  congratulate 
him  and  the  College  on  this  well-earned  honour. 

Mr  W.  M.  Hicks,  F.R.S.,  formerly  Fellow,  and  now  Principal 
of  Firth  College,  SheflBeld,  has  been  approved  for  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Science ;  and  Mr  T.  G.  Tucker,  formerly  Fellow,  and 
now  Professor  of  Classics  at  Melbourne,  for  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Letters. 

A  statue  of  Bishop  Fisher  is,  by  the  liberality  of  Mr  S. 
Sandars,  to  be  placed  in  one  of  the  niches  over  the  entrance 
to  the  Divinity  School. 

The  Ven  Archdeacon  Wilson,  formerly  Fellow  and  Editor 
of  the  EagUy  was  on  his  leaving  Clifton  College  presented  with 
a  handsome  silver  candelabra,  together  with  a  touching 
address  from  the  Masters  and  the  boys. 

F.  X.  D'Souza,  the  Senior  in  the  Law  Tripos  of  this  year, 
hAS  gained  an  Inns  of  Court  Scholarship  of  One  Hundred 
Guineas  for  two  years,  in  Jurisprudence  and  Roman  Law. 


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Mr  F.  W.  Burton  M.B.,  who  is  in  fature  to  be  known  as 
Burton- Fanning,  has  been  appointed  Physician  to  the  Norfolk 
and  Norwich  Hospital,  and  also  to  the  Jenny  Lind  Children's 
Hospital,  Norwich. 

The  Rev  J.  J.  Beauchamp  Palmer  (B.A.  1888),  Naden 
Divinity  Student  of  the  College,  has  been  accepted  for  service 
in  India  by  the  Church  Missionary  Society. 

A.  C.  Millard  (B.A.  1888)  again  this  year  coached  the 
Sydney  University  Crew  which  has  won  the  Inter-University 
race  in  Australia. 

The  fifteenth  annual  Bicycle  Contest  between  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  took  place  at  Cambridge  on  May  30.  Cambridge 
won  all  three  events.  In  the  Ten  Miles  Race  B.  W.  Atlee,  of 
$t  John's,  came  in  first  by  two  yards  in  30  min.  23  sec. 

The  following  have  been  duly  elected  members  of  our 
Editorial  Committee  for  the  ensuing  Term:  W.  McDougall^ 
and  L.  Horton-Smith. 

At  the  election  on  June  9  two  members  of  the  College, 
G.  H.  R.  Garcia  and  T.  R.  Glover,  were  elected  to  thei 
Committee  of  the  Union  Society  for  the  Michaelmas  term. 
Mr  G.  C.  M.  Smith  has  this  term  been  a  member  of  the 
Library  Committe, 

Among  the  guests  present  at  the  Commemoration  Dinner 
on  May  6  were  the  Mayor  (Mr  F.  C.  Wace),  the  Rt  Hon. 
H.  C.  Raikes  M.P.,  Postmaster  General,  Sir  Thomas  Wade>. 
G.C.M.G.,  the  Venerable  Archdeacon  Gifibrd,  the  Regius. 
Professor  of  Divinity  (Dr  Swete),  and  the  Senior  and  Junior 
Proctors.  The  Commemoration  Sermon,  which  we  print  else-^ 
where,  was  preached  by  Professor  J.  E.  B.  Mayor. 

Mr  Joseph  Jacobs,  formerly  Scholar  of  the  College,  haa 
been  appointed  Chairman  of  the  Literary  Comjmittee  of  the 
International  Folk-lore  Congress  to  be  held  in  London  thi» 
year. 

The  Worshipful  L.  T.  Dibdin  M.A.,  of  St  John's,  Chancellor 
of  the  Dioceses  of  Durham,  Exeter,^  and  Rochester,  has  this 
term  delivered  a  series  of  lectures  on  Parochial  Law  under 
the  sanction  of  the  Special  Board  of  Law,  in  the  Hall  of 
Ridley.  The  lectures  have  been  attended  by  a  large  and 
interested  audience. 

A  Proctor  Memorial  Observatory  to  commemorate  the  late 
Richard  A.  Proctor  (B.A.  i860)  is  about  to  be  established 
near  to  the  town  of  San  Diego«  in  the  southern  part  of 
California.  A  plot  of  ground  of  about  ten  acres  has  been 
given  for  its  site,  and  sufficient  money  has  already  been 
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refractor  from  Messrs  Alvan  Clark  and  Son,  the  well-known 
American  telescope  makers.  The  observatory  will  be  essentially 
a  teaching  one,  open  to  the  public  every  night  from  dark  till 
ten.  The  site  which  has  been  selected  is  situated  on  the  edge 
Qf  the  caoon  of  the  San  Pi^go  river,  about  500ft  above  the 
sea  level  and  ten  miles  from  the  Pacific  Ocean.  It  is  just 
high  enough  to  be  above  the  level  of  the  $ea  fog  which 
frequently  rolls  up  the  valleys  from  the  Pacific,  and  cuts  off 
the  radiation  from  the  heated  ground  around.  The  observatory 
will  be  easy  of  access  from  San  Diego,  as  it  is  near  to  the 
end  of  a  cable  line  which  leads  up  frqm  the  city,  Mr  Proctor's 
widow  is  now  in  England* 

Mr  Newboldy  Fellow  of  the  College,  has  given  a  donation 
of  /^  1 00  for  the  purpose  of  reducing  the  outstanding  debt  on 
the  College  Chapel,  and  tbe  President  a  donation  of  £^0  for 
the  same  purpose.  Owing  to  these  apd  other  generous  gifts 
and  to  certain  financial  re-arrangements  carried  Qut  by  the 
Senior  Bursar,  it  is  probable  that  the  Chapel  will  be  free  of 
4ebt  in  1897. 

Mr  J.  Teasdale  (B,A.  1872)  has  been  rerappointed  by  th^ 
College  a  Governor  of  Pocklington  School. 

Mr  S.  A.  Strong,  formerly  Hutchinson  Student,  now  of  the 
British  Museuni,  proposes  with  the  consent  of  the  Council 
to  give  iii  the  Collegej  during  the  October  Term,  a  course 
of  Lectures  in  As^yriology.  The  course  h^  been  recognised 
by  the  Board  of  Oriental  Studies. 

.  The  Exhibitions  offered  by  the  College  to  the  most 
successful  candidates  in  the  Senior  Local  Examinations  h^ve 
been  gained  by  W.  Gaskell,  of  Loughborough  Grammar  School, 
for  Classics,  and  A,  P,  McNeile,  of  Trent  College,  for 
Mathematics. 

Residence  for  the  Long  Vacation  will  begin  on  July  4, 
imd  end  on  August  24. 

The  Eagle  Editorial  album  has  been  enriched  by  the 
addition  of  portraits  of  the  following  past  Editors :  Professor 
W.  H.  H.  Hudson  (King's  College,  London).  St  j,  B.  Wynne- 
Willson,  A.  A.  Bourne  (Cheltenham),  and  J.  P.  M.  Blackett. 
The  Editors  beg  leave  to  return  thanks  for  these  (Tifts,  wd 
are  ready  to  welcome  others. 

The  subjects  for  the  Essay  Prizes  are  as  follow ; 
First  year:   Pryden  as  a  political  writer. 

Second  year :    The  historical  connexion  between  Church  and  State. 
Third  year:   The  social  and  economic  changes  that  would  be  likdy  ta 
iresvit  from  a  general  reduction  of  the  hours  of  labour  in  £ngland. 

The  Essays  are  to  be  sent  to  the  Master  by  Monday. 
October  u. 


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.  Professor  Hughes  sends  us  the  following  note,  which  we 
commend  to  the  friends  and  admirers  of  the  late  Professor 
Kennedy : — 

"Soon  after  Dr  Kennedy's  death,  Professor  Mayor  invited 
subscriptions  for  the  purchase  of  a  bust  for  which  Dr  Kennedy 
had  sat  to  Mr  Henry  Wiles  a  few  months  before.  It  was 
intended  to  present  the  bust  to  the  University.  The  sum 
required  was  /^i5o.  There  was  no  formal  appeal  for  subscrip- 
tion and  no  Committee  formed.  The  sum  of  £^%  ts  td  has 
been  received  or  promised.  The  bust  is  considered  by  those 
who  have  seen  it  to  be  a  remarkably  good  portrait,  a  pleasing 
likeness,  and  a  valuable  work  of  art.  Professor  Jebb  has 
'  written  the  following  Greek  lines  which  it  is  proposed  to  inscribe 
on  the  pedestal. 

iL0vpo9  idy,  Kdfiov  irAp  tovoKtvin  xkiov* 
%U  i'  &ifipa9  TtXiovrA  o^  idppoot  aUc  l^afipimi 

fiaWov  dft  <ro(^la9  dvBta  ipwroutvov^ 
yripa\iov  dk  v&Xiv  Bpi'mipA  a*  Ui^aro  Fp^yn}, 

VTi/AfAa  KaXd¥  iroXidv  Ociv^  9oi  Afi^pl  kS/ui*, 

I  write  to  you  in  the  hope  that  you  may  be  able  to  bring 
this  letter  under  the  notice  of  any  friends  of  the  late  Regius 
Professor  of  Greek  whom  you  may  think  likely  to  further  the 
object  in  view."  Subscriptions  may  be  sent  to  Professor  Hughes^ 
4  Cintra  Terrace,  Cambridge,  who  is  the  Honorary  Treasurer. 

Dr  Garrett  has  given  this  month  two  highly  successful  organ 
recitals  in  the  College  Chapel  after  Sunday  evening  service. 
The  following  were  the  pieces  performed : 

Sunday  yund  7. 

1  Concerto  in  G  major  (No.  4) Handel 

'  A  Tempo  Giusto 

Allegro  Maestoso 

Adagio 

Fugata 
^  Allegretto 

2  Aria  (with  variations  and  Finale)   KohUr 

3  Toccata  and  Fuous  (Dorian  mode)    y,S.  Bach 

Sunday  June  14. 

I    Sonata  (No  4)    ., MtndtUsohn 

I  Allegro 
Adagio  religioso 
Andante  con  Moto 
Allegro  Maestoso 

%    ADAGioinE Fr,  Bendel 

3  Aria  (Schumann)  with  variations   Chipp 

4  Prelude  and  Fugue  (arranged)  .•••••..••••  Reicha 


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Parish. 
St  Maiy,  Bishophill,  Yotk 
All  Souls',  Maiylebone 
St  James',  Barrow 
Chapel  H^oyal,  Brighton 
Combe-in-Teignhead 
Ch.  Ch.,  Ince-in-Makerfidd 
All  Saints',  Prince's  Park 
Skipton  in  Craven. 


The  following  members  of  the  College  were  ordained  on 
Trinity  Sunday : 

Name.  Diocest, 

Davys,  G.  P.,  B.A.  York 

Ridsdale,  A.  H.  W.,  B.A.  London 
Thompson.  H.,  B.A.  Carlisle 

Gatty,  P.  E.,  B.A.  Chichester 

Pound,  R.  W.  G.,  B.A.      Exeter 
Kruger,  H.  R.,  B.A.  Liverpool 

Webster,  W.,  B.A.  Liverpool 

Collier,  W.,  B.A.  Ripon 

Di  Davys  and  Kriiger  resided  at  Ridley  Hall  after  taking 
their  degrees. 

The  following  ecclesiastical  appointments  of  members  of 
the  College  are  announced. 

Name,                  B.A.                  from  to 

Audcn,  T.,  M.A.             (1858)  V.     of     St     Julian,  Secretary    to    Salop 

Shrewsbury  ArchidiaconalBoard 
of  Educattion 

(1869)  C.  in  Charge  of  Ayle-  V.     of   All    Saints', 
stone,  Peterborough  Leicester 

(1876)  V.  of  Carew,  Durham  V.     of    Uanfihangel 

Helygen,  Radnor- 
shire 

(1887)  C.     of     Harrington,  V.    of    All    Saints', 

Peterborough  Cadney,  Lines. 

(1870)  V.     of    Barkingside,  V.ofSt  Peter's,  New- 
St  Albans  lyn,  Cornwall 

(1869)  R.otHertingfordbury,  Hon    Canon    of    St 

St  Albans  Albans  Cathedral 

(1857)  R.    of    St    Thomas,  Hon  Canon  of  Man- 

Ardwick,  Manch.  Chester  Cathedral 

Wharam,  G.  D.,  M.A.   (1878)  V.  of  Buslingthorpe,  V.  of  RoUeston-with.- 

Ripon  Morton,  Notts. 
McCormick,  Canon  J., 

D.D.                             (1857)  V.  of  Holy  Trinity,  Chaplain  to  the  Arch- 

HuU  bishop  of  York 

Pryke,  W.  E.,  M.A.       (1865)  Head  Master  of  R.Gt.  Chaplain  to  the  late 

Sch.,  Lancaster  High     Sheriff    of 
Lancashire 

Fenn,  A.  C,  M.A.          (1858)  R.  of  Tiptree  Heath,  R.  of  Wrabness,£ssez 

St  Albans 

Causton,  E.  A.,  M.A.     (1862)  C.ofWootton,Canter.  R.ofSonthShoebuiy, 

bury  Essex 

(1878)  V.inC.ofStMark,N.  V.     of     St     Paul's, 

Audley,  London  Brentford 

(1866)  V.  of  Ch.  C.  Mayfair,  Sec.  of  London  Dio- 

London  cesanHomsMission 

(1884)  C.    of  St    Nicholas,  V.  of  Netherwitton, 

Liverpool  Morpeth 

(1869)  H.M.S.  Impregnable  Chaplain  and  Naval 

Instructor  to  the 
Camperdown 


Howlett,  H.,  M.A. 
Morgan,  J.  P.,  M.A. 

Peacock,  E.  A.  W. 
Perkins,  T.  N.,  M.A. 
Bumside,  F.,  M.A. 
Nunn,  J.,  M.A. 


Nixon,  H.  F.,  M.A. 
Rowsell,  H.,  M.A. 
Bell,  C.  E.  B.,  M.A. 
Oxland,  W.,  B.A. 


Routh,  W.,  M.A. 


(1869)  Head  Master  Bedale    Private    Chaplain    to 
Gr.  Sch.  Sir  F.  A.  MUbank, 

Bart 
Valentine,  G.  T.,  B.A.   (1857)  V.    of  Holme-Eden,    V.  of  Stansted  Mont- 
Carlisle  fitchet,  Essex. 


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A  portrait  of  the  Rev  Marcus  Rainsford,  M.A.  (B.A.  x88o)» 
senior  Curate  of  St  Matthew's,  Brixton,  with  a  notice  of  his  life 
and  work,  appears  in  The  News  of  June  5. 

The  preachers  in  the  College  Chapel  this  term  have 
been — Mr  Newton  Mant  (Chesterton),  Professor  Mayor 
(Commemoration),  Dr  Merriman,  and  Mr  Watson. 

The  Rectory  of  Moreton,  Essex,  is  vacant  by  the  death 
of  the  Rev  Arthur  Calvert  (B.A.  1853),  formerly  Fellow,  who 
was  presented  to  the  living  in  1877. 

The  College  living  of  Barrow,  near  Bury  St  Edmunds,  has 
become  vacant  by  the  death  of  the  Reverend  W.  Keeling,  B.D. 
The  advowson  of  Barrow,  which  is  of  considerable  value,  was 
bequeathed  to  the  College  by  John  Boughton  B.D.,  Senior 
Fellow,  who  died  in  1693  and  was  buried  in  the  College 
Chapel.  In  appointing  to  the  living  the  College  was  to 
give  preference  (i)  to  his  nephew,  Christopher  Boughton, 
(2)  to  his  name  and  kindred,  (3)  to  the  Senior  Divine  in 
College.  A  curious  contest  arose  once  about  the  interpretation 
of  the  last  qualification.  It  was  a  question  between  the  Senior 
Fellow  who  was  only  a  B.D.,  a  Junior  Fellow  who  was  D.D. 
&nd  another  Fellow  who  was  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity  and 
therefore  head  of  the  Faculty.  There  was  a  lawsuit,  and  the 
original  appointment  of  the  D.D.  was  quashed  in  favour  of 
the  Regius  Professor  John  Green  B.D. 

The  late  Mr  Keeling  had  been  rector  since  1845.  He  was 
^  Wrangler  and  a  second-class  Classic  in  1826,  and  served 
several  offices  in  College,  including  that  of  Dean,  between 
taking  his  degree  and  being  presented  to  Barrow.  Mr  Keeling 
was  the  author  of  a  work  entitled  Liiurgiae  Britannicat. 

Mr  R.  R.  Webb  has  been  appointed  a  University  Governor 
of  Monmouth  Grammar  School;  Mr  J.  T.  Ward  a  member  of 
the  Non-collegiate  Students  Board ;  Dr  A.  Macalister  a  member 
of  the  Antiquarian  Committee ;  Mr  Marr,  Mr  T.  Roberts,  and 
Mr  Harker  members  of  the  Geological  Museum  Syndicate ;  Mr 
Ayles  an  Examiner  for  the  Theological  Special;  Mr  H.  S. 
Foxwell  an  Adjudicator  of  the  Cobden  Prize;  Mr  Acton  an 
Examiner  in  Elementary  Chemistry. 

The  following  books  by  members  of  the  College  are 
announced: — Old  Truths  in  Modem  Lights:  Boyle  Lectures  for 
1890  (Percival  and  Co.),  by  Rev  Dr  T.  G.  Bonney;  Life  of 
Sir  Thomas  More  (Burns  and  Gates),  by  Rev  T.  E.  Bridgett ; 
Philomythus,  an  Antidote  against  Credulity,  and  Newmanianism^ 
a  preface  to  the  second  edition  of  Philomythus  (Macmillan), 
by  Rev  Dr  E.  A.  Abbott;  Clifton  College  Sermons  1888— 1890 
(Macmillan),  by  Ven  J.  M.  Wilson ;  Principles  of  Economics 
vol.  i,  second  edition  (Macmillan),  by  Prof  A.  Marshall ;  The 
Elements  of  Trigonometry  (Macmillan),  by  Rawdon  Levett  and 


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revised  (Macmiilan),  by  R.  W.  Hogg ;  Essays  and  Reviews  from 
the  * AtheTUBum*  (Nutt),  by  Joseph  Jacobs;  The  Teaching  of 
Christ  (Macmiilan),  by  the  Rt  Rev  Dr  Moorhouse ;  A  Dictionary 
of  Classical  Antiquities,  Mythology,  Religion,  Literature  and 
Art,  from  the  German  of  Dr  Oskar  Seyffert  (Swan  Sonnenscheio), 
by  Professor  Nettleship  and  Dr  Sandys ;  Qiuim  Dilecta  (Hodder), 
by  Rev  W,  A.  Whitworth ;  Vergili  Bucolica  (Macnullan}^  by 
OLE.  Page* 

Commemoration  SbrMok. 

For  verily  I  say  unto  you,  that  mofiy  prophets  and  rifhteous  nun  desired 
to  see  the  things  which  ye  see,  and  saw  them  not ;  ana  to  hear  the  things 
which  ye  hear,  and  heard  them  not. — MATT,  ziii  17. 

Here,  as  elsewhere  in  tbe  Gospels,  we  are  plainly  told  that  the  revdatkm 
to  Israel  was  bnt  as  twilight,  that  patriarchs  and  prophets  are  neither  in  life 
or  doctrine  an  absolute  standard  for  the  Christian  Church.  Moses  for  your 
hardness  of  heart  suffered  you  to  put  away  your  wives. — ^Matt.  zix  8.  Ye 
know  not  what  manner  of  spirit  ye  are  of—^XiYiX.  iz  55. 

Nor  would  Abraham,  Moses  and  Da^d  alone,  have  rejoiced  to  se^ 
the  day  of  Christ.  Read  such  commentaries  as  those  of  Grotios,  John  Price 
and  Wetstein  on  the  New  Testament,  or  of  our  Johnian  Thomas  Gataker 
on  the  Meditations  of  Marcus  Aurelius,  or  the  Mchoe^  and  Seminal  Wordf 
in  which  modem  divines  have  collected  the  yearnings  and  strivings  of  the 
better  heathen  towards  a  Sun  of  Righteousness,  and  you  will  co^ess  that 
Justin  Martyr  and  the  Alexandrian  church  were  justified  in  regarding 
.  Socrates  and  Plato,  Musonius  and  Epictetus,  as  heralds  of  the  Gospel  dawn» 
of  that  Ught  which  arose  to  lighten  the  Gentiles,  if  it  was  the  special  ^ory 
of  His  people  Israel,  The  God  who  mctde  the  world,  made  of  one  every 
nation  of  men,  thai  they  should  seek  Ood,  if  haply  they  might  feel  after 
Him  and  find  Him,  The  Hortensius  of  Cicero  was  a  main  instrument  in 
Augustine  s  conversion.  God^s  ways  are  not  as  our  ways.  The  spiritual 
needs  of  our  race  are  one  and  indivisible.  St  Paul  bore  the  reproach  of  the 
Cross  at  Athens  and  Rome,  at  Corinth  and  Ephesus.  Grreek  philosophy  may 
even  yet  have  a  work  to  do  in  lifting  the  church  and  the  world  m>m  the 
death  of  materialism  to  a  nobler  life,  to  sweeter  manners  and  purer  laws. 

Plato  reverently  but  firmly  ejects  Homer  and  his  fi:ail,  passionate  gods 
from  the  ideal  state  ;  and  from  the  days  of  Xenophanes  onwards  the  crimes 
and  vices  of  Olympus  were  an  o£fence  to  thoughtful  heathen  and  a  temptaticm 
to  the  weak.  The  imitation  of  Jupiter  would  degrade  human  nature  below 
the  level  of  the  brute;  the  imitation  of  Christ  transfigures  earth  into  a 
forecourt  of  heaven. 

But  not  only  would  the  ancient  world  have  envied  the  privileges  of  such  a 
society  as  ours ;  at  this  hour  foreigners,  even  from  the  most  civilised  states, 
admire  our  polity,  consecrated  not  only  by  memories  of  noble  endeavour 
and  repeated  martyrdom  among  the  sons  of  the  house,  but  also  by  the  veiy 
auspices  of  our  birth,  bv  the  saintly  example  and  earnest  entreaty  of  the 
Foundress  and  of  our  legislator  Bishop  Fisher.  Lady  Margaret  prayed 
(Statutes,  c.  19,  1530)  that  her  fellows  and  scholars  mieht  keep  three  ends 
in  view — the  worship  of  God,  innocency  of  life,  and  the  establishment 
of  Christian  faith.  A  college  may  be,  and  is  in  design,  a  family,  meeting 
around  the  family  altar,  to  begin  and  end  the  day  with  prayer  and  praise. 

•  R.  Schneiders  Ckrisiliche  KULngt  aus  dett  gruekiicken  und  rfimitcMen  Kla»-» 
tikem.    Gotha.    1865.    8vo. 

t  Edm.  Spieras  Logos  S^rmat»€&».  ParalUlstelUn  Mum  Neuen  Testamemt  out 
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After  the  fusion  of  East  and  West  under  Alexander.  Stoicism,  rising 
libove  narrow  antipathies  of  sect  and  race,  of  birth  and  fortune,  conceived 
the  intellectual  world  as  one  state,  animated  by  one  spirit,  ruled  by  one  law, 
where  men  are  fellow-citizens  with  gods.  How  easy  should  it  be  for  us  here 
to  widen  onr  hearts  to  these  catholic  hopes !  Our  studies,  as  symbolised  on 
the  steps  of  the  holy  table,  embrace  all  nature  and  all  history,  Greek  wisdom, 
lloman  order,  and  the  divine  oracles  of  Israel.  Among  those  whom  we 
honour  as  Johnians  are  found  sufferers  for  very  different  causes.  Mere  local 
curiosity,  common  college  patriotism,  makes  us  seek  for  the  good  which  now 
unites  those  who  in  life  fought  in  opposite  camps.  We  learn  that  the 
things  ia  which  good  men  agree  are  many  and  of  eternal  moment ;  that 
differences  arise  in  great  part  from  misunderstanding.  If  we  are  all  om  in 
Christy  there  can  be  neither  Jew  nor  Greek,  Barbarian  nor  Scythian^  bond 
nor  free.  The  fogs  of  prejudice  and  of  party  melt  away  as  we  follow  those 
who  in  this  place  for  near  four  hundred  years  have  followed  the  Light  of 
the  World. 

Many  at  this  day,  I  have  said,  envjr  our  liberty  and  order.  Hear  the 
teachers  of  Dorpat  groaning  under  Russian  tyranny,  or  the  children  of  Israel 
appealing  to  a  new  Pharaoh.  Mark  how  Prussia  since  1870  has  crept  to 
Canossa,  and,  to  win  the  suf&ages  of  the  Ultramontane  Centre,  has  sacrificed 
the  Old  Catholic  faculty  at  Bonn,  swamping  loyal  professors  by  the  creation 
of  superfluous  chairs  for  men  of  no  academic  fame ;  long  witlmolding  from 
Professor  Langen,  a  man  of  rare  merit,  the  increase  of  stipend  which  was 
his  due ;  making  acceptance  of  the  Vatican  decrees  a  condition  Of  advance- 
ment in  the  hierarchy  of  schools.  Nay,  Pastor  Thummel  was  prosecuted 
by  the  Protestant  state  for  teaching  the  very  doctrines  of  the  Augsburg 
confession,  the  public  prosecutor  daring  to  say  that,  if  Luther  were  now 
alive  and  spoke  as  he  aid  in  the  1 6th  centmy,  the  government  would  drag 
Luther  himself  to  the  bar.  English  politicians  may  indeed  buy  Vatican 
rotes  by  unworthy  concessions;  but  the  example  of  James  II  does  not 
encourage  an  assault  on  academic  freedom. 

341  years  ago  one  of  our  college  preachers,  afterwards  master,  delivered 
at  Court  on  Midlent  Sunday  a  sermon  such  as  few  kings  have  been  privileged 
to  hear.  **  There  was  in  the  North  a  grammar  school,  having  in  the 
University  eight  scholarships  of  one  foundation,  always  replenished  with  the 
scholars  of  that  school,  which  school  b  now  sold,  decayed  and  lost/'  In  a 
year  and  a  month  Sedbergh  school  was  refounded  by  King  Edward.  When 
another  Thomas  Lever  or  Hugh  Latimer  shall  be  raised  up,  he  may  say 
here  what  he  will :  none  will  alence  his  blunt  prophetic  speech.  We  have 
the  liberty  of  prophesying  for  which  Jeremy  Taylor  pleaded ;  an  Elijah,  or, 
to  come  nearer  nome,  a  Rowland  Hill,  may  n-eely  rebuke  what  he  sees 
amiss  in  us,  and  win  the  thanks  of  all  men  of  good  will.  Many  an  Austrian^ 
Russian  or  Spaniard  at  this  hour  sighs  for  a  mere  fraction  of  the  full  tolerance 
which  our  mart3rrs  earned  for  us  at  the  stake  and  in  exile.  If  any  man 
chooses  to  change  his  religion  with  the  last  magazine  article  or  controversial 
novel,  without  approving  his  choice  of  an  oracle,  we  leave  him  to  go  his  way* 
It  may  be  that  aher  many  dajrs  an  Epictetus  or  an  Antoninus  may  teaoi 
him  wnat  the  Church  means  by  saving  the  soul  alive,  saving  the  higher  self, 
the  true  man,  by  crucifying  the  flesh  with  its  affections  and  lusts. 

Let  us  now  praise  famous  men  and  our  fathers  that  begat  us.  The  first 
place,  without  dispute  or  doubt,  belongs  to  John  Fisher,  of  whom  the  tyrant 
who  beheaded  him  challenged  all  the  monarchs  of  Christendom  to  shew  a 
peer  among  their  bbhops.  Hear  him  recount  the  endless  delays  on  the  part 
of  Rome,  of  the  Bishop  of  Ely,  of  my  Lady's  servants,  of  Wolsey,  of  King 
Henry ;  how  each  clamorous  suitor  had  to  be  bought  off;  consider  the  cost 
and  fatigue  of  travel  in  those  day^;  and  you  will  confess  that  the  mere 
material  foundation  and  endowment  of  this  house  was  work  for  a  hero  of 
faith  and  patience.  Examine  the  statutes  caiefuliy  corrected  by  the  Bishop's 
own  hand ;  how  code  succeeded  code,  as  the  vision  of  culture  widened  before 
him ;  read  his  funeral  sermon  on  the  Foundress,  and  other  discourses  which 

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rank  bim  high  among  the  fathers  of  English  prose ;  of  that  prose  which  in 
Che  sermons  of  John  Donne  reached  perhaps  the  greatest  majesty  of  which 
onr  language  is  capable.  Four  colleges — two  of  which  he  was  master, 
Queens'  and  Michaelhouse  (now  Trinity) — ^two  of  which  he  was  legislator 
and  virtual  founder,  Christ's  and  St  John's — are  bound  together  by  special 
obligation  to  Fisher ;  bat  the  entire  university  owes  to  him  more  than  to  any 
other  man.  Oxford  in  the  middle  age  ranked  with  Paris:  Roger  Bacon, 
Bradwardine,  Occam,  Wiclif,  to  name  a  sample,  spread  the  fame  of  literary 
England  through  Europe:  but  Cambridge  was  unknown  till  Fisher  intro« 
duced  Greek  and  Hebrew  among  us ;  when  Erasmus  in  his  rooms  at  Queens' 
was  busy  on  the  first  published  Greek  Testament,  the  reformation  of  religion 
and  the  part  which  Cambridge  would  play  in  it,  became  a  mere  question 
of  time. 

Of  our  masters  two — ^Nicholas  Metcalfe  and  William  Whitaker — are 
immortalised  by  Thomas  Fuller  in  his  Holy  State,  the  one  as  the  good  master 
of  a  college,  the  other  as  the  controversial  divine :  Scaliger's  exclamation 
eomme  il itait  docte  !  ('What  learning '  I)  is  weighter  evidence  of  Whitaker's 
worth  than  any  laboured  encomium  or  royal  patronage.  The  days  when  our 
siaars  had  3^.  a  week  and  fragments  from  the  fellows*  table,  were  dasrs 
in  which  the  college  harboured  as  great  men  as  it  has  ever  bred,  and  as 
loyal  and  grateful. 

Of  scholars,  John  Cheke,  who  taught  Cambridge  and  King  Edward 
Greek,  Ascham  and  William  Grrindal  who  taught  Elizabeth,  were  of  this 
hardy  race.  Since  then  Gataker,  BenUey,  John  Taylor,  down  to  the  Butlers 
and  keimedys,  have  handed  on  the  torch  from  age  to  age.  To  this  day  the 
best  editions  of  venerable  Bede  and  of  Philo  are  the  work  of  Johnians  of  the 
last  century,  John  Smith  and  Thomas  Mangey. 

Of  poets  we  claim  a  score  or  more,  including  Greene,  Ben  Jonson,  Herrick, 
Prior,  Akenside,  Wordsworth,  who  in  his  life  and  doctrine  set  forth  that 
plain  living  and  high  thinhing  which  have  been  the  elory  of  our  house  in 
the  past ;  its  best  friends  will  pray  that  it  may  cease  to  be  when  it  renounces 
the  one  or  the  other.  John  Stuart  Mill  looked  forward  with  dread  to  an 
age  in  which  Wordsworth  should  lose  his  hold  on  the  mind  and  heart  of 
England. 

Of  statesmen  I  will  name  but  three,  Burghley,  Strafford,  Falkland. 
I  make  bold  to  say  that  the  counter-reformation  in  the  i6th  century  and  in 
the  19th,  could  not  have  triumphed  as  it  has,  if  Austrian,  Italian,  Spanish, 
French  statesmen,  had  possessed  the  insight  of  Burghley ;  Prince  Bismarck's 
defeat  sprung  from  an  ignorance  as  to  the  designs  and  power  of  Rome 
shared  by  Niebuhr  and  Ranke.  When  a  learned  German  editor  prints  as  a 
Greek  comic  fragment  a  verse  of  St  Paul,  it  is  not  only  a  revelation  of 
individual  sloth,  but  it  portends  world-wide  changes.  Protestants  who 
despise  the  Bible  justly  forfeit  the  freedom  which  Luther  inherited  from 
St  Paul.  There  is  a  melancholy  truth  in  Dr  Cole's  maxim,  so  often  cast  in 
his  teeth  by  Protestant  disputants  :  Ignorance  is  the  mother  of  devotion^  i.#« 
of  Romish  devotion. 

Of  divines  Redman,  Lever,  Fulke,  Morton,  Cartwright,  Overall,  Sibbes, 
Thomas  Goodwin,  Cave,  Stillingfleet,  down  to  Herbert  Marsh  and  John 
James  Blunt,  are  names  merely  taken  at  haphazard ;  of  the  seven  bishops  im- 
prisoned by  James  II,  three  were  of  St  John^s.  One  forgotten  worthy,  Thomas 
Becon,  Cranmer's  chaplain,  awaits  resurrection  as  a  master  of  racy,  homely 
English ;  a  concordance  to  his  works  would  be  a  priceless  boon  to  English 
lexicography.  Of  converts  to  Rome  we  have  had  several,  the  most  consider- 
able of  whom,  John  Sergeant,  had  been  chaplain  to  Bp  Morton,  so  that  he 
had  at  least  heard  all  that  can  be  said  on  the  Protestant  side.  Of  John 
Tames  Blunt,  as  of  Julius  Hare,  Frederick  Maurice,  Bishops  Kayc  and 
Thirl  wall,  we  may  safely  affirm  that  their  influence,  so  far  as  it  reached,  was 
a  talisman  of  proof  against  all  spells  of  John  Henry  Newman,  perhaps  the 
most  overrated  Englishman  of  this  century. 

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Colenso,  Cotterfll,  were  oora.  In  mj  own  year  Mackenzie,  who  gradosted  from 
Caius,  went  forth,  not  because  he  felt  any  peculiar  aptitude  for  the  work,  but 
because  he  thought  that  some  oife  should  go. 

Of  philanthropists  we  claim  the  liberators  of  the  slaTe^  Clarkson  and 
Wilberforce.  One  of  the  earliest  apostles  of  temperance^  Thomas  Spencer, 
sometime  fellow,  has  earned  the  unsuspected  praise  of  his  nephew  Mr 
Herbert  Spencer. 

Of  antiquaries  Baker  will  ever  be  remembered  by  the  title  '  ejected  fellow  ^ 
which  he  wore  for  more  than  twenty  years  as  a  badge  of  honour.  Sir 
Symonds  D'Ewes,  Dodsworth,  Nalson,  Peck,  the  Drakes,  Whitaker  the 
historian  of  Yorkshire,  are  well  known  to  students  of  history. 

Of  mathematicians  Gilbert,  John  Dee,  Henry  Biiggs,  Brooke  Taylor, 
Herschel,  are  a  handful  out  of  a  vast  multitude  who  have  gladdened  the 
hearts  of  their  teachers  on  degree  day  and  still  keep  alive  among  us  the  old 
Platonic  warning  :    '  Let  boim  enter  here  without  geometry.' 

Among  physicians  Martin  Lister,  Heberden,  Frampton,  Gisbome, 
Pennington,  Haviland,  Watson,  deserve  to  be  rescued  from  that  oblivion 
which  too  soon  overtakes  even  the  greatest  of  the  sons  of  Aesculapius. 

On  a  day  like  this  I  do  not  care  to  play  the  part  of  Cassandra.  In  a  few 
words  I  will  name  one  or  two  points  in  which  the  college  seems  to  have 
gained  ground  since  I  came  up  in  1844. 

The  endowments  are  more  effectively  applied,  so  that  it  is  possible,  as  we  1  .^ 
saw  the  other  day,  for  a  boy  from  a  London  board  school  to  pass  through  P  ^ 
a  Johnian  fellowship  to  a  professorship  in  New  Zealand.    Many  more  subject!  ' 
are  studied  now,  with  far  better  appliances ;  lecturers  can  concentrate  thefar 
attention  on  a  limited  field;   text-books  are  more  exhaustive  and  research 
more    universal;     our   younger    graduates    more    often    study   in    foreign 
universities.  Then  in  Cambridge  the  poorer  residents  greatly  value  the  College 
concerts,  which  are  a  proof  that  we  are  beginning  to  hold  our  advantages 
as  a  trust  for  the  community,  not  for  selfish  enjoyment ;  lee  have  too  much 
recreation,  the  poor  have  far  too  little.    The  college  mission  must  reassure 
those  of  our  friends,  who,  with  the  kindest  intentions,  have  for  some  years 
informed  the  world  that  we  have  cast  off  the  faith ;  in  the  first  thirty  yeara 
of   my  life  here  no   sermon  ever  produced  a  tangible  result  like  Lady 
Margaret's  Church,  Walworth. 

One  word  about  work  remaining  to  be  done. 

Two  great  Ubraries,  Bishop  Fisher's,  the  richest  in  England,  and 
Abp  Willmms's,  were  lost  to  us  in  troublous  times.  We  cannot  make  good 
the  loss,  but  if  each  Tohnian  would  endeavour,  wherever  he  goes,  to  incpive 
for  books  published  oy  members  of  the  coUege,  or  for  records  of  their  bves, 
and  would  send  his  acquisitions  to  our  librarian,  in  a  few  years  our  stores 
would  be  of  priceless  value  to  the  historian  of  letters.  For  many  years 
I  have  sent  lK)oks  to  the  libraries  to  which  they  by  birthright  belonged, 
whether  our  Public  Library,  or  the  Bodleian,  or  college  libraries,  or  Stony* 
hurst  or  Protestant  nonconformist  institutions.  We  may  be  loyal  to  our  own 
church  and  yet  desire  that  every  other  communion  should  breed  men  learned 
in  its  annals.    If  we  give,  we  shall  soon  receive. 

It  depends  on  us  whether  this  place  shall  be  a  more  or  less  comfortable 
club,  or  a  home  of  sound  learning.  Both  it  cannot  be.  Fpicurus  and  Metro- 
dorus  vied  with  one  another  who  could  spend  least  on  the  wants  of  the  body. 
The  gentlemen  who  dined  in  London  the  other  day  for  J^it  a  head  wished 
to  rival  Vitellius.  Epicurus  tells  us  that  he  found  pleasure  in  curtailing  his 
desires;  if  any  one  has- a  prejudice  against  the  observance  of  Lent,  the  May 
term  affords  an  unexceptionable  stage  for  experiments  in  abstinence. 

Sallust's  remark  has  passed  into  a  proverb :  "  It  is  easy  to  maintain  empire 
by  the  arts  whereby  it  was  won  at  the  first."  Newton  and  Bentley  had 
means  of  research  far  inferior  to  ours,  and  perhaps  for  that  very  reason  they 
did  more:  they  learnt  self-reliance.  Cobet,  the  most  soul-stirring  teacher 
of  this  age,  made  his  pupils  begin  Greek  anew  by  closing  their  lexicons.  We 
do  not  learn  English  by  looking  out  every  word  we  hear  or  see,  but  by 


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eoDdnnal  practice  In  speaking  and  reading;  gradnaUy  tb^  mining  of  words 
dawns  upon  ns.  T|ie  pushing  tlirong  of  aids  to  learning  shuts  us  out  from 
the  Canaan  of  our  day  dreams,  from  the  sources  of  ancient  wisdom.  If  we 
once  more,  like  Lipsius  and  Casaubon,  read  the  Greeks  for  their  moral 
doctrines,  if  like  Gataker  we  seriously  compare  the  Stoic  rule  of  life  with 
the  Christian,  we  shall  learn  that  against  a  mechanical  philosophy  the  Greek 
sages  and  the  Hebrew  are  at  one.  It  is  idle,  it  is  weak,  to  complain  that 
such  books  as  De  La  Mettrie's  V  homme  machine  are  reprinted  in  this  age 
and  make  concerts,  l^et  us  hear  in  suph  conversions  a  aivine  call  to  ns  in 
our  own  action,  whethef  as  churchmen  or  citizens,  to  trust  to  spirit  and  to  life, 
rather  than  to  complex  machinery.  None  but  a  madman  could  see  in  Luther 
sn  automaton ;  if  we  had  a  spark  of  Luther's  faith,  we  should  laugh  at 
those  who  explain  spiritual  life — ^faith,  hope,  love — by  the  random  dash 

of  atoms.     Atroc  /iao-iXtue»,  rdv  ^V  i^tXi|Xairfl»t. 

The  greatest  of  the  masters  of  Trinity  College,  Isaac  Barrow,  like  onr 
greatest  master,  William  Whiuker,  died  at  the  early  age  of  47.  The  most 
mdustrious  of  men,  Barrow  must  have  carried  all  eenerous  hearers  with  him, 
ifhen  pleading  thus  for  industry  in  our  particmar  calling,  as  gentlemen 
and  scholars. 

"  How,  being  slothful  in  our  business,  can  we  answer  for  our  ^ioiating 
^e  wills,  for  abusing  the  goodness,  for  perverting  the  charity  and  bonnty 
of  our  worthy  founders  and  benefactors,  who  gave  ns  the  good  things  we 
enjoy,  not  to  maintain  us  in  idleness,  but  for  supports  and  encouragements 
of  our  industry  ?  how  can  we  excuse  ourselves  from  dishonesty  and  perfidious 
dealing,  seeing  that  we  are  admitted  to  these  enjoyments  under  condition 
and  upon  confidence  (confirmed  by  our  free  promises  and  most  solemn 
engagements)  of  using  them  according  to  their  pious  intent,  that  is,  in  a 
diligent  prosecution  of  our  studies ;  in  order  to  tne  service  of  God  andi  of 
the  public  ? 

«  Let  every  scholfu",  when  he  fnisspendeth  an  hour,  or  sluggeth  on  his  bed, 
but  imagine  that  he  heareth  the  voice  of  those  glorious  kings,  or  venerable 
prelates,  or  worthy  gentlemen,*  complaining  thus  and  rating  him :  Why^ 
sluggard^  dost  thou  against  my  will  possess  my  estate}  why  dost  thou 
presume  to  occupy  the  place  due  to  an  industrious  person  f  W)^  dost  thou 
forget  or  despise  thy  obligations  to  my  kindness  f  Ihou  art  an  usurper,  a 
robber,  or  a  purloiner  of  my  goods  ;  which  I  never  intended  for  such  as  thee  : 
J  challenge  thee  of  wrong  to  myself  and  of  sacrilege  Urward  my  God,  to  whose 
service  I  devoted  those  his  gifts  to  me, 

«  How  reproachful  wUf  it  be  to  us,  if  that  expostulation  may  concern  us. 
Wherefore  is  there  a  price  in  the  hand  of  a  fool  to  get  wisdom,  seeing  he 
hath  no  heart  to  it  f  *' — Piov.  xvii,  i6. 

Our  late  master  will  always  be  kept  in  memory  by  this  chapel,  and  by 
the  unfailing  prudence  which  steered  the  college  through  the  breakeis 
of  unrest.  More  than  200  years  ago  Bp  Gunning  had  bequeathed  jf 300 
towards  a  new  chapel,  but  we  had  to  wait  till  the  12th  of  May  1869  before 
tins  building  was  opened  for  daily  service.  Let  me  recall  one  of  the  lessons 
taught  by  Dr  Bateson  from  the  master's  seat.  <*  Suppose  a  college  like  our 
own,  founded  in  a  remote  age  to  foster  learning  and  the  arts,  to  be  a  centre 
of  intellectual  life  and  of  moral  influence. .  Suppose  there  be  in  such  a  college, 
with  every  incentive  and  appliance  for  learning  and  study,  a  band  of  students 
sent  hither  from  year  to  year  with  bright  hopes  and  noble  aspirations,  yet 
manv  of  them  neglecting  or  misusing  Uie  op()ortttnities  for  good,  acquiring 
evil  nabits  and  indulging  in  vicious  propensities,  and  gradually  becoming  a 
gnawing  care  to  their  parents  and  fiiends  and  finally  a  burthen  to  themselves, 
may  we  not  ask  whether  a  student's  life  in  a  noble  college  like  this  is  not  in 
danger  of  becoming  worse  than  a  wasted  opportunity  ?  '* 

I  have  spoken  of  the  college,  but  a  college  is  after  all  only  a  member  of 
a  larger  body ;  when  the  university  suffers,  it  is  unnatural,  it  is  impossible, 
for  us  not  to  suffer  too. 

To-day  we  have  given  to  earth  what  is  mortal  of  a  loyal  son  of  the 


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imiyersitVy  who  knew  and  loved  its  history  as  few  had  done,  deserving  to  . 
rank  witn  Thomas  Fuller,  Thomas  Baker,  William  Cole  and  Charles  Henry 
Cooper.  No  man  perhaps  was  ever  more  deeply  versed  in  the  chronicles 
of  mediaeval  England.  Like  many  undergraduates  some  47  years  ago,  he 
was  inspired  by  the  Dark  Ages  and  other  essays  of  the  acute  and  witty 
Samuel  Roffey  Maitland,  in  whom  St  John's  boasts  the  father  of  modern 
historical  criticism,  and  to  whom,  as  in  private  duty  bound,  I  feel  gratitude 
and  reverence  for  encouragement  generously  given  to  my  early  studies  in 
church  history. 

Luard  was  a  mathematican,  but  he  was  also  an  accomplished,  ardent 
scholar,  to  whom — as  to  Cobet,  whom  in  many  things  he  resembled — 
Bentley,  Dawes,  John  Taylor,  Markland,  Tyrwhitt,  Porson,  Dobree,  Elmsley, 
Gaisford,  Monk,  Blomfield,  were  intimate  friends;  he  was  encompassed 
by  their  relics  and  literally  sat  in  Porson*s  chair.  I  never  met  in  any 
professed  philologist  so  ezact  an  acquaintance  with  the  emendations  on  which 
critical  fame  rests. 

In  defiance  of  broken  health,  and  of  the  bereavement  which  cast  a 
gloom  on  his  last  years,  making  him  long  for  death,  he  was  an  untiring 
student  almost  to  the  very  end.  Chastened  in  the  school  of  suffering, 
constrained  to  dwell  much  abroad,  he  moved  among  foreign  churchmen  and 
authors,  as  amongst  the  poor  of  Great  St  Mary's,  an  ambassador  of  whom 
Cambridge  need  not  be  ashamed.  He  was  a  constant  friend,  true  to  the 
wholesome  Trinity  tradition  that  flattery  degrades  receiver  and  giver ;  he  had 
indeed  a  gracious  courtesy  of  manner  telling  of  French  descent,  but  words 
smoother  than  butter,  softer  .than  oil,  could  no  more  be  wrung  from  him  than 
from  Hugh  Munro,  William  Hepworth  Thompson,  or  the  prophet  Isaiah 
himself. 

Of  the  registraries  his  predecessors  John  Taylor  alone  rivalled  him  in 
learning,  while  none  approached  him  in  ungrudging  pains  lavished  upon  his 
office,  the  mere  routme  of  which  became  of  late  years  overwhelming. 
Mathematician,  bibliographer,  antiquary,  historian,  Unguist,  divine,  he  united 
in  his  single  self,  like  his  friend  our  own  Churchill  Babington,  interests  and 
capacities  which  the  division  of  labour  tends  more  and  more  to  keep  asunder ; 
if  the  whole  gains,  the  individual  will  assuredly  be  dwarfed. 

Not  their  own,  ah  I  not  from  earth  was  flowing 
That  high  strain  to  which  their  souls  were  toned, 

Tear  hj  year  we  saw  them  inly  growing 
Liker  Him  with  Whom  their  hearts  commaned. 

Then  to  Him  they  pass'd ;  hut  still  nnhroken. 

Age  to  age,  lasts  on  that  goodly  line. 
Whose  pure  lives  are,  more  than  all  words  spoken, 

Earth^s  best  witness  to  the  life  divine. 

Subtlest  thought  shall  fail,  and  learning  falter, 

Churches  change,  forms  perish,  systems  go. 
But  our  human  needs,  thev  will  not  alter, 

Chrjsi  no  after  ago  shall  e'er  outgrow. 


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Unhtemity  Examinations,  iSqi, 
Mathematical  Tripos  Part  L 


Wranglers^ 
lo    Pickford 

'^  1  Robcrtsou 
26    Ayen 


Senior  Oftimes^ 
30    Gcdye 
35    Blomfidd 
40    Speight 
46    Maincf 

\st  Class. 
Part  n,    Ds  Bennett  (div.  i) 


junior  OpHmus, 
60    Briggs 
76    FoiJey 
86    Roberts 


^nd  Class, 
Ds  Reeves  (4w.  3) 


Moral  Sciences  Trik)S  Part  I. 

Class  IL  Class  m. 

Edwards,  £.  {div,  1)  Hagbes  {div.  i) 

Part  XI.      Class  I,    Ds  Gibson  (Ethics  and  Metaphysics,  History  of  Pbflo- 

sopby  special  distinction)^  Advanced  Logic 
and  Methodology), 


Law  Tripos  Part  I. 
Class  L  Class  II, 

D'  Soaza  Bum 

WiW 


Class  UA 
Gillespie 
DewsoDiy 
Mahomed  Ahxned 


Admitted  to  the  Degree  of  M.D. 

Mag  Edmund  Carrer  Ds  William  Arthur  FoxweH 

Mag  James  Keir 

Admitted  to  the  Degree  of  M3.    Ds  M.  Grabham 

Admitted  to  the  Degree  of  Sc.D.    Mag  W.  M..  Hicks 

Admitted  (by  proxy)  to  the  Degree  of  Litt.D.    Mag  T.  G.  Tucker 


Medical  Examinations,  Eajstsr  Term  1891. 

First  M.B. 

Chemistry^  eU^ 

Ds  Barton,  P.  F. 
Draper 

Second  M3, 

Gladstone 
McDougall 

Anatomy^  etc. 

Ds  Henry 
SandaU 

Third  M.B. 

Ds  Seccombe 

Surgery,  etc. 

Ds  Attlee,  J. 
Ds  Edmondson 
Ds  Glover,  L.  Qu 

Ds  Simpson,  H» 
DsWare 

Medicine^  etc. 

Ds  Lewis,  S> 
Ds  Watts 

DsWest 

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JOHNIANA. 

Sir  Thomas  Browne  was  one  of  those  tolerant  and  wide -minded  scholars, 
of  whom  the  Church  of  England  has  had  so  many  that  she  has  long  since 
ceased,  not  merely  to  boast  of  them,  but  even  to  mention  them  with  sufficient 
honour  and  gratitude.  What  other  Church  in  the  world  could  afford  to  leave 
Br  Tessopp  in  a  country  rectoiy,  and  to  let  Mr  Gwatkin  be  contented  with  a 
College  omce? 

HJI*V,S, :  Excelsior  (Bridgetown,  Barbadoes),  January  1891. 

The  ladder  from  the  Elementary  School  to'  the  University  for  which 
educationists  have  so  oflen  sighed  is  now  fairly  set  up.  A  boy  from  a 
London  Voluntary  School  has,  by  means  of  a  scholarship  placed  at  the 
disposal  of  the  London  School  Board,  risen  to  the  position  of  a  University 
professor.  The  various  rungs  of  the  ladder  are  worth  recording.  Mr  C.  A.  M. 
Fond  was,  in  1876,  elected  to  the  Pope  Scholarship,  given  for  competition 
among  all  boys  under  thirteen  who  had  been  three  years  in  a  London  Public 
Elementary  School.  He  entered  the  City  of  London  School  in  1877,  and 
remained  there  for  seven  years,  gaining  a  Beaufoy  Scholarship  of  ^50  a  year 
for  four  years.  Having  gained  a  Minor  Scholarship  at  St  John's,  Cambridge, 
he  took  up  his  residence  there  in  October  1883.  In  1885  he  was  placed  in 
the  second  division  of  the  first  class  in  the  Classical  Tripos  Examination, 
Part  I.  In  1889  he  was  placed  in  the  first  class  at  the  Classical  Tripos 
Examination,  Part  II.  Meanwhile  he  had  gone  through  the  Loudon  course, 
having  taken  the  second  place  in  Honours  at  Matrici^Uon  and  gained  the 
Exhibition.  In  1886  he  was  placed  first  in  the  first  class  of  the  Classical 
Honours  List  at  the  B.A.  Examination.  We  need  not  pursue  his  subsequent 
career  in  detail.  It  is  enough  to  state  that  he  was  elected  to  a  fellowship  at 
St  John's  in  1890,  and  that  he  has  just  been  appointed  Professor  of  Classics 
ana  English  in  Auckland  University  College.  This  interesting  record  well 
illustrates  the  valuable  service  that  examinations  may  exert  as,  to  use  Professor 
Huxley's  phrase,  "  capacity-catchers,"  and  the  benefit  that  may  be  conferred 
on  poor  boys  of  genius  by  means  of  scholarships.  Mr  Pond,  in  thanking  the 
Board  for  the  award  of  the  Pope  Scholarship,  which  alone  had  made  all  his 
other  successes  possible,  stated  that  it  would  be  his  constant  hope  that,  as  a 
professor  in  a  young  colony,  he  might  hand  to  others  that  higher  education 
which  the  liberality  of  the  donor  of  wis  scholarship  had  rendered  possible  for 
himselC 

School  Guardian  :  May  2,  189 1. 

**  Young  Americans  could  hardly  realize  that  the  great  Sylvester,  who  with 
Cayley  outranks  all  English  speaking  mathematicians,  was  actually  at  work  in 
our  land.  All  young  men  who  felt  within  themselves  the  divine  longing  of 
creative  power  nastened  to  Baltimore,  made  at  once  b]f  this  Euclid  a  new 
Alexandna.  It  was  this  great  awakening  and  concentration  of  mathematical 
promise,  and  the  subsequent  facilities  offered  for  publication  of  original 
work,  which,  rather  than  any  teaching,  made  the  American  renaissance  in 
mathematics.     •     •     • 

"  A  short,  broad  man  of  tremendous  vitality,  the  physical  type  of  Here- 
ward,  the  Last  of  the  English,  and  his  brother-in-arms,  Winter,  Sylvester's 
capacious  head  was  ever  lost  in  the  highest  cloud-lands  of  pure  mathematics. 
Often  in  the  dead  of  night  he  would  get  his  favorite  pupil,  that  he  might 
communicate  the  very  last  product  of  his  creative  thought.  Everything  he  saw 
suggested  to  him  something  new  in  the  higher  algebra.  This  transmutation 
of  everything  into  new  mamematics  was  a  revelation  to  those  who  knew  him 
intimately.  They  began  to  do  it  themselves.  His  ease  and  fertility  of 
invention  proved  a  constant  encouragement,  while  his  contempt  for  provincial 
stupidities,  such  as  the  American  hieroglyphics  for  ir  and  e,  which  have  even 
found  their  way  into  Webster's  Dictionary,  made  each  young  worker  apply  to 
himself  the  stnctest  tests. 


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**  To  know  him  was  to  know  one  of  the  historic  figores  of  all  time,  one  of 
the  immortals ;  and  when  he  was  really  moved  to  speak,  his  eloqoence  equalled 
his  genios.  I  never  saw  a  more  astonished  man  than  James  RnsseU 
Lowell  listening  to  the  impassioned  oratory  of  Sylvester's  address  upon  the 
bigotry  of  Christians. 

*'  That  the  presence  of  such  a  man  in  America  was  epoch-making  is  not  to 
be  wondered  at.     His  loss  to  us  was  a  national  misfortune." 

Dr  G.  B,  HalsUd:  Cajori*s  Teaching  and  History  of  Mathematics 
in  the  United  States,  Washington  1890  (p.  265). 

A  Tomb  in  Wibcborne  Minster. 
(The  Father  of  the  Lady  Margaret) 

Long  time  we  fought,  firm-faced,  against  the  foe. 
Guarding  the  liUes  of  the  fair  far  France 
Against  the  shafts  of  adverse  circumstance 

That  brought  upon  this  man  what  all  men  know. 

Ah,  Aquitainel  where  late  the  roses  blow 

The  sweetest,  e'en  in  warrior's  mischance 

Ours  once  again!  and  Norman  valiance 
That  Cressy  and  that  Agincourt  could  show! 

Sweet,  art  thou  there  ?    Bide  patient,  Margaret. 
Sooth,  who  can  tell  what  after  us  shall  be? 
Rest  we  in  peace  whatever  may  befall. 
Pray  Mary's  Grace :  God's  judgments  are  not  yet. 
Reach  me  thy  hand;   ana  mine,  O  Love,  for  thee. 
Now  may  we  sleep  until  His  Trumpets  call. 

Charles  Sayle:  Academy^  Fehnuuy  7,  1891. 


Lady  Margaret  Boat  Club. 
The  May  Races. 

First  Boat. 

St.  lbs, 

^(CTw  A.  C.  Langmore •  10  4 

2  W.  Mc  Dougall .  •  •  • .   ••••ID  12 

3  H.  C.  Langley    .,,, ii  .3 

4  S.  B.  Reid 11  ii 

5  F.J.AUen 11  13 

.    o    J.A.Cameron ,.,   ii  13 

7    A.T.Wallis II  4 

Stroke  V,  IE..  Sh^yr 10  7 

Cbx  J.  A.  Kilbum 8  I 


Second  Boat. 

St.  UfS. 

Bow'W.  X.JjBsah 9  5 

2  W.B.Morton    .• ••  10  2 

3  F.  D.  Hessev  •  • ii  o 

4  W.  R.  Lewis 

5  G.Blair   12  7 

6  A.  £.  Buchanan    ...•••••  11  7 

7  H.E.Knight 11  3 

5/^/^^  J.  A.  Telford 10  o 

C^^  A.  N.  Wilkins    8  3 


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Friday,  June  12.  The  First  Boat  never  quite  settled  down  to 
their  work,  and  at  the  Railway  Bridge  Jesus  were  within  a 
length. 

The  Second  Boat  bumped  Corpus  just  at  the  start.  By  some 
means  or  other  Corpus  ran  into  the  bank  and  completely 
dinashed  their  ship.  The  bows  of  our  boat  ran  into  their 
stroke's  rigger  and  had  the  skin  stripped  off  for  about  10  feet. 

Saturday,  June  13.  The  First  Boat  went  much  better  than 
on  Friday,  and  at  Grassy  had  gained  a  length  on  Hall  Second^ 
however,  up  the  Long  Reach  Hall  Second  drew  away  slightly 
and  finished  about  a  length  and  a  half  in  front. 

The  Second  Boat  rowed  in  the  1888  Swaddle,  and  were 
bumped  by  Corpus  at  the  Ditch. 

Monday,  June  15.  The  violent  thunderstorm  seemed  to 
damp  the  ardour  of  our  First  Boat.  Jesus  came  up  very  fast 
about  Ditton  and  were  only  a  very  few  inches  oflf  at  the  finish^ 

The  Second  Boat  started  at  rather  a  slow  stroke,  and  were 
caught  at  Post  Corner  by  First  Trinity  Second; 

Tuesday,  June  16.  The  First  Boat  again  rowed  over,  and  as 
on  previous  nights  gained  on  Hall  Second  up  to  Ditton.  After 
Ditton  Jesus  came  up  to  within  three-quarters  of  a  length  but 
were  never  dangerous. 

In  the  Second  Boat  stroke  and  bow  changed  places.  They 
fowed  very  pluckily  but  were  caught  at  Grassy  by  Hall  Third. 

First  Boat. 
Bffm — Lacks  siilartness  and  a  better  finish,  but  has  come  on  well  on  a  small 

amount  of  experience. 
Tato — Has  promising  form.    Like  bow  wants  more  exercise  if  he  means  to  dor 

welL 
Three — Hats  a  good  finish  and  can  work.    Seems  to  want  greater  suppleness 

and  ease. 
Pour — ^Has  improved  on  last  year  in  the  use  of  his  slide ;  has  rowed  hard  hi 

spite  of  unfitness. 
Fi-oe — Swings  out  weU  but  does  not  cover  his  blade  aU  through  the  stroke^ 

consequently  his  finish  is  bad. 
Six — Is  smart  and  has  obtained  more  command  over  Ins  swing  and  slide  than 

last  year. 
Seven — Like  some  other  members  of  the  crew  gets  sometimes  short  at  the 

finish.    Works  consistently  and  races  well. 
Stroke — Does  not  always  swing  straight  bat  works  and  spurts  hard. 
Cox — ^His  best  point  is  in  cheering  on  the  crew ;  his  steering  needs  improvement. 

Second  Boat. 

Bow — Swings  short  but  works  well. 

jioo — ^Does  not  use  his  legs  enough  and  should  sit  up  more,  but  is  willing. 
Ihree — Has  been  hampered  by  illness  this  term.    Works  hard  but  should  pay 
more  attention  to  the  man  in  front. 

Four — Rowed  well  for  an  untrained  man. 

Five — Has  come  on  this  tertti.    Needs  plenty  of  fixed- seat  rowing.    Works 
his  hardest. 

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ifi»— >Wlth  practice  thoold  prove  a  useful  man.    Il  slow  with  his  finish. 
S€wn — Should  make  a  useful  man  when  he  has  learnt  the  use  of  his  slide. 
Stroke — Has  length  but  a  slight  hang.    Gjets  a  smart  beginning  but  does  not 

take  it  through. 
Cox — ^Has  improved  during  the  term. 

At  a  General  Meeting  held  on  Saturday,  Jane  13,  the 
following  officers  were  elected  for  the  October  Term: — Ftrsi 
Captain — ^J.  A.  Cameron.  Second  Captain — S.  B.  Reid.  Hon. 
^tcrttary — ^A.  C.  Langmore.  Hon.  Treasurer — W.  McDougall. 
FiniLekf  Capiain^}^.  C.  Langley.  Second  Lent  Captain — 
F.  D.  Hessey.  Additional  Captains — B.  Long,  G.  Blair,  F.  M. 
Smith,  W.  Morton,  A.  E.  Buchanan,  W.  A.  Lamb. 

Thanks  were  voted  to  Mr  Daman  of  Emmanuel  for  his 
kindness  in  coaching  the  First  Boat. 

Cricket  Club. 

We  had  a  fairly  successful  season  this  year,  the  record  being — 
won  4,  lost  I,  drawn  11,  while  5  matches  were  not  played^ 
owing  to  wet  and  other  causes.  As  was  the  case  last  year,  the 
toss  was  lost  time  after  time,  and  this  was  often  the  cause 
of  the  match  resulting  in  a  draw,  as  our  bowling  was  never  too 
strong,  though  it  was  certainly  better  than  last  yean  The 
fielding  was  as  a  rule  distinctly  good,  though  not  at  all  uniformly 
so,  the  principal  failing  being  in  throwing  in^  which  was  most 
erratic.  There  seems  to  be  some  doubt  about  the  result  of  our 
return  match  against  Trinity :  they  claim  it  as  a  win,  but  as  it 
was  fixed  for  a  two-day  match,  and  no  other  arrangement  appears 
to  have  been  made,  it  was  a  draw,  only  one  innings  each  being 
played  on  the  second  day,  owing  to  the  first  day  being  wet. 

Of  last  year's  team  there  were— J.  H.  C.  Fegan,  H.  Roughton, 
F.  J.  NichoUs,  H.  Wilcox,  C.  H.  Tovey,  A.  E.  Elliott.  J.  Sanger, 
and  T.  L.  Jackson ;  those  who  received  their  colours^  this  year 
were— C.  Moore,  J.  J.  Robinson,  G.  R.  Joyce,  and  W.  G. 
Wrangham. 

The  Eleven, 
y,  H,  C.  /2f^i»— Powerful  hitter,  but  timid  in  defence.    Veiy  good  field. 
Unfortunately  has  been  unable  to  play  much  owing  to  work. 

F.  y.  Nicholls^-Good  bat  and  bowler,  but  very  unlucky.  Splendid  field 
anywhere. 

jy.  Koughtonr^HsLS  quite  recovered  his  old  form.  His  batting  har  been  roost 
consistent,  he  never  having  fiedled  to  score  double  figures  for  the  College. 
Fair  fast  bowler;  good  fidfd. 

JST.  Witcox-~'Feil  aS  in  bowling  at  the  beginning  of  the  season,  but  improved 
greatly  later  on.    Poor  bat  and  field. 

A.  E.  Elliott— Very  steady  bat  with  stubborn  defence,  and  moderate  change 
bowler.    Not  eager  in  the  field. 

y.  SangerSeems  to  have  lost  his  nerve  behind  the  wickets.  Hard-hitting 
bat. 

C.  H.  Tovey — A  useful  bat  with  his  own  style;  fair  slow  bowler;  very  keen 
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r.  Z.  yacks(m—naB  improved  wonderftilly  in  batting.    Good  field  at  point. 
C.  Moore^K  steady  bat :  hits  hard  when  set.    Slow  in  the  field. 
y.  J.  Robinson — ^Very  successful  bat  at  the  beginning  of  the  season,  but  wa» 
handicapped  by  the  wet  wickets^   Fair  field  and  moderate  change  bowlei;< 

G.  R.  yoyce—YsXx  bat  and  field ;  can  bowl. 

W.  G.  Wnmgham-^'Qood,  fields  but  inclined  ta  h^  sla^    Hard  hitter. 

Matches^ 

Mty  I.  f^.  MagdaltBe.  Wort.  The  College  made  sif  for  5.  wicketn 
(Roughton  99,  Toppin  32),  and  declared  their  innings  closed;  and  then 
disposed  of  Magdalene  for  92. 

May  2.    V.  Hawks.    Rain  prevented  play. 

May  4.  V.  Trinity.  Drawn.  Trinity  were  oat  for  1 80,  owing  to 
Toppin's  splendid  bowling :  he  took  9  wickets  for  46  runs.  We  then  scored. 
114  for  a  wickets  (Robinson  84). 

May  5.  V.  Christ's.  Lost  by  2  runs,  owing  to  rash  running  at  the  close 
of  our  innings.  Christ's  156.  St  John's  154  (Moore  40,  Fegan  4i>>. 
Robinson  took  4  wickets  for  29  runs.. 

May  6  and  7.  v.  Pembroke.  Drawn.  Pembroke  217  and  203.  St 
John's  256  (Tovey  not  out  79,  Elliott  38,  Jackson  36).  In  their  second  innings. 
Koughton  took  6  wickets  for  60  runs. 

May  9.  V.  Selwyn.  Drawn.  St  John's  made  248  for  6  wickets,  and 
declared  the  innings  closed  (Elliott  6%,  Fegan  51,  NichoUs  42,  Roughton  40)^ 
Selwyn  then  scored  128  for  2  wickets. 

May  II  and  12.  v.  Jesus.  Drawn.  Jesus  337  for  8  wickets  (innings 
declared  closed).  St  John's  187  (Robinson  42,  Nicholls  41-  not  out,  Fegan 
39)  and  163  for  7  wickets  (Sanger  26,  Tovey  21,  Joyce  22  not  out). 

May  13.  V.  Clare.  Won.  Clare  89.  (Nicholls  4  wickets  for  29)^ 
St  John's  1x8  for  9  wickets  (Jackson  20). 

May  15.  V.  Caius,  Drawn.  Caius  made  227  for  8  vrickets  and  declared 
innings  closed.  St  John's  131  for  3  wickets  (Roughton  53  not  out,  Elliott  25^ 
Tovey  23  not  out). 

May  16.  V.  Clare^  RiUn  prevented  further  play  when  we  bad  scored 
29  for  2  wickets. 

May  18.  V.  St  Bartholomew's  Hospital.  Snow  covering  the  ground,  it 
was  impossible  to  dream  of  playing  cricket.  A  snowball  fight  was  suggested, 
but  as  the  Hospital  Secretaiy  wired  that  they  were  not  coming,  it  feU 
through* 

May  19..  V,  Queens'.  Won.  St  John's  scored  168  (Roughton  41^ 
Moore  36,  Jackson  26),  and  got  Queens'  out  for  56,  TQvey  taking  4  wicketa 
for  15  runs,  Roughton  2  for  9,  and  Wilcox  2  for  10. 

Mety  20,    V.  Crusaders.    Not  played  owing  to  rain« 

May  21.    V.  Peterhouse^  ti  m  m 

May  23.  V.  King's.  Won.  King's  were  all  out  for  106,  Wilcox 
getting  4  wickets  for  20  runs.  We  then  scored  138  for  7  wickets  (Roughton 
62,  NichoUs  26,  Sanger  21). 

May  ^5  and  26u  v.  Trinity.  Drawn.  .  There  was  no  play  on  the  25th. 
On  the  26th  we  were  disposed  of  for  X03  (Sanger  22,  Joyce  28),  while 
Trinity  made  172  for  8  wickets. 

May  27.  V.  Selwyn.  Drawn.  Selwyn  declared  their  innings  closed 
with  their  score  at  182  for  8  wickets.  St  John's  then  lost  4  wickets  foic 
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May  30.    V.  Emmanuel.    Drawn.    Emmanuel  batted  first  and  xan  up 
•  score  of  191.    St  John's  scored  49  for  3  wickets  (Robinson  27). 

June  I.    V.  Christ's.    Drawn.    Christ's  151  (Roughton  6  wickets  for  47). 
St  John's  103  for  9  wickets  (Roughton  43). 

yune  2.    V.  King's.    Drawn.    St  John's  204  for  7  wickets  (Fegan  6o^ 
Jackson  35,  Tovey  26).    King's  lost  4  wickets  for  47. 


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Np.of 

Kame.  runs. 

H.  Roughton 429    . 

t.  H.  C.  Fegan 346    . 

G.R.  Joyce zz6    . 

P.J.  Nicholl* 194    . 

C.H.  Tbvey   241    ., 

A.  E.  Elliott aoo    . 

T.  L.  Jackson  147    . 

J.  J.  Robinson   SX4    . 

J.  Sanger 171     . 

C.Moore 144    . 

W.  G.  Wrangham   44    . 

fJ.Wilcoa  ; 9    . 


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T.  L.  Ja^luon Z7 

H.  Wilcox a86 

H.  Roughton 414 

J.  NichoUs 464 

E.Elliott   „ 336 

C.  h.  ToTey   473 

J.J.  Robmton  a7a 


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Rugby  Union  Football  Club, 

At  a  Meeting  of  the  above  Club  held  in  T.  L,  Jackson's 
rooms  on  Monday,  May  25,  the  following  were  elected  officers 
fqr  the  ensuing  season  : 

Captain — ^T.  L.  Jackson.    Secretary^-S.  R.  Joyce. 


Association  Football  Club. 

At  a  Meeting  held  on  Tuesday,  May  19,  in  C.  H.  Tovey's 
rooms,  the  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  season  1891-92; 

Captain^G.  C.  Jackson.    Sscretary-^W.  H.  Skene. 

There  will  be  five,  possibly  six,  colours  up  next  term.  With 
one  or  two  exceptions  there  are  but  few  promising  seniors* 
80  the  main  hope  of  completing  the  team  satisfactorily  will  be 
in  the  freshmen.  In  any  case,  however,  we  can  hardly  expect 
so  successful  a  season  as  we  had  under  the  able  captaincy  o( 
C.  H.  Tovey. 


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Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

President— V^,  Fr  Smith,  M.A.  Captain— C  E.  Owen.  H(m»  Secretary-^ 
H.  S.  Willcocks.  Hon.  Treasurer— V.  M.  Dadina.  Committee— P.  F.  Barton, 
F.  D.  Hessey,  B.  H.  I^ees,  J.  Lupton. 

The  fine  weather  with  which  the  first  fortnight  of  the  season 
opened  raised  our  hopes,  but  the  succeeding  rains  have  greatly 
interfered  with  many  of  the  matches  and  actually  prevented 
eight  matches  from  being  played, 

The  result  of  the  season  fpr  us  is  7  wins  and  5  defeats.  We 
lost  to  Pembroke,  the  Hall,  Christ's,  Clare,  Jesus.  The  two 
last  colleges  we  defeated  in  the  first  of  the  two  matches.  The 
matches  won  were  against  Clare  (i),  Jesus  (1),  Caius  (i), 
Corpus  (2),  Mayflies  (2). 

After  the  Jesus  return  match,  Friday,  May  29,  H.  S. 
Willcocks  and  F.  R.  Dinnis  received  their  colours.  The  College 
Singles  were  won  by  C.  E.  Owen,  H.  S.  Willcocks  being  second. 
F.  R.  Dinnis  and  A.  Clegg  beat  W.  J.  Bythell  and  C.  H. 
Blomfield  in  the  Final  of  the  Open  Doubles.  The  entries  for 
the  Singles  Handicaps  numbered  50.  They  were  won  by  Owen. 
The  next  three  left  in  were  Foxley,  Haslett  and  Bland. 

A  few  remarks  on  the  individual  play  of  the  Six  will  be 
interesting  and  instructive. 
C,  E.  Owen — Unfortunately  has  been  prevented  from  playing  much  this  year. 

Plays  a  showy  game  and  has  a  smashing  service. 
P,  F,  Barton — Plays  a  strong  game.    Has  some  good  returns  from  the  left 

side  of  the  court.    Has  been  at  a  disadvantage  owing  to  his  right  hand 

having  been  hurt. 
W»  L.  Bentkall — Seems  to  have  fallen  off  somewhat  since  last  year,  but  has 

rendered  valuable  service  to  the  College. 

E,  A,  HensUy — Has  not  improved  since  last  year.    Plays  a  steady  game, 

though  not  at  all  brilliant. 
H,  S,  Willcocks — Scores  off  a  weak  man,  but  b  not  seen  to  such  advantage 
against  a  strong  pair.    Can  kill  a  short  lob. 

F,  R.  Dinnis — Succeeds  in  returning  most  balls  and  exhibits  great  keenness, 

but  does  not  volley  with  sufficient  accuracy. 

C.  E.  Owen  and  W.  L.  Benthall,  who  represented  St  John's 
fthis  year  in  the  Inter-collegiate  Cup  Ties,  were  fortunate  enough 
to  reach  the  final  round.  They  beat  Christ's  and  Clare,  but 
Trinity  Hall,  represented  by  the  brothers  Alien,  proved  too 
strong  for  them.    The  scores  were  6 — 2,  6 — 4. 

Bythell,  Lupton,  Blomfield,  Foxley,  and  Villy  have  also 
played  in  matches. 

Our  prospects  for  next  year  are  not  very  rosy:  apparently 
five  out  of  the  Six  will  have  gone  down. 

The  entries  for  the  Newbery  Challenge  Cup  numbered  eight. 
In  the  Final  round  Owen  beat  Benthall,  the  late  holder. 

In  the  University  Tournament  H.  Willcocks  has  succeeded 
in  reaching  the  semi-final  round  of  the  Handicap,  playing  from 
scratch ;  we  hope  he  will  be  successful  in  the  next  two  rounds ; 
and  C.  E.  Owen,  playing  with  Campbell  of  the  Hall,  gained 
second  prize  in  the  Open  Doubles. 

P.  F.  Barton  has  been  elected  Captain  for  the  Long  Vacation, 
with  Bythell  as  Hon.  Secretary, 


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Eagle  Lawn  Tennis  Club. 

The  following  were  elected  members  this  term:— J.  J. 
Robinson,  G.  R.  Joyce,  W.  McDougall,  A.  C.  Langmore, 
C.  Moore,  F.  D.  Hessey,  E.  Ealand,  and  Dr  L.  E.  Shore. 

An  attempt  was  made  to  have  some  tennis  ties,  bat  owing 
to  weather  &c.  only  one  tie  was  played  oif  in  the  first  fortnight, 
and  then  some  over-ardent  spirit  tore  the  notice  down  one 
night,  giving  the  Secretary  the  pleasure  of  making  the  list  out 
all  over  again,  for  which  his  gratitude  is  qualified.  The  ardent 
spirit  may  tear  down  the  notice  again  now  if  he  likes,  as  the 
ties  are  not  likely  to  get  much  further,  and  it  will  save  someone 
else  the  trouble. 

Lacrosse. 

The  following  officers  have  been  elected  for  next  term: — 
Captain — J.  Villy.  Secre/afy—^L.  C.  Grenville.  Commiitee — 
H.  C.  Lees,  J.  Lupton.     Captain  of^  Varsity-^Y.  Villy. 


4TH  Camb.  (Univ.)  Volunteer  Battalion:   The  Suffolk 

Regiment. 

B  Company^ 

The  Inspection  was  held  on  the  Corps  ground  on  Tuesday, 
May  5,  Colonel  Collins  being  the  Inspecting  Officer.  For  the 
first  time  the  new  accoutrements  were  worn.  The  Inspection 
Dinner  was  given  in  the  Hall  of  Gonville  and  Caius  College. 

On  Saturday,  May  9,  a  detachment  proceeded  to  Hatfield* 
and  acted  as  left  picquet  of  a  force  in  bivouac.  The  Artists  and  a 
detachment  of  Herts  Volunteers  formed  an  attacking  force. 
The  sham  fight  which  ensued  was  more  than  usually  enigmatic. 
A  company  of  the  Artists,  while  marching  to  flank,  received  a 
series  of  withering  volleys  with  silent  disdain,  only  to  advance 
gaily  as  if  nothing  had  happened. 

The  following:  promotions  have  been  approved  by  the 
Commanding  Officer :  Corporal  W.  B.  Hutton  to  be  Sergeant, 
Lance-Corporal  A.  B.  Perkins  to  be  Corporal,  Private  J.  W.  H. 
Ditchfield  to  be  Lance-Corporal.  The  name  of  Sergeant 
•R.  B.  Wilkinson  has  been  sent  in  to  the  Colonel  for  one  of  the 
vacant  commissions.  The  Company  has  come  out  very  strongly 
in  shooting.  For  the  Peek  bowl  (7  shots  at  600  yards)  we 
had  the  first  three  competitors,  Cordeaux  6a,  Reeves  61, 
Wright  58. 

Corporal  Cordeaux  also  wins  the  Prince  of  Wales*  Cup  with 
a  score  of  150,  and  Reeves  the  Caldwell  Cup  with  a  score  of  26. 

The  Company  Cup  was  won  by  Private  Wright  with  a  score 
of  82. 

Corporal  Cordeaux  is  a  member  of  the  '  eight '  for  Bisley. 


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Debating  Societt. 

Presidita^G.  H.  R.  Garcia.  Vice-Prtsident'^VJ ,  B.  Morton. 
Treasurir^'R,  £.  Mason.  Secrekay-^^J^ahomt^  Ahmed.  CammittU'^' 
P.  Green  and  H.  Williamson. 

The  Debating  Society  has  fully  maintained  this  Term  the 
reputation  that  it  has  won  in  the  past,  as  an  institution 
eminently  fitted  for  the  purposes  for  which  it  is  intended. 
There  has  been  a  great  deal  of  diversity  and  novelty  in  the 
subjects  discussed,  if  not  in  the  speakers,  and  the  small 
attendance  on  a  few  occasions  has  been  more  than  compen- 
sated for  by  the  greatly  increased  interest  shewn  at  other  times, 
as  well  as  by  the  presence  and  participation  in  more  than  one 
debate  of  some  of  the  most  distinguished  speakers  from 
sister  societies.  This  last  is  a  practice,  the  importance  and 
utility  of  which  cannot,  we  think,  be  too  much  urged,  and  one 
which  we  hope  to  see  continued  with  increased  frequency  in 
the  future.  It  draws  larger  audiences,  makes  members  take 
greater  pains  over  their  speeches,  and  directly  promotes  that 
healthy  spirit  of  rivalry  without  which  progress  in  everything 
is  but  small  and  slow. 

The  debates  were  as  follows : — 

April  25 — "That  this  House  cannot  approve  of  the  recent 
decision  in  the  Jackson  Case."  Proposed  by  J.  A.  Nicklin. 
Opposed  by  G.  G.  Desmond. 

May  2 — ''That  this  House  is  of  opinion  that  steps  should 
be  taken  by  the  Government  for  the  suppression  of  the  Opium 
Traffic  in  India."  Proposed  by  H.  Williamson*  Opposed  by 
K.  G.  Deshpande. 

May  9^— "That  this  House  would  approve  of  a  Bill  to 
regulate  the  hours  of  manual  labour."  Proposed  by  P.  Green. 
Opposed  by  A.  J.  Pitkin. 

May  16 — "That  the  present  exigent  and  growing  claims  of 
the  L.M.B.C.  call  for  its  immediate  reformation."  Proposed 
by  F.  Nicklin  B.A.    Opposed  by  F.  D.  Hessey. 

May  23 — "That  this  House  is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
immediate  federation  of  the  Empire  is  essential  to  the  con- 
tinuance of  England's  greatness."  Proposed  by  W.  J.  Brown 
B.A.    Opposed  by  G.  G*  Desmond. 

May  30 — "That  this  House  approves  of  vivisection  and 
regrets  the  laws  now  limiting  its  practice."  Proposed  by 
A.  H.  Whipple.    Opposed  by  R.  E.  Baker. 

June  6 — "  That  in  the  opinion  of  this  House  no  man  ought 
to  possess  more  than  one  vote  at  parliamentary  elections." 
Proposed  by  H.  £.  Long.    Opposed  by  Mahomed  Ahmed. 


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Musical  Society. 

C.  M.  Rice  (bass)  and  F.  G.  Given-Wilson  (tenor)  have  been 
recommended  for  Choral  Studentships,  and  C.  O.  Raven  (tenor) 
has  been  recommended  for  an  additional  Studentship.  We 
offer  them  all  our  congratulations. 

At  last  we  are  able  to  announce  that  our  assets  are  greater 
than  our  liabilities,  and  consequently  we  shall  commence  next 
session  with  a  small  balance  to  the  good,  a  fact  which 
(considering  that  in  two  years  we  have  wiped  off  a  debt  of  ^50) 
speaks  volumes  for  the  admirable  finance  of  our  Treasurer. 
Nor  can  it  be  said  that  the  necessary  retrenchments  have  in 
any  way  lowered  the  eflSciency  of  the  Society.  The  Smoking 
Concerts  of  this  last  session  have  been  perhaps  as  popular 
as  any  in  Cambridge — if  the  number  of  guests  is  any  criterion  ; 
the  "Penny  Pop"  was  in  every  way  admirable,  while  the 
popularity  of  the  May  Concert  may  be  inferred  from  the  fact 
that  the  Hall  could  have  been  half  filled  over  again,  had  that 
been  possible. 

The  following  were  the  officers  during  the  May  Term  : 

President— ThSBiadLys,  Trwirwfw— Rev  A.  J.  Stevens  M.A.  Secretary-^. 
F.  W.  Camegy.  Librarian— ¥,  D.  Sturgess.  Assist.  Sec.—H.  CoUison. 
Committer— A,  B.  F.  Cole,  F.  M.  Smith,  F.  G.  Given- Wilson. 

The  Society  gave  their  May  Concert  on  June  12  in  the 
College  Hall,  an  innovation  which  seems  to  have  met  with 
pretty  general  approval.  The  programme  commenced  with 
a  Part  Song  in  Canon  Form,  He  who  trusts  in  Ladies  fair  builds 
a  castle  in  the  air^  by  Eisenhofer,  sung  by  a  chorus  of  men's 
voices,  and  conducted  by  A.  S.  Tetley  B.A.  This  was  followed 
by  a  Pianoforte  Duet  consisting  of  the  Scherzo  and  Trio  from 
Beethoven's  Septet,  and  a  Norwegian  Dance  by  Grieg.  These 
were  admirably  played  by  A.  S.  Kelly  and  V.  A.  Mundella, 
the  Norwegian  Dance  (although  played  too  fast)  being 
particularly  charming.  Next  came  the  well-known  song  from- 
Sampson,  Honour  and  ArmSy  well  sung  by  F.  W.  Camegy, 
who  gave,  in  reply  to  the  vociferous  demands  for  an  encore, 
the  Friar's  song  from  Ivanhoe,  The  next  item  consisted  of  two 
quartetts,  Integer  Vitae,  by  Flemming,  and  livening  by  L.  De  Call, 
charmingly  sung  by  F.  G.  Given- Wilson,  H.  Collison,  F.  W. 
Camegy,  and  C.  M.  Rice.  This  was  followed  by  a  song. 
Von  ewiger  Liehe  by  Brahms,  very  beautifully  sung  by  MisS 
Eva  Kitson.  This  perhaps,  of  the  musical  items,  was  the 
most  enjoyable,  the  song  being  one  of  remarkable  beauty, 
with  less  than  usual  of  that  intricacy  which  is  so  characteristic 
of  Brahms'  writings,  while  such  difficulties  as  occur  only 
served  to  render  the  song  more  interesting  and  to  emphasise 
the  excellence  of  Miss  Kitson's  interpretation.  It  is  almost 
needless  to  say  that  an  encore  was  demanded,  in  response  to 
which  Miss  Kitson  sang  a  pretty  song  of  Molloy's,  The  Devoted 


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Apple.  After  this  John  Sanger  recited  a  scene  from  TJu 
Heir  at  Law^  in  which  he  surpassed  himself;  whether  his 
impersonation  of  Dr  Pangloss,  whose  pride  was  bound  up  in 
his  honorary  degree  of  A.S.S.,  or  of  George  Dowlass,  the 
illiterate  peer's  son,  who  "knew  a  thing  or  two/'  was  the 
better  it  would  be  impossible  to  decide;  suffice  it  then  to 
say  that  John  Sanger  was  "  immense."  As  an  encore  he  gave 
that  gem  of  the  Light  Green,  The  Vulture  and  the  Husbandman, 
The  First  Part  of  the  Concert  was  then  concluded  by  a  Part 
Song,  The  FishermatCs  Song^  by  RafF,  sung  without  accompani- 
ment by  the  chorus.  After  an  interval  for  refreshment  and 
conversation,  the  Second  Part  commenced  with  a  somewhat 
Bacchanalian  Part  Song,  Hard  Times,  by  Diirmer,  sung  by  the 
chorus;  perhaps  the  best  of  their  performances.  Next  came 
Schubert's  Serenade,  exquisitely  sung  by  Miss  Kitson,  who 
gave  for  an  encore  2'he  Banks  of  Allan  Water.  This  was 
followed  by  a  charming  Vocal  Duet,  Flow  Gently  Deva,  sung 
by  F.  G.  Given-Wilson  and  F.  W.  Carnegy,  to  which  succeeded 
a  song,  Come,  Margarita,  Come,  from  Sullivan's  Cantata  "  The 
Martyr  of.Antioch."  This  song,  in  itself  not  in  any  way 
notable,  was  redeemed  by  F.  G.  Given-Wilson's  remarkably 
good  rendering.  It  can  safely  be  said  that  he  has  never  been 
heard  to  better  advantage  than  on  this  occasion.  In  response 
to  an  imperative  demand  for  an  encore  he  sang  Constancy, 
by  Cobb.  The  next  item  consisted  of  "Imitations  and 
Illustrations,"  by  John  Sanger.  Perhaps  the  most  successful 
item  in  this  was  the  imitation  of  several  well-known  actors, 
ending  with  an  inimitable  burlesque  of  Mr  Henry  Irving,  in 
"The  dream  of  the  bilious  beadle."  Corney  Grain's  characteristics 
were  also  admirably  caught.  "The  stage  baritone,"  singing 
"I  Fear  no  Foe"  was  thoroughly  appreciated,  the  illustrations 
on  the  backs  of  the  pages  of  the  music  being  irresistibly 
comic.  The  last  item  was  Cobb's  If  Doughty  Deeds,  spiritedly 
sung  by  the  chorus,  the  two  short  solos  being  taken  by 
F.  W.  Carnegy  and  H.  Collison.  This  ended  a  most  enjoyable 
concert,  reflecting  great  credit  on  the  organisation  of  the 
Society. 

The  thanks  of  the  Society  are  due  to  the  Master  and  Fellows 
who  permitted  the  use  of  the  Hall ;  to  A.  S.  Tetley,  who 
conducted,  for  the  great  pains  he  has  taken  over  the  rehearsals 
of  the  Part  Songs;  to  Miss  Eva  Kitson  for  her  kindness  in 
singing;  to  Messrs  Griffiths  and  Overton,  who  very  kindly 
assisted  the  Tenors  of  the  Chorus;  to  V.  A.  Mundella,  who 
accompanied;  and  lastly  to  the  Junior  Bursar,  Mr  Heitland, 
to  whose  ready  assistance  and  advice  the  Society  owes  the- 
entire  absence  of  hitch  of  any  kind  during  the  necessary 
re-arrangements  in  the  Hall. 

It  has  been    suggested  that  the   History  of   the   Musical 
Society  should   be   written;    it   has   however  been   found   on 
examination  that  the  records  are  so  scrappy  (and  indeed  in 
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parts  altogether  wanting)  that  it  would  be  practically  impossible 
to  obtain  a  continuous  history  of  the  different  phases  of 
musical  life  at  St  John's  College.  Perhaps  considering  the 
fact  that  several  successive  Societies  were  born,  languished 
a  few  years,  and  then  died  invariably  in  debt,  it  might  be  as 
well  not  to  disturb  the  veil  which  time  has  thrown  over  their 
memory. 


Reading  Room. 

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Theological  Society. 

President'-W,  J.  Caldwell.  Ex-president—H.  S.  WOkocks.  Treasurer^-^ 
P.  G.  Smith,    Secretary— 1^.  C.  Lees.     CommitUe-'C  P.  Way,  W.  NnUey, 

April  30.  A  Meeting  was  held  in  A.  R.  Hutton's  room's 
when  H.  Smith,  B.A.,  read  a  paper  on  '*  Corinth  in  the  first  two 
centuries,  A.D." 

May  14.  Held  in  P.  A.  Kingsford's  rooms.  A  paper  was 
read  by  Rev  H.  B.  Swete,  D.D.,  Regius  Professor  of  Divinity,  ou 
the  "  Expository  School  of  Antioch." 


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May  21.  In  W.  A.  Long's  rooms.  A.  J.  Binns  read  a  paper 
on  **  St  Chrysostom." 

June  6.  A  very  successful  social  evening  was  held  in 
C.  E.  Fynes-Clinton's  rooms. 

C.  J.  Eastwood  found  himself  unable  to  fulfil  his  promise 
of  a  paper  on  •*  Babylon "  owing  to  stress  of  work,  and  will 
read  his  paper  next  term. 

The  attendance  has  been  fairly  good.  The  officers  for  next 
term  are  as  follows. 

President— Y,  C.  Smith.  Ex- President— W .  J.  CaldwcU.  ffon.  Trea* 
furer—K.  C.  Lees.  Ifon.  Secretary— C.  P.  Way.  Committee—^.  A.  Long, 
A.  J.  Binns. 

A  JoHNiAN  Dinner. 

It  will^  be  remembered  that  some  years  ago  an  attempt  was 
made  to  institute  a  Johnian  Dinner  and  a  circular  was  sent  to  all 
members  on  the  College  boards.  The  replies  and  suggestions 
received  were  of  so  varied  a  character  that  the  Committee 
shrank  from  the  task  of  deciding  between  the  conflicting  views 
as  to  the  best  time  and  place.  But  the  idea  was  not  allowed  to 
die.  Last  year  between  twenty  and  thirty  past  and  present 
members  of  the  College  dined  together  in  London  on  the 
evening  of  the  'Sports/  with  the  Rev  R.  P.  Roseveare  in 
the  chair. 

This  year  between  forty  and  fifty,  summoned  by  the  energies 
of  our  first  boat  captain,  Mr  P.  E.  Shaw,  and  Mr  Prescott,  with 
Mr  R.  F.  Scott  in  the  chair,  dined  at  the  St  James'  Restaurants 

From  the  enthusiasm  with  which  the  idea  has  been  received 
it  is  believed  that  the  movement  will  grow  and  that  the  re-union 
will  become  an  annual  one. 

A  small  Committee  will  be  formed  next  October  Term  to 
make  arrangements  for  next  year,  and  we  hope  in  our  next 
number  to  be  able  to  give  more  definite  information  on  the 
subject. 

The  College  Mission  in  Walworth. 

The  Annual  Report  for  1890  has  been  issued  and  distributed. 
Thanks  to  the  action  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  in 
endowing  the  Church  of  the  Lady  Margaret  with  an  income  of 
£\^o  per  annum,  we  are  at  last  enabled  to  begin  to  make  some 
headway  against  the  remainder  of  our  debt.  We  shall  however 
still  require  all  the  monetary  support  that  we  have  hitherto 
received.  We  would  especially  appeal  to  those  going  down  for 
good  at  the  end  of  this  term  not  to  forget  us;  if  but  a  few 
of  them  would  send  us  annually  even  five  shillings  only,  we 
should  soon  have  a  very  fair  certain  income  and  could  launch 
out  into  new  and  very  necessary  works. 

The  parsonage  is  practically  finished,  and  it  is  hoped  that 
the  Missioner  will  move  in  during  the  month  of  July.    The 


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Junior  Mhsiotler  will  then  move  into  the  present  Missioner's 
house  in  Chatham  Street.  Thus  we  shall  concentrate  our 
forces. 

A  Concert  was  given  in  Sutton  Town  Hall  under  the 
auspices  of  Rev  J.  R.  C.  Gate,  vicar  of  Christchurch,  and 
C.  M.  Rice.  The  Concert  was  fairly  well  attended,  and  would 
have  realised  more  money  but  for  the  unfortunate  fact  that 
it  was  sandwiched  between  an  exhibition  and  a  bazaar.  We 
have  to  thank  Miss  £.  M.  Smith  and  Miss  Annie  Burt  of 
Sutton,  R.  Symes  of  Trinity  College,  the  Rev  J.  C.  R.  Gale, 
Messrs  John  Sanger,  Given- Wilson,  Collison,  Dinnis,  and  Rice 
of  St  John's  for  their  kindness  in  assisting  us. 

The  Committee  hope  that  the  coal-porters  will  be  gener- 
ously dealt  with  when  they  collect  old  clothes  for  the  Mission. 
The  quality  of  the  clothes  is  immaterial ;  the  value  of  them, 
in  the  winter  particularly,  is  remarkable;  boots  are  much 
appreciated. 

The  Missioners  hope  that  a  larger  number  of  visitors  will 
go  down  during  the  Long  Vacation  than  went  last  year ;  except 
during  the  month  of  July  there  will  now  be  plenty  of  room,  and, 
as  always,  a  warm  welcome  from  the  Missioners.  The  Com- 
mittee very  much  desire  now  to  find  a  B.A.  who  could  reside 
as  a  lay  worker  whilst  preparing  for  holy  orders  or  for  any 
profession :  there  is  not  wanting  some  hope  of  success  in  this 
direction. 

Scholarships  and  Open  Exhibitions  for  the  Year  1892. 

In  December  1891  there  will  be  open  for  competition  among 
students  who  have  not  commenced  residence  in  the  University 

Foundation  Scholarships  {2  of  /'So,  2  of  /"yo,  2  of  £s^) — 
Tenable  for  two  years,  and  the  tenure  may  be  prolonged  for 
two  years  more. 

Minor  Scholarships  (4  of  £$0) — For  two  years  or  till  the 
holder  is  elected  a  Foundation  Scholar. 

Exhibitions — Varying  in  number  and  value  according  to  the 
nierits  of  the  Candidates  and  the  number  of  vacancies  at  the 
time  of  the  election. 

Candidates  for  Scholarships  must  be  under  nineteen  years 
of  age.  I'his  restriction  does  not  apply  to  Candidates  for 
Exhibitions. 

Besides  Scholars  and  Exhibitioners  a  certain  number  of 
Sizars  may  be  elected  in  accordance  with  the  results  of  the 
Examinations. 

Candidates  who  acquit  themselves  with  credit  will  be  excused 
the  College  Entrance  Examination. 

Candidates  may  present  themselves  for  examination  in 
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In  Classics  the  Examination  will  include  four  papers  con- 
taining translation  from  Greek  and  Latin  into  English,  and 
Prose  and  Verse  composition.  Candidates  may  be  examined 
viva  voce,  and  may  also  be  required  to  write  a  short  English 
essay.  Candidates,  who  give  notice  of  their  desire  to  do  so, 
may  take  up  History  in  addition  to  Classics.  For  such  candidates 
two  papers  will  be  set,  (i)  General  and  Constitutional  Histoiy 
pf  England,  (2)  Historical  Essays. 

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